Information systems for the legal work of organisations

“The Kremlin House of Justice” collects enquiries of natural persons, directs them to advocates as natural persons and provides organisational accompaniment of private life. It is a client contour and a contour of primary communication, not a corporate legal system.

“IT Legal” has a different object: informational support of an organisation’s legal work (records of instructions, documents, time-limits, roles of staff). Here the “client” is a legal entity or an advocates’ formation, not a citizen choosing defence counsel by assessment and reviews.

Mixing the contours would mislead: an organisation does not “choose an advocate from a shop-window of private persons”, and a private person does not receive a “corporate subscription of a legal department”. Contracts, personal data and the regime of secrecy differ in the two contours.

“IT Legal” does not practise advocacy, does not replace the customer’s legal department and does not guarantee the outcome of court cases. Connection to the information system does not confer advocate status on staff of the customer organisation.

The contour is not a shop-window for collecting citizens’ enquiries and does not distribute such enquiries among advocates. Those acts belong exclusively to The Kremlin House of Justice.

What follows is the purpose of the contour at the level of logic and limits. A detailed catalogue of modules, connection charges and the manner of trial operation will be published after a separate statement by the operator: this page must not promise functions that have not yet been introduced into a contract.

In the logic of the organisational contour the following are contemplated: records of legal tasks and time-limits; access control among staff; storage of documents in a regime agreed with the customer; alignment with internal rules of the legal department; the possibility of commissioning accompaniment of implementation — not “conducting the company’s cases in place of the customer’s lawyers”.

The cabinet of “The Kremlin House of Justice” may technically rest on the same information means as “IT Legal”. That does not merge the two products into one contract and does not give an organisation access to enquiries of private persons.

External state information systems (court card-indexes, reporting delivery services) are connected only where there is a legal basis and the conditions of the rightholder of the information. A promise of “direct access to any authority” without a contract with the operator of the relevant system is impermissible.

A foreign legal entity may request informational accompaniment of its Russian activity (a branch, a representative office, court cases in the Russian Federation). Application of foreign law in the courts of the Russian Federation follows the conflict rules of the Civil Code and the procedural codes; a record-keeping system does not choose the applicable law for a party.

Representation in Russian courts in matters where the law requires an advocate is not replaced by connection to IT Legal.

The composition of particular modules, the manner of trial operation, liability for safekeeping of information and the price of connection are not invented on this page. They will form a separate contract and separate sections of the site after the operator has stated the object as fully as the contour for private persons has been stated.

Until that publication, IT Legal on the public site means: a separate contour for organisations; a prohibition on mixing it with selection of an advocate for a citizen; readiness to receive an organisation’s enquiry about needs in recording legal work.