Starting with its definition, legal consultancy involves providing advice to individuals, institutions, or companies on contracts, legal regulations, and statutory matters; organising the lawful activities and legal standing of the institution or individual; conducting case and investigation management; and, where possible, preventing situations that may give rise to disputes.
What is Individual Legal Consultancy?
It should be noted that all legal disputes involving individuals fall within the scope of individual legal consultancy, and the legal consultant provides services to individuals for the resolution of such disputes.
The services provided within this scope include:
- Clarifying all legal matters covered by contracts to be entered into,
- Informing clients about the potential consequences of the legal steps they are to take,
- Following and intervening in all legal processes that may arise, such as litigation, enforcement proceedings, and complaints.
What is Corporate Legal Consultancy?
It should be noted that companies conducting their day-to-day operations in compliance with legal rules requires that their need for legal knowledge and services be met on a daily basis rather than weekly or monthly. In addition to this, full compliance with legal rules in the course of business operations is considerably more economical and practical than the alternative — namely, a dispute arising from non-compliance and being resolved through judicial proceedings. This gives rise to the need for a legal consultant within the company.
Legal consultancy functions as a service unit within companies; it provides legal advice to the company’s management and ensures that all of the company’s activities are conducted within the bounds of the law.
Accordingly, the duties of a legal consultant include:
- Company incorporation, dissolution, merger, or acquisition,
- Capital increases or reductions,
- Providing legal advice and support on statutory matters such as human resources, contracts, licences, declarations, notices, agreements, title deeds, and sales,
- Providing advice on tax matters and legal issues,
- Conducting follow-up on criminal cases,
- Conducting follow-up on legal proceedings and applications,
- Collaborating with management on the development of effective defence strategies, and carrying out similar tasks.
What Are the Job Description and Responsibilities of a Legal Consultant?
In essence, the job descriptions of legal consultants are set out in the internal guidelines of the relevant institutions. In general terms, however, they include:
- Following up on cases and applications and ensuring their conclusion,
- Informing management about current, newly enacted, or forthcoming legal regulations and, where necessary, providing training to departments on relevant legal matters,
- Developing effective defence strategies,
- Drafting contracts, declarations, and other relevant legal documents,
- Researching risk factors relating to management’s business decisions and transactions,
- Managing personnel attached to the legal consultancy unit within the institution,
- Taking preventive legal measures against disputes and providing opinions aimed at resolving conflicts through settlement,
- Conducting negotiations with other legal consultants, public authorities, and courts, and staying informed of developments,
- Reviewing, assessing, and reporting on legal documents such as contracts, agreements, and title deeds,
- In the private sector, researching and analysing the legal issues of the company; or, in the case of a public institution, those of the relevant public body.
What Qualities Should a Legal Consultant Possess?
First and foremost, it should be emphasised that the qualities a legal consultant should possess are similar to the fundamental qualities required of any legal professional. These qualities may be summarised as follows:
- Being open to learning and self-development,
- Demonstrating organised and detail-oriented working skills,
- Being proficient in interpersonal relations,
- Demonstrating the ability to cope with stress,
- Possessing the ability to generate solutions in the face of problems,
- Having a thorough command of legal knowledge,
- Possessing managerial and leadership qualities.
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