In addition to the compliance of the companies with the legislation, the activities of the legal units are also required to be audited. Legal audits are of great importance as well as managerial and financial audits in companies.
Legal services also include law of obligations, commercial law, criminal law, Arbitration, labor law, Smuggling, Tax, Administration and so on. With the introduction of a wide variety of fields that require specialization such as such as, companies, legal departments are mostly insufficient in terms of the number of experts in their field and they also carry out their legal processes by obtaining services from law firms or lawyers. It is necessary to make legal processes more efficient and systematic in operational terms, to make cost-benefit analysis in processes carried out by hiring an external lawyer, to save time and cost with systemic improvements, to give legal units more objective and realistic goals and to make performance evaluations.
In the processes carried out by the internal legal units of the companies, it is necessary to determine where the legal unit is located in the organization and the expectations of the company top management from the legal unit, the job descriptions of the legal unit employees and the procedures regarding the legal processes.
Contract management process: Contract approval and follow-up mechanisms and follow-up of the right and timely management of the institution’s rights and obligations, Expense management process: Attorney and lawsuit costs approval and follow-up mechanisms, Case management process: Litigation processes, enforcement follow-up, appeal and reconciliation processes, Opinion Process: The recording and follow-up processes of the opinions given by the legal unit must be controlled and reported. In the legal processes carried out by hiring a lawyer from outside, different from the processes carried out by the legal units of the companies, the contracts signed between the contracted lawyers and the company, the power of attorney, the costs of the contracted lawyers, the opinions given by the contracted lawyers and the litigation processes and the recruitment and performance criteria of the contracted lawyers a attention should be paid. Cost controls: Wage controls: Contract and power of attorney control: Controls such as litigation control should be done and reported.
