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How to run a business legally? Contracts with customers and typical problems of their preparation. How, when and why to sue? Common legal mistakes freelancers make and what to do about them.

Freelancing as a way of doing business for some specialists is a temporary stage when they escaped from the "yoke" of the employer, but have not yet created their own business. For others, a kind of permanent state when a person is least of all bound by any obligations and tries to concentrate on the essence of the work performed.

Most of the freelancers I interviewed and know, who have tasted exorbitant freedom from any formalities and obligations, make a lot of legal mistakes that complicate their “free swimming”, force them to return to an uncomfortable office or suffer losses and disappointments. But there are also those who have made freelancing their business, have learned how to search for and properly formalize relationships with customers, have experience in litigation and, through trial and error, have found how to make their freelancing predictable and secure enough. In this article, I will talk about legal problems freelancers and how these problems can and should be dealt with.

How to do business legally

It is no secret that the state requires you to decide whether you are running a business, are an employee under an employment contract, or, remaining an ordinary citizen, only occasionally provide services under a civil law contract. Entrepreneurial activity, that is, activity for the systematic extraction of profit, can be carried out essentially in two forms: the creation legal entity(most often it is an LLC) or registration as an individual entrepreneur (IP). Russian law classifies freelancing as entrepreneurial activity no matter how much you get: 1 thousand rubles or 200 thousand rubles a day or a year.

If you provide services systematically (twice or more during the year), then you are an entrepreneur and the usual "earthly laws" apply to you.

It does not matter where and with what services, devices or applications you carry out such activities. I don’t want to complicate things, but even when providing services through a site located outside of Russia, you are subject to both the laws of the country where the server is physically located and Russian laws as long as you remain a tax resident and citizen of the Russian Federation.

For the lack of registration as a company or individual entrepreneur, there is administrative responsibility from 500 rubles to 2 thousand rubles. In essence, this is not much money, but the procedure for bringing to responsibility is pretty exhausting on the nerves. The prosecutor's office can file a lawsuit in court to prohibit you from conducting such activities at all until you obtain an entrepreneurial status. And cases of this kind are becoming more and more frequent. The prosecutor's office, as the “eye of the sovereign”, is called upon to ensure that there are no such violations of the law.

If you conduct business “on a grand scale” and this caused large damage to citizens, organizations or the state, or is associated with the receipt of proceeds from the sale of goods or services on a large scale, i.e. from 1.5 million rubles, then such actions can be qualified as a crime under Part 1 of Art. 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation " Illegal business". Responsibility is different: a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or up to 6 months of arrest.

In practice, almost any citizen can now register a company, and even more so an individual entrepreneur. There are many services that allow you to do this. Some banks, along with opening an account, offer this service for free. The cost of registering a turnkey LLC with the payment of state duty ranges from 5 to 12 thousand rubles. To register as an individual entrepreneur, you just need to fill out a form with your passport data, which can even be submitted online at tax office. The state duty for registering an individual entrepreneur is only 800 rubles. The registration period in both cases is approximately 6-7 calendar days, and this deadline is indeed respected. So why take the risk when starting a business is so easy?

Whom to be: LLC or IP?

Perhaps the most common question asked by novice entrepreneurs is what is better to register: an LLC or an individual entrepreneur? Practice shows that the vast majority of freelancers either do not register at all, or register as individual entrepreneurs. You need to understand that not a single really serious customer will send money to a freelancer “on a card”. This fact is pushing many to open IP.

An important advantage of registering as an individual entrepreneur is that all the money received by an individual entrepreneur can be freely withdrawn and spent, because this is his personal money as an entrepreneur, as a citizen. Even taxes from this amount, the IP should not pay immediately, but only at the beginning of the next quarter. It is not so easy to legally withdraw money in a company, and even more so to do it “for free” without paying taxes .

The vast majority of activities that freelancers do in Russia do not require any permission or license. This is also true when you happen to OKVED codes Specify the licensed type of activity.

