Legal department

Legal department overview
Most large organizations have a legal department in their organizational structure. Smaller companies may just keep a lawyer or a group of legal advisers on retainer, ensuring that they can get rapid legal advice when they need it. Legal department handles legal issues which company may face, ranging from outlining documents for employee to producing lawsuits from disappointed customers. Legal Department also provides legal training on a range of matters such as human rights, cultural rights, self-government, corporate maintenance, appeals and redress, and other legal matters.

Legal department mission and obligations
The mission of Legal department is providing effective and quality legal services to protect the interests of the company and to help it to accomplish corporate goals. Legal department strives to realize the mission by successfully carrying out the following obligations:

• Participate and manage on behalf of the company the litigation and adversary proceedings
• Process claims laid down against the company and its interests
• Serve as a legal advisor to company and staff
• Outline documents and legal instruments such as ordinances, resolutions, contracts, and deeds

Legal department in company structure
The close cooperation between Legal department and other company's units is caused by necessity to manage legal matters which company faces in everyday life. Contracts, agreements, invoices, bills and other documents are overseen by legal experts in order to create correct legal relationships with employees, contractors, suppliers, customers and government. Legal department takes the responsibility of representing company's interests in courts and protects rights of employees. Constant work of Legal department allows to keep employees and managers always informed of current workplace law, reducing the risk of potential suits.

Software system for Legal department
Law department has a specific work environment which reflects legal practice complexity. Legal department management system includes the capabilities that allow to organize the departmental workflow and create conditions for activity tracking and controlling. Such a system as VIP Task Manager provides these capabilities with powerful task management functionality and department database management. While most Legal department management systems (also know as case management or matter management systems) provide a pre-defined number of available fields for task configuration and management, VIP Task Manager stands out for a capability to add any number and type of customized fields in task lists. This software meets unique department practice needs and provides sufficient functionality to quickly begin with case management. In order to meet requirements and needs of Legal department, VIP Task Manager brings the following advantages:

• Management of to-do lists assigned to legal staff members
• Activity identification and tracking capabilities
• Scheduling of docket and using of calendar
• Creation of custom field to specify workflow in the department
• Cost allocation and budgeting per task
• Document and file management
• Task reporting and emailing
• Legal department staff
• Legal department functions and workflow
• Providing legal advice and guidance
• Prosecution of cases in courts and litigation management
• Documentation preparation and drafting