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Professional Duty and Responsibility of Company Lawyer

Company lawyers are one of the most numerous legal professions in Croatia whose members are perceived as highly professional, often with very profound legal knowledge in many different fields of law. Company lawyers usually work in-house or for a law firm, and may have to represent a client in court. Company lawyers in Croatia are not part of the Croatian Bar and Law Society, but can't also choose to become members of the association of in-house legal advisors. They generally review and draft legal paperwork for businesses. Company lawyers are attorneys who specialize in business law. They might work on negotiating and drafting contracts, reviewing employment agreements or company mergers. Some companyl lawyers work for a law firm and represent many clients, while others are employed by a company and represent its legal interests exclusively. Wide legal knowledge that company lawyers frequently have is a result of a diversity of tasks they are confronted with throughout their professional life and great understanding of the business processes taking place in the companies they work for. Company lawyers have a duty to provide competent representation, and the failure to observe deadlines or conduct thorough research is considered a breach of ethics. They are under a strict duty of confidentiality to keep information received in the course of their representations secret. This paper briefly deals with the main challenges which are placed before company lawyers in Croatia with the accent on diversity and complexity of their tasks, as well as with the issue of their intellectual independence.

company lawyer, General Data Protection Regulation, independence, professional duty

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