The principle is simple: until you have engaged in a licensed activity, you do not need to draw up anything additionally .

The taxation of organizations and individual entrepreneurs is the same, i.е. you can engage in a type of activity that falls under the “imputation”, and be at least an individual entrepreneur, at least an LLC. The same applies to the choice of "simplified", which can be in the amount of both 6% of income and 15% of income, reduced by the amount of expenses. The latter option is not very suitable for the service sector, as it is beneficial for those who have heavy expenses, those of which the Tax Code of the Russian Federation allows to take into account. Usually this is a trade where there is a significant markup on the goods sold.

We form relationships with customers

Such well-known exchanges for freelancers in Russia, such as, for example, freelance.ru and fl.ru. offer services to control the timing of the order and guarantee payment for the freelancer. The service monitors the deadline for the execution of the order, captures its essence, which is agreed upon at the initial stage between the freelancer and the customer. Legally, this is the same contract that is automatically concluded between the customer and the freelancer, where the freelance exchange acts as an intermediary agent between them.

Not everyone knows, but in the agreement that you “sign”, agreeing to the terms of work through fl.ru and freelance.ru, it is written that, unless otherwise agreed between the freelancer and the customer, all exclusive rights to the created intellectual property are transferred to the customer at the time of acceptance of the order.

It is important for the customer to indicate in the task what really needs to be obtained as a result, and for the freelancer himself to agree only on what he can accomplish within the agreed time frame.

All interaction takes place on the assignment page, where the customer and the freelancer exchange messages, questions, developed materials, and finished files. It is the timing of the placement of such materials, their compliance with the task that determines whether the freelancer will receive his money if it comes to arbitration.

This is a service that fl.ru provides for Safe Deal users when the customer does not accept the order or the freelancer does not transfer the result of his work to the customer, which allows resolving the dispute between the parties to the transaction. Arbitration can either return the prepayment for all or part of the order to the customer, or pay it to the freelancer or make a partial payment (refund) if it establishes that the work was not completed in full, of poor quality or not on time.

The cost of services to control the timing of the order and guarantee payment for a freelancer ranges from 5% to 14.9% of the transaction. To the expenses of customers, you need to add a commission of payment systems for depositing money in the amount of about 6% and for withdrawing money by a freelancer in the amount of 2-3.5%. If the customer is a legal entity or individual entrepreneur, then the costs are simply the cost of a payment order in the amount of 10-20 rubles.

But freelancers do not always find customers through freelance exchanges, and some simply do not want to overpay for such services, they want to get paid immediately, so they most often do not conclude any contracts at all.

What to do if there is no contract in the usual sense, and the client refuses to pay for the work? Your further actions depend on how exactly you formalized your agreements with the customer:

1.There is a signed contract, in which the terms of reference say what and in what time you must do. Negotiate with the customer and, if you do not achieve a result, go to court with a lawyer.

2.The contract with all technical specifications was signed "via the Internet", i.e. each scanned his signed version of the contract and sent it to each other. The court may recognize such an agreement as concluded if you can prove that:

sent the contract to the customer and received a signed scan from him too;

the customer partially paid under the contract (the details of your contract are indicated in the payment order, and the customer will not be able to bring another copy of the contract that you “also” signed);

the customer gave you something that could only be with him (measurements of buildings, technical documentation, restricted information, sources of old design layouts, etc.), and this is what you need to use to provide the service.

3. The contract is signed, but it does not contain any specifics on the ordered service, or the contract is not signed and there is only correspondence. In this case, you need to look at the correspondence between you. There is a "paper" correspondence - excellent. If it was from the email addresses specified in the contract, or the customer's corporate mailbox, and it contains the necessary "specifics", then you are lucky and you have agreed on the subject of the contract - you can confidently go to court. If there is no correspondence, and the customer has accepted the work and there is a document about it (a certificate of services rendered, a report signed by him) or the customer used the result of your work, then in court you will have to prove not only that it was you who transferred this work to the customer, but also that How much does this kind of work usually cost? Therefore, do not be lazy to issue invoices and sign acts of services rendered, which indicate what you did or how much you worked, what result you handed over to the customer. Fortunately, there are a lot of services that make such documents.

