In order to describe one and the same term there is used number of different words: consult, consulting, advising, advice or simple description of services extended. In the field of jurisprudence, such services are practically accommodated by everyone – jurisconsults, legal consultants and lawyers. Exactly, consulting is the “outlet” of legal knowledge, qualification and proficiency in practice. No one is interested how the expert transacts interpretation or analysis of legal norms (statutes) or the way he (she) frames logic connections and paths (chains) – when rendering the service it`s important to be capable to find solution for one or another problem, to give efficient advice, to get particular – desired – results. A lot of people don`t even think about the fact that composing of some kind of document or contract actually constitutes the final consulting resume: choosing type, form and structure, filling them with certain content, jurist applies in practice his (her) experience and understanding towards the problem. The extent of the work depends on globality and importance of the problem being solved: it can be simply to write a “good” contract or, the opposite, need to cogitate the best mode for materialization of intended course, aimed at attaining the desired results. As wider experience and higher qualification so smaller and rear are negligence and blanks in solving the problem. Not always the process of consulting results in a document or system of documents, however, composing document is impossible without consulting thus may lead to a formal performance having no law meaning. You must take into consideration that if set a task in the form like “compose sale-purchase contract”, you take the responsibility for its effectiveness on your own – but this being a jural division normally is what you are supposed to pay for: the eventual result to have legal power, legal effects and legal cause so obtaining defensive validity of rights and legal concerns. To avoid such re-laying of responsibility is possible if setting a task using form like “suggest alternates” or “which way (how)” and then, no matter you are choosing the variant, responsibility lays on the jurist as far as he (she) was supposed to suggest solutions minded their causal power, effectiveness and expedience. Similar recognition refers to all kinds of questions and problems set before the jurists and example with the sale-purchase contract is just understandable-to-all one.

So, where does the difference among salaried jurisconsult, legal consultant and lawyer hide if all of them accommodate in practice primarily similar range of services? The simplest answer: in quality and qualifications, is not always the right – everyone has obtained off-grade services done by firms and unions as well as irreprehensible and qualified work of the personnel. The choice of place of employment and grade (capacity) is personal choice and personality characteristics, so not always depends on principles of prestige and pay levels. The write answer is in purposes and functions:

• Jurisconsult (in ideal!!!) is named to protect interests of the company and capital owners. Corporate stability and profitability take a dominant lead for him (her). Guaranteeing of the concerns, provision of publicity and clarity, full and exhaustive protection of the organization and the capital are important especially for the jurisconsult. His (her) role is to provide and withstand a certain line of decisions on the level of practical realization as well as strategic and tactical decisions. That`s why the jurisconsult is capable of being independent enough in his (her) work.
• Jurist-consultant accommodates services which means that on one hand he (she) must be profitable and favourable for the client who ever the client is (i.e his (her) work may not be in the interest of the business owner; also, expert is supposed to give only advices relevant to the asserted claims, not to take a certain stance), and on the other hand, he (she) has to search optimal decision which secures out-of-court enforcement of rights (in ideal, consultant`s assistance is ended previous to judicial proceedings that are prerogative power of lawyers in world-wide practice). Surely, accommodating services suggests that the payment goes for a certain result which means that quality must be above the average, possibility to bargain increased liability just for quality and promptitude because of the contractual relations also occurs.
• Lawyer is named to accommodate jural services and to provide judicial defence of clients` rights and legal concerns. In distinction from the consultants, he (she) is always certified and apart from penalties he (she) is facing disciplinary punishment by bar association if rudely breaks. The Russian reality, where is being allowed participating any kind of representatives in judicial proceedings, seriously levels focus and differences in lawyers` and legal consultants` acting.

In what is the significance of the consulting in the field of accommodation of legal services? The answer consist in the fact that universal jurists – general-service experts in all branches of law – simply don`t exist. Having personnel jurists (jurisconsults), it`s better to employ experts-generalists or experts in a certain branch (in case when the company sets a great number of relations in a particular field: for example, if all the tax claims are brought to the court, it is needed expert in law of taxation respectively). As a consequence, at a point, there would be needed higher-grade expert or experts in other branches of law or experts working over the intersection of law and other social-economic sciences, cases of multidirectional interests of capital owners and conflicts of interests among business executives not included. Here is the exact point where embark jurists, working in the field of accommodating services: consultants and lawyers. The concern of their activity is next: they specialize in certain branches which is possible due to deficiency of routine and presence of great number of clients, so they can intensively advance in knowledge, expertise and skills. Their services are essential and worthfull because of them being simultaneously external experts, experienced specialists and advisors.