Corporate legal affairs refer to professionals who are employed by specific companies and enterprises, have rich legal knowledge, and are responsible for handling litigation and non-litigation legal affairs. Corporate legal practice is different from practicing lawyers. Corporate legal affairs belong to company employees and serve specific companies in accordance with labor laws and labor contracts. Practicing lawyers must practice in law firms and provide legal services to different enterprises or other organizations through legal service contracts. Corporate legal officers are generally proficient in legal knowledge and familiar with corporate management. They mainly focus on the company's internal governance, transaction model design and decision-making, and legal risk management and control, and serve as a bridge between the company and external lawyers. Practicing lawyers are skilled in handling various specific litigation and non-litigation legal matters. 2. The value of corporate legal affairs The core value of corporate legal affairs: corporate legal affairs guide contract performance, handle disputes, etc. by improving management systems, business processes, participating in transaction model design, tax planning, business negotiations, participating in decision-making, drafting and reviewing contracts and other legal documents, etc. This method helps companies prevent legal risks, reduce losses, and improve business performance. 3. Misunderstandings about company legal affairs The first is, “Legal personnel are litigants!” This is the most common misunderstanding among laymen about legal personnel. A market economy is a legal economy, and the survival and development of an enterprise cannot be separated from the law. In addition to litigation, every company has a large number of non-litigation businesses, such as financing investments, employee recruitment, procurement of goods and services, product sales, environmental protection, intellectual property protection, tax planning, etc. All these require professional legal personnel to participate in model design and business execution, improve profit levels, and identify, evaluate and prevent legal risks. A company that is busy litigating all day is not a good company, and legal staff that are busy litigating all day are also incompetent legal staff. Excellent legal personnel should put preventive work in front of them to help companies reduce legal disputes and strive to avoid lawsuits. Second, "Legal staff always tell me the opposite!" Many managers often encounter legal staff raising objections to their proposed documents or transactions, which leads to project delays or even cancellations, or legal staff reveal their management deficiencies. It was not enough for him to "lose face", so he hated the legal staff with "itching to the roots of his teeth". This is also one of the more common misunderstandings. The reasons may be two-fold. First, some legal personnel need to improve their own abilities - just talking about problems without solving them is risky and cannot be done, but they cannot propose how to make it feasible. For projects that are really unfeasible, there is no Communicate well with managers in a timely manner, which makes managers disgusted and think that legal affairs are "very annoying!" The second is that managers themselves have wrong stance or are narrow-minded. Some managers blindly advance in pursuit of performance, regardless of risks and the long-term interests of the company. Some managers lack risk awareness and have no ability to identify and evaluate risks, but they are also very immodest and cannot listen to objections, so they cannot accept them. Diverse perspectives from legal practitioners. Thirdly, “Legal staff as a whole are always chattering and quarreling, and they will talk nonsense!” It is the professional characteristic of legal staff to love to discuss (or argue). Because law is a general social science, unlike natural science, where one is one and the other is two, and black is black and white. There are many angles of understanding in social science, and there are many ambiguities. Everyone may have his or her own understanding. This is due to the fact that everyone has different knowledge, different experiences, different positions and different ways of thinking. Moreover, the law is mainly used to "wait for disputes and settle disputes." Of course, the parties to the dispute will choose to interpret the law in a way that is beneficial to them. Therefore, the study and understanding of the law and the identification of facts require discussion and debate, which is also an inevitable need for identifying and assessing legal risks. Discussion and debate are how legal professionals work and learn. One of the most basic skill requirements for legal personnel is to persuade others, including persuading managers to take measures to prevent legal risks, persuading clients to accept contract terms, persuading judges to accept arguments, etc. Only through discussion and debate can complete knowledge be achieved. It may only be a matter of "one or two sentences" for legal personnel to use their lips, but being able to say the most appropriate "one or two sentences" requires years of persistent study and practice of the law. 4. Corporate legal affairs should correct misunderstandings about themselves 1. Legal personnel are not the embodiment of law and justice! Legal personnel are internal staff of an enterprise and serve the enterprise. Therefore, the starting point and end point of thinking about problems is to safeguard the legitimate interests of the enterprise. Therefore, corporate legal affairs should use the law with the goal of maximizing the company's interests. When the company faces any risks and disputes, the company is the party that bears the profits and losses, not the judge who mediates the adjudication. Therefore, legal personnel must be the spokesperson and defender of the company's interests, and they must not be angry at book deals! 2. Legal personnel are not the mouthpiece of the law! Legal personnel should work hard to manage corporate legal risks, help companies reduce losses, and improve business performance. That is to say, in addition to telling managers how the law stipulates, they must also have a thorough understanding of the business characteristics of the industry in which the company operates, and have a relatively in-depth study of financial and tax knowledge, so that they can construct corporate governance models, innovatively design transaction models, Participate in business negotiations, make contributions in tax planning, strengthen legal risk management and control, and solve specific problems in business operations. Tags:.