4. The contract was signed not by the person indicated in it, or this person (director, accountant, manager, etc.) did not have the authority to sign it. If there were payments under such an agreement (to the question of the need for an advance payment), then the customer will most likely be recognized by the court as having entered into such an agreement, even if the director turned out to be a non-director. If the customer officially accepted the result of your work and, moreover, used it, this will also indirectly indicate that it was he who made such an order.

5.Working conditions were agreed by SMS, Skype, instant messengers. As in paragraph 3, the question will arise about identifying the person who ordered such a service from you (you will have to make inquiries to telecom operators, etc.), about what relation he has to the customer company or whether you need to involve him personally as customer. Such disputes require you and your lawyer to have a very clear understanding of the functioning of such services and the fact that they may initially be issued to fictitious or nominee persons. But even in such a situation, it remains possible to obtain the IP address from which the account was used, and through a judicial request to the telecom operator to track the customer. More technically savvy customers can prudently use IP address spoofing or exit from addresses where they have Internet access a large number of people who have nothing to do with the customer. Logging out from a mobile phone allows you to track the phone number, however, even here there is no full guarantee that the phone is not issued to an old woman from a neighboring entrance. And the question whether you will try to collect and receive money from her or not remains not only a matter of principle and patience, because such an identification of the customer in court will be a non-trivial procedure.

6.Negotiations with the customer were conducted in person and by phone, there is no correspondence, especially a contract. In this case, all that remains is to write letters, claims and provoke the customer with an answer like “your work was not completed on time”, “you did not fulfill such and such a condition”, which will directly indicate that there was some kind of relationship between you. However, in such situations, it is extremely difficult to get the agreed money, since there is a high probability that you will not be able to prove what exactly was ordered from you and what exactly you transferred to such a customer and at what price.

How do we sue a client?

If you are an ordinary citizen, then you apply to the district (city) court at the location (registration, place of residence) of the defendant. The customer cannot claim that the contract is invalid if you do not have the status of an individual entrepreneur or do not represent a company. If you are an individual entrepreneur or a legal entity, you will first have to file a valid claim and wait 30 days before filing a claim with court of Arbitration. Such rules are effective June 1, 2016. But if you have written evidence that the customer acknowledges the fact that the work was done, but simply cannot or does not want to pay, then apply for a court order and attach this correspondence. The court will issue a court order within 10 days if the amount of the claim does not exceed 400 thousand rubles. This court order can be immediately presented to the debtor's bank (and the bank will transfer the money to you within 2 working days) or transferred to bailiffs to initiate enforcement proceedings (longer).

If the customer does not recognize the debt, then you can file a claim in the simplified procedure, which involves an absentee (without a summons to court) consideration of the case with the placement of all documents on the website kad.arbitr.ru. In this order, only disputes up to 250 thousand rubles are considered, where the defendants are individual entrepreneurs, and up to 500 thousand rubles, where the defendant is an organization. After filing a claim with the court, you will receive a court ruling, which will contain a special code for accessing the case materials.

The cost of the services of lawyers for the recovery through the court of payment under a service agreement is usually slightly less than under a work contract, which, according to lawyers, is more complicated. In fact, the complexity depends on how well the contract is prepared and what evidence of the work (service) the freelancer has. This accordingly determines the probability of winning the case (a positive motivator for a lawyer), and the duration of the court case, and hence the price. Preparation of a claim costs from 5 thousand rubles, conducting a case in the court of the Kaliningrad region is unlikely to cost less than 20 thousand rubles. But still, this means that in some cases the cost of a lawyer's services is more than the money that the customer must pay. Unscrupulous customers often take advantage of this. Add to this that the customer may be in Khabarovsk or Kamchatka, and you are in Kaliningrad, which allows such customers to feel more secure. In fact, it is quite possible to find a lawyer in any region via the Internet.

