The legal department is, along with the accounting department, the main department that provides competent legal support for all company activities - both external and internal. Ideally, the entire document flow and, without fail, orders and orders issued by the management of the enterprise should go through it.
Instructions
Step 1
Please note that the main task to solve which the activities of the department will be aimed at is the creation, correct construction and debugging of a system for working with contracts, the development of competent standard contract forms that take into account the realities of the activities of this company, as well as its partners, suppliers and consumers of products, goods or services. In addition, the task of the department is the constant regulation of relations between employees and the employer, the development of statutory documents, collective and labor contracts, prompt amendments and adjustments to them.
Step 2
The task of the legal department is also to create a document management system and train the staff of the office or other persons assigned responsibility for it, in the correct work with correspondence. Its functions also include teaching all those involved in the basics of legal literacy to the extent that they are limited to the performance of their official duties. Also, lawyers develop job descriptions and are responsible for their relevance and updating.
Step 3
Pay particular attention to the creation of the contractual system and the terms of storage of contracts. It is logical if all of them in originals will be kept in the legal department. You need to think over a system that will allow all interested officials to get acquainted with them in a timely manner and receive copies of the contracts they need to work.
Step 4
When organizing a legal department in a given enterprise, familiarize yourself with the specifics of business processes, technologies and methods. Analyze it from the point of view of possible controversial issues, making claims. Study the experience of the lawyers of those companies that work in this industry.
Step 5
Consider control methods and distribute the competence and responsibility of the manager, persons, his substitutes and main departments: accounting, secretariat, personnel department, department heads, executive personnel. Conduct an audit and check the operability of the system you have implemented, the correctness of its functioning, the operability and efficiency of the interaction of all subsystems. Identify and eliminate any deficiencies found.
