Legal department staff

Legal department staff members
The staff members of Legal department work on protection of company's interests and creation of conditions for robust business development. Typically staff members of Legal department are qualified lawyers and their assistants. They are subordinated to Department Manager.

Short overview of Legal department staff responsibilities

Department Manager
This is a person who represents the department, manages activities of legal staff and keeps control over departmental workflow.  Manager of Legal department holds meetings with upper management with purpose to provide legal advice on handling litigation and legal matters.  Manager develops and updates policies and procedures to meet legal requirements. This person also manages complex legal projects and reviews legal documentation.

Lawyer (Legal Advisor)
Legal Advisers play one of the most important roles in Legal department. They give advice on product development, marketing and promotions. For example, before marketing a new product, marketing manager often needs to talk with Legal department to discuss potential legal issues.  In order to give exhaustive legal advice, Department Manager charges lawyers with duties of examining legal issues and checking legislation points. Lawyers also provide advice in the filed of discrimination in hiring practices, sexual harassment and employment.

Legal Assistant (Paralegal)
Legal assistants generally support the work of Lawyers in all fields of scheduling, holding preliminary meetings with clients, researching legal precedents, preparing everything required for court cases, and drafting legal briefs. Usually Legal Assistants do not possess any legal matter by themselves but have some experience in the field of law so they become eligible to assist Legal Advisor.

Designing of Legal department resource list
The employees of Legal Department provide a wide range of legal services and consultation, including: the litigation and adversary proceedings, protection of company's interests in courts, document drafting, and others. The complex of duties and the range of the departmental functions require designing of a staff list. This is a list of all employees of Legal department with detailed information about duties and roles. The way to arrange staff members of Law department into a common staff list is to use Resource List view of VIP Task Manager.

This tool allows to register each employee in detailed profile. The profile includes such sections as 'Name', 'Job Title', 'E-mail', 'Telephone', and other. Department Manager can use Roles Panel to configure employee access to tasks and documents of the department depending on employee's duties and position. Roles Panel also helps establish collaboration between legal staff members and determine subordination.VIP Task Manager allows to increase effectiveness of staff management and reduce costs.

• >> 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