The freelancer should know that it is possible to simply "forget" that he was owed money. But how many times are you ready to “forget” like this, do you have enough readiness to continue working like this and what incentive do you give to such customers? Another option is to stand up for your rights to the end, but conduct the case rationally for a long time and treat legal costs like paying electricity and buying paper - all these are just your operating costs in business. After all, no one has canceled the recovery of court costs from the culprit, you just need to find the money now so that they return to you later.

Common legal mistakes freelancers make and what to do about them

Absence of a contract (terms of reference). We have already discussed above that the absence of a contract is one of the main troubles for a freelancer when he has to prove that there were any agreements at all. Often, in order not to pay, customers simply refuse to "saw this freelancer." The “sleight of hand” of some customers leads to the fact that they keep both copies of the contract for themselves, and the contractor has nothing left. The desire to get started quickly also plays a bad joke with freelancers. First, do not neglect the development, approval and signing of the contract. You will learn a lot about your customer when you offer him to sign a contract. If he refuses to sign the contract or introduces conditions that are incomprehensible and beneficial only to him, then you will once again decide for yourself whether it is worth working with him. Secondly, it will be beneficial for both if you offer to develop the same terms of reference for a fee. The customer will get what he wants as a result, and there will be no unjustified expectations, and you, as a freelancer, will receive a clear document on which you will build your work.

Wrong contract. It is quite difficult to describe all the errors that may occur in the contract. One thing can be said for sure: a professional lawyer should be involved in the development of the contract. Unfamiliar accountant, do not download a sample from the Internet, do not do it yourself. The main document that you will work with every time with a new client should be prepared by a professional. You wouldn't go to a general practitioner or a plumber for dental treatment, would you?

Unsettled terms, lack of definitions. If you are making a specific product, then you use professional terms in your work. Do not forget to enter their transcript, both the customer and the court should understand you if it comes to a dispute. This will help in the case of the latter to operate with exactly the wording that you included in the contract. I will say more, even when developing a design, the question arises: what is it? Designers often enter terms such as “design concept”, “site design”, programmers and site developers indicate “IT systems”, “software package”, “website”. Explain what you are creating so that even a person far from your profession can easily understand everything, write how the result of your work can look like or be used, what is included in this work or what its result consists of.

An error in the description of the result of the work. Services and works can be divided into several types depending on the form of the end result. As a result of some, a certain created thing of the real world is transferred (a picture, a drawing, a certain product made to order), others are an electronic document: a file with text translation, a photograph, a drawing, a design layout, a multimedia file, a database, just some text . In some of them, it is essential what the performer did with the source code provided by the customer, what creative, professional element he introduced, in the other - a purely technical task: just carefully and without errors to make a transcript from the audio recording, collect a database with addresses and phone numbers the right people. For example, if you write that you are transferring an audio file, then indicate what exactly will be on this recording, what you do with the source materials (mix the sound or clean it up), arrange or record the performance on musical instruments, in what format you are transferring the finished material, whether you are transferring the source files. There are service-processes where payment can occur for a certain amount of time during which the service is provided (animators, promoters, subscription services from lawyers, accountants), or time is used only as a means of billing (interpretation, performances by musicians, photo and video filming ). In some activities final result is only the final stage in the provision of a service (often a mental activity), and most of this work is performed without creating or with minimal appearance of any signs of work (development of implementation schemes, ideas, concepts). For example, in legal services, the result of providing a very expensive and lengthy service may simply be the answer: "It cannot be done legally." But lawyers solve this problem by preparing a detailed opinion on why they came to this conclusion. There are services where the result cannot be guaranteed due to objective reasons or due to insufficient information about the problem ( medical services, services of trainers, lawyers in court), so it is impossible to guarantee the desired result. What to do when the result of your work is an extremely intangible thing? Formulate the provision of a service as a process, indicating specific features of the result or the process itself, what and how you do, what you interact with, what information you receive and how you process, describe the service as informational. Indicate a specific result, if you can achieve it in any case, formulate the possibility of achieving a negative result. Break your service delivery process into stages, define events that will be uniquely associated with the transition from one stage to another, or a period of time if the moment of such an event cannot be determined.

