I. What is legal advice?
1. The concept of legal advice
What is legal advice? And how should we properly understand it in this context? Accordingly, it can be understood that legal advice is advice to create internal rules and regulations for an enterprise, as well as control the enterprise’s operations to ensure compliance with law, helping the enterprise operate legally and eliminate legal risks in its business activities.
Legal advice service is a service that is provided by external law firms or by the enterprise’s own legal department, offering legal advice for the enterprise.
Legal advice involves the following work:
- Advising on legal regulations related to enterprise;
- Advising and addressing enterprise’s legal questions related to its operation;
- Advising and addressing enterprise's legal questions related to labor (employee), including: social insurance, salary schemes, evaluation and follow-up (reporting increases or decreases in employee); maternity benefits; and advising on resolving labor disputes within the enterprise and between the enterprise and its employees;
- Advising on management, registration and protection of the enterprise’s intellectual property rights;
- Advising on business strategy and providing legal solution for the enterprise to consider;
- Advising on resolving internal disputes in the enterprise: disputes related to labor contracts, salaries, insurance; disputes between contributing members or between shareholders, etc.;
- Advising on resolving disputes with State agencies.
- In addition, advising on other related issues.
II. When legal advice is needed for the enterprise
As we know, legal advice is a necessary and extremely important activity. But do you know when an enterprise needs legal consulting? Below is the answer provided by NPLaw to help you better understand this type of activity:
During business operations, enterprises frequently need to review and sign contracts with partners, as well as handle legal issues arising from environment, salaries, bonuses, etc. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to have a team of professional legal advisors to better handle these issues.
In practical operations of an enterprise, many legal issues frequently arise, such as:
- Negotiating and signing contracts;
- Issues related to internal management;
- Disputes regarding intellectual property, industrial property rights, trade secrets, etc.;
- Disputes with customers;
- Other criminal issues such as fraud, embezzlement, etc.
At this time, if there is no professional legal advisor, it is very difficult for the enterprise to handle incorrectly or insufficiency. Therefore, to have these tasks handled quickly and effectively, the enterprise needs to proactively seek legal advisors for advice on necessary issues.
Besides, for many small and medium-sized enterprises, with limited costs and human resources, there is another option which is to use legal advice services, also known as external legal services.
III. Benefits of legal advice
For the enterprise, having skilled and experienced legal advisors or finding reputable legal advice service providers will make operation much more effective because:
- Legal advice is implemented by a team of experts led by highly qualified lawyers in many fields, who can easily handle complex issues arising within the company. Moreover, experienced lawyers and consultants will help the enterprise maintain an advantage in the market, as well as minimize the risks they may pose when encountering sudden and complex legal issues.
- When receiving legal advice, enterprises will be able to quickly, decisively and in-depth resolve legal issues.
For enterprises that have already built their own legal departments, seeking legal advice services is a support, enhancement and further improvement in terms of legal matters when conducting business activities.
IV. Why use legal advice services?
As society always forwards to comprehensively develop, the establishment of organizations and enterprises is inevitable. In reality, many companies still hesitate between building an internal legal department or using an external legal service.
There are also many different viewpoints on these issues, depending on the company’s culture environment. However, NPLaw believes that building an internal legal department for an enterprise is important but also very costly and time-consuming in terms of organizing, maintaining, and handling tasks such as recruitment, training and benefits. For small companies, having an in-house legal department may not be necessary, and there may be too little work to keep the legal staff busy, making it hard to minimize costs. Moreover, newly hired staff may lack the experience needed to handle complex legal issues, and in many cases, they still have to hire external lawyers to resolve them.
Therefore, using legal advice services is an optimal solution for enterprises, overcoming all the drawbacks of an internal legal department. Besides, enterprises do not need to worry about the performance of their employees. With a team of reputable an experienced lawyers, enterprises can resolve issues quickly and effectively, ensuring that their operations comply with the law and avoiding unnecessary risks.
V. Reputable legal advice services today
Legal advice services are provided by law firms based on service packages to support enterprises in all legal areas. The legal advice service providers will act as an external legal department for the enterprise, ensuring the highest legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise.
To find a reputable legal advice service today, consider the following criteria: the service is provided by a legitimate organization with a legal license; a team of professional lawyers and well-trained staff; a thorough, flexible and efficient service process; and reasonable pricing.
Thus, choosing a reputable legal advice service today depends on various factors, including cultural environment and assessment of each enterprise.
As a highly regarded unit in advising and supporting legal issues, NPLaw provides comprehensive legal services for enterprises at cost-effective prices and best quality. NPLaw is a reputable law firm with a team of highly qualified and experienced lawyers who will accompany your enterprise through various legal tasks.
NPLaw is a law firm specializing in providing legal advice services. With a team of lawyers trained professionally in both professional ethics and expertise, we are committed to providing clients with the highest quality service with professionalism and efficiency. For any cooperation inquiries, please contact us.
