Attorney vs legal consultant

Differences between attorney and legal consultant duties and responsibilities

Attorney example responsibilities.

• Manage the death administration department with approximately thirty-five plus estates through trust administration, Medicaid estate recovery or probate.
• Respond to subpoenas and pleadings in litigation and in regulatory inquiries and investigations involving corporate clients.
• Represent employers before federal administrative agencies, including inspections, administrative litigation, court-enforcement actions and appeals.
• Litigate personal injury, and general liability matters, worker's compensation, estate planning and litigation, environmental liability litigation.
• Create and give a presentation regarding non- attorney ethics to division staff.
• Comply with all agency policies and procedures, including those pertaining to ethics and integrity
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Legal consultant example responsibilities.

• Manage day-to-day legal affairs of NYSE list airline.
• Experience includes analysis and advice regarding claims relate to exotic securities agreements.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.
• Audit key financial and claim-relate regulatory processes including Medicare fraud.
• Conduct discovery: documents productions, interrogatories, witness depositions.
• Demonstrate expertise in preparing documents and discovery responses relate to interrogatories, request for admissions, and request for production.