creative value. A lot of disputes between representatives of creative professions and their customers arise precisely because of a misunderstanding of what the result should be in terms of the creative level. This level is almost impossible to describe, it can only be subjectively determined by the portfolio before concluding an agreement with a specific contractor. Of course, if the design is made with obvious violations of the color combination, the principles of composition are violated, and all this together looks unambiguous and to the taste of anyone like a child's drawing, then the customer will still have to prove later in court that, based on terms of reference, he counted on the design in a certain style (modern or, conversely, stylization for a certain period of time). It is much easier to appeal to the customer when he was offered fewer options for design layouts or logos than is expressly provided for in the contract. But if the latter is a quantitative indicator, then the designer can say to the first question that "he sees it that way." However, if the terms of reference indicate a specific style that the freelancer did not adhere to, then it cannot be said that the order has been completed. The answer to the question of what to consider as separate design options is also subjective and evaluative. It is impossible to describe exactly how much one option should differ from another.

Break down work into steps prescribe payment for each individual stage and the transition to the next stage after accepting the previous one. Firstly, you will immediately receive a certain part of the money and understand how the customer accepts the service. Secondly, the fact of accepting the service, and even more so the signed act on this, will exclude the possibility of challenging the work as a whole, when it has already been de facto completed.

Timing. Respect the deadlines that you yourself have determined in the contract. Prescribe achievable deadlines that will be consistent with each other even under the most unusual set of circumstances and the actions of both parties to the contract. Keep in mind that it is initially assumed that you are doing the work or providing the service “on your own”, and if you “include in the work” the customer, who must provide information, materials or things to fulfill the contract within a certain time frame, and for yourself you also set very specific deadlines completion of the stage, then write for the customer (according to the law, this also applies) in the contract that the deadline for the execution of the stage is extended for the period of delay of the customer.

Full prepayment - not your money. Getting a 100% upfront payment is the dream of many freelancers, but in the conditions of anonymity on the Internet, customers who do not trust the performers or do not want to remove such an effective “accelerator” for performers do not agree to such conditions. However, not all performers know that the customer has the right to refuse (essentially terminate the contract) from the provision of the service at any time, and the freelancer does not have the right to continue it after receiving such a notification. He must transfer the result of his work to the customer, issue him an invoice for the services rendered and calculate the costs incurred. If it turns out that the service is not fully rendered, then the freelancer must return the remuneration received in proportion to the size of the unproven part of the service. The terms of the agreement on the prohibition of such a unilateral refusal are recognized by the courts as invalid . The condition that the prepayment (advance payment), as well as other unearned amounts by the contractor are not returned, in some cases is recognized by the courts as legal, in others the courts recognize such a condition as invalid.

Difficulties in proving the performance of a work or service. Despite the obviousness of the answer to this question for the contractor, there are a huge number of cases in the courts in which customers claim that the contractor did not perform the work at all, did not perform what was required under the contract, or was performed by another person. As noted above, fixing the act of performing work allows you to partially solve this problem, but does not completely exclude possible claims from the customer. The contractor, within 3 years of the limitation period, must keep evidence that he started work, how and where, with whom he performed, save intermediate results, drafts, sketches, work files, correspondence with his employees, subcontractors, etc., t .e. everything that can confirm that it was the contractor who did everything that the customer received. It may seem absurd to keep it for so long, but even after 2 years 11 months and 29 days (and precisely in last days this period) most often there are claims in court from dishonest customers. Keep in mind that in the event of a dispute, the court needs to prove not only the very fact of creating a certain result that you agreed with the customer, but also the fact that you handed it over to the customer within the agreed time. After all, there are such types of work or goods that can disappear without a trace, such as an ice town or sand figures on the beach. Evidence of existence will only be documents, and if there are none, then witnesses. But there are not always witnesses and not always witnesses can clearly say what they saw if they are not professionals in a certain field. This is especially true for technically complex work (for example, the development software, setting up the site engine) or voluminous hidden work that simply cannot be seen by external observers (work through the administrative panel of the CMS, applications, database, work on its transfer, etc.).

