Legal adviser vs staff attorney

Differences between legal adviser and staff attorney duties and responsibilities

Legal adviser example responsibilities.

• Prepare and distribute payroll manage daily office operations and equipment and maintain supplies for office to run effectively.
• Draft and negotiate business-to-business SaaS contracts, non-disclosure agreements, and vendor agreements for domestic and international software platform transactions.
• Aid in drafting arbitration reports, discovery requests, and responses to discovery requests.
• Monitor issues surrounding corruption, cyber-crime and arbitration.
• Conduct legal analysis of confidential pending international corporate environmental liability litigation.

Staff attorney example responsibilities.

• Generate an internal memorandum exploring VAWA and special immigrant juvenile cases that lead to the establishment of a new clinic program.
• Provide statewide training for attorneys and advocates on education law and also responsible for major impact education litigation and appeals.
• Create and conduct workshops on e-discovery, privilege, FMLA, ADA, and FLSA
• Conduct internal FLSA (wage and hour) compliance and re-classification audits for pre-complaint resolution.
• General practice attorney handling primarily bankruptcy, domestic relations and criminal cases, preparation of wills and trusts and probate.
• Draft wills, powers of attorney, probate estate administration filings, divorce filings, caregiver contracts, and property deeds.
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