The internal and external activities of any company must comply with the law, only in this case the company will not spend the resulting profit on the payment of various kinds of fines and compensations. The company's activity within the framework of the law, taking into account the current changes in regulatory acts, is possible if there is an in-house lawyer in the staff.
The main tasks of a lawyer in the company
In a company with any form of ownership, the main task of a full-time lawyer is to provide high-quality and prompt support of its activities in order to timely identify, prevent and minimize possible risks. Moreover, if the company is small and cannot afford to maintain a legal department, in which each employee would specialize in his area of law, a full-time lawyer should be free to navigate in labor, tax and civil legislation.
That is why the duties assigned to a lawyer will largely depend on whether he is the only lawyer working for a given company. In this case, it is advisable for a manager who does not want to keep many lawyers on the staff from time to time to involve specialists working in law firms and specializing in narrow areas of law.
What should be the responsibilities of a lawyer
Without the participation of a lawyer, no documents should be developed, both constituent and internal regulatory and organizational and administrative documents. A lawyer must take part in the activities of the enterprise literally from the first days of its organization, participating in the process of registering a legal entity. Subsequently, with his participation, changes are made to the constituent documents.
The duties of a lawyer include providing the company with regulatory legal documents governing its activities, as well as maintaining and recording the bases of regulatory legal acts, tracking and introducing all current changes in legislation. He must check for compliance with legal norms all draft orders, instructions, regulations and other documents of a legal nature, which will then be signed by the head.
An important part of a lawyer's job is contractual work. A lawyer must choose the optimal form of contractual relations, develop draft contracts and check for compliance with the law those projects that are submitted by counterparties for signature to the head. The lawyer also participates in the resolution of claims and disagreements, as well as in court sessions, including arbitration. He will have to prepare applications for obtaining permits and licenses, special permits for the implementation of the company's activities. In addition, he will be responsible for resolving labor law issues: hiring, transferring and dismissing employees, labor disputes, and so on. Employees of the enterprise will contact him for advice on a variety of legal issues.