The customer can pretend that you did not give him the necessary result of the work, and now he has lost interest and ordered it from someone else. The customer can also file a counterclaim if, due to “your slowness,” some of his orders or events were disrupted, and the amount of damages can, in principle, be anything. No, it will not be easy for the customer to recover damages from you, for this he needs to prove that it was because of your mistakes that both the problem and the losses themselves arose. It often happens that the real reasons for the failures of the customer were different, but he will try to convince the court that the whole reason is in you. This is where your lawyer will have to show ingenuity and care in order to understand the true causes of the customer's losses.

Hello.
In recent days, I have been very interested in the issue of freelance lawyers ( telework). I don't have any clients of my own, because I constantly work at enterprises. Previously, when they turned to me for the provision of services, I refused, but now they don’t turn to me. And here's what I found out - there are a certain number of freelance sites on the Internet, only some of them really work, and almost all of these sites have neither offers nor the possibility of placing lawyers to offer their services. And only one site contains a large database of lawyers, and sometimes (but not much) there is work for lawyers.
This conclusion upset and surprised me. I would still like to freelance. Maybe all the same, someone knows the Internet resources for lawyers devoted to this issue? How to find a client lawyer for remote work? Does it make sense to place ads on all kinds of boards, create your own site on Yandex people, etc.? I would appreciate any advice..

Do not know. Ads are bullshit. Usually people, working at enterprises, are already acquiring connections, and then go into their own business. And already old customers bring new ones.
It's not just in the legal profession, many managers do this. For example, a person works in a livestock company, is engaged in the purchase of veterinary drugs. Then, having learned the whole market from the inside, having access to suppliers, he forms his own company for the sale of veterinary drugs and sells them to his former employer himself. Why did I give such an example, because this is a real case - we worked at the same livestock company, and then the whole legal department left and organized our own law firm, which then provided legal services the firm of this dude who deals with veterinary drugs.

:sm15: Well, I don't have clients, what should I do? Although the husband started exactly the same way - as you write. But there must be a way out, I think.

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> :sm15: Well, I don't have clients, what should I do? Although
> husband started just like that-as you write. But the way out
> should be, I think.

Try to search on the sites of arbitration, who filed a lawsuit against whom and send the defendant to the compred, but this will work in 5 percent out of a hundred. Connections and acquaintances. In general, I came to the conclusion that business in Russia is possible either if you have a lot of dough or connections

Throw me?:sm18: For the sake of building a client base, can I pay less?:sm14:

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> Throw? :sm18: For the sake of gaining client
> bases can I pay less?:sm14:

For example: I'm sitting in ASMO. just received infa on the case, I'm actively discussing it on the phone. Then a woman comes up and says that she is ready to pay if I take her case. Well, I refused, there is no time.

This case is not the first.

Me too. old customers bring in new ones. ahead of everyone else. took. Now I choose.
Sometimes it happens. which is by chance. sitting in the courtroom. give someone advice. Well, they just talked, she said that it should be done this way - but it’s better not to do it this way. They ask you to get down to business. Too. I don't take it often.
Over time - an ambush. and there is no release from clients.

