For any company, when faced with the need for legal services, the most important thing is to choose a suitable law firm, and then choose the right lawyers. However, there are a large number of uneven legal service institutions in the market today. Taking Shanghai as an example, there are more than 1,600 law firms in operation and more than 25,000 practicing lawyers. How to choose a law firm that truly meets the needs of enterprises is particularly important. Generally speaking, when choosing a partner law firm and lawyer, enterprises need to consider the following aspects:

1. The overall strength of the firm and its lawyers team

Since the disputed cases usually involve multiple legal relationships, whether the law firm has practical experience in multiple professional fields and whether it can deal with the relevant issues of the enterprise efficiently and timely is particularly important. Due to the small number of practitioners in many law firms, when the work of various clients is backlogged to the host lawyers, often due to the limitations of time and personal experience, the host lawyers can not fully solve the problems for clients. In some medium-sized and above law firms (considering the current situation of law firms in the country, law firms currently have about 50 practitioners can generally be considered medium-sized law firms), the work and resources of different lawyers can be flexibly deployed. Therefore, it is generally more beneficial to choose a law firm with medium or higher business scale and sufficient practitioners for the effective solution of corporate legal problems. However, it is especially emphasized that some small law firms take the professional way, only in-depth research and operation in a certain field, if the enterprise needs only a specific field of legal services, there is no need to tangle with the size of the law firm, the appropriate one is the best.

2. Whether the law firm and lawyers have similar cases

For enterprises, the most important thing is that the law firm can solve its legal problems quickly and efficiently, rather than slowly fumbling and stumbling to deal with specific cases, so whether the law firm has experience in handling such cases in the past is particularly important. When communicating with the law firm, if it can come up with similar cases handled in the past, then the enterprise can naturally give full trust; If a law firm cannot produce its own similar cases, but can sort out a high-quality search report on similar cases and give the enterprise corresponding legal operation suggestions, then the law firm is also worthy of enterprise consideration.

3. whether the law firm and lawyers understand business operations and business models

Many times, some inexperienced lawyers often provide enterprises with ideas from the perspective of the most compliance, requiring enterprises to do this and that, and putting forward a lot of unrealistic requirements for enterprises to rectify. In fact, each industry has its own particularity, such as the construction engineering industry there is a large number of qualification borrowing or affiliations, lawyers can not just to pursue compliance and ignore the commercial. Every problem has its rationality. For enterprises, sometimes the development of some businesses may indeed face certain legal risks, but from a business perspective, enterprises may gain greater benefits from business activities that are not completely standardized, even far exceeding the cost of legal risks they face. In this case, what lawyers should do is to actively promote the transaction, ensure the enterprise to obtain appropriate profits, while minimizing the legal risk of the enterprise, assist the enterprise to make a full and complete response plan, and ensure the realization of the maximum interests of the enterprise. From this perspective, law firms and lawyers who understand their operations and business models, and who have primarily served companies in the past, are better able to deal with the needs of companies.

4. Social reputation of the firm and its lawyers

The law industry often has a word of mouth, a good word of mouth is not formed in a day or two, often law firms and lawyers over the years of painstaking management and formation of important intangible assets, with long-term development goals of law firms and lawyers are generally more cherish their own "feathers", not for the immediate small profits and damage the core interests of clients. Enterprises in the choice of law firms, lawyers, can be seriously concerned about the "word of mouth", in addition to network search, you can also communicate with some brothers who have received similar legal services, from the side to understand the professional standards of lawyers and law firms, professionalism, etc., so as to better make the final choice.