The correct saying is that half your life you work for the image - the other half - it is for you.)

when she started working, she didn’t refuse any cases (there were some, for a chocolate bar, but - very such. boring, noisy, nasty)))) there was a case - and she wrote decisions for the judges, brought them on a floppy disk (well, for the subject - but suddenly she likes it.) yeees. hand over to the secretary a floppy disk with the text of the lawsuit (well, so as not to stuff it), and “accidentally” leave a file with the name “draft decision” in the same place. Then you read the decision word for word. the cases were mostly nasty, with an economic bias, in which the judges in the SOY did not really want to dig - so they are happy))))

then, little by little, as they say, the earth is full of hearing.
when she toiled over some thread of practically free business, the dear one said - well, why did you contact this grandmother (grandfather, single mother, disabled person, etc.), you are only wasting time. I answered him that this grandmother would tell her friends about me on a bench near the house, those - to their children, etc., and when someone has a problem, maybe they will remember me and they will come to me))) and problems can be after all not only personal, but also industrial.
it happened, right now too - I refuse many things, due to lack of time 🙂

Got it, thanks everyone for the replies. Well, I'm on the sly, since I'm still a working lawyer and earn a living, I'll still try to develop this area of ​​activity, if possible.

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> send me for a commission? Ulan-Ude, Alena,
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can. but commission forward!

Evelyn, well, how did your idea turn out?
I am also interested in this question.
7 years is a good time

Freelance for lawyers: prospects for remote work

Hello, dear readers! Legal advice is needed by a huge number of people who are willing to pay. They do not always want to go to offices, preferring in some cases to use remote services. Do you want to earn money on this?

Qualified lawyers can advise clients at home via the Internet and make good money on it. This job is freelancing. It is actively developing and gaining popularity.

Freelancing for lawyers will be the main topic of today's publication. Conventionally, it can be divided into several approaches to financial development:

1. increase the reputation of a specialist;
2. attract more new customers;
3. work with visitors without significant competition.

The list is not limited to that, there are actually a lot of advantages. Separately, I would like to dwell on the third point. Think for yourself in which of the two situations below the probability of getting an order will be higher:

Obviously, in the first case, getting a job can be much easier.
I will not describe now how to make and promote resources on the network correctly. The topic is very large and is partially covered in other materials on the blog.

The purpose of this article is to talk about freelancing for lawyers, as an option for making money at home. Was the information helpful? You can leave a comment below. For today I have everything. All the best and great financial success.

Pravovoz - online exchange of legal services

The founders of the Pravovoz team are Renat Nazmutdinov and Georgy Firsov. We are 25 years old, we are both graduates of the law faculty of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov and worked in their specialty.

Almost a year ago, on one warm evening, sitting at the computer, we asked ourselves the question: how can we work in such a way that we can do interesting work, and give small and voluminous tasks, as well as urgent questions, to freelance? And then just take everything that comes in, check it, compile it and give the result.

There is an idea - it's time to understand. They began to study freelance sites, various remote assistants and other YouDo. But we encountered a number of inconveniences and problems: for example, some of the services are focused mainly on copyright, website assistance or courier services, but there are simply no lawyers there. Well, not exactly not, but very little, and everyone wants a lot of money, nothing to do with freelancing.

On another type of site - a la legal - they offer to call back or come to the office anyway. On the third, some incomprehensible fixed prices or they say this: "Everything is free, lawyers are good Samaritans and are eager to work for you." After placing a free order, no one answers, and after some time we are offered to pay so that someone pays attention to the task.

Well, is that the case? So we thought that this is not the case and we need to do everything completely differently.

What we decided to change

First, to make legal services more accessible so that everyone can get answers to questions in human language - without any usufructs, superficies and emphyteusis. You ask a question in the way you can ask it, and the lawyer clarifies its essence and answers very clearly, chewed and provides the maximum finished documents so that you can simply print them and, for example, issue an inheritance.

Secondly, we decided to make sure that the customer sets the price. Here you have a question - such a small, unpretentious one, but you cannot figure it out, because you simply do not know what and where to look for. Well, you don’t have a “Guarantor” and “Consultant”, but a lawyer does. And it will take exactly 10 minutes.

But if you call by phone, then you will be offered to come for a more detailed discussion and they will take money. If you contact a law firm, they will have to pay for your visit (secretary, water, telephone, Internet, legal assistant, printer, office rent) and they will charge you money. Order from just a lawyer found through Google, by e-mail - you will be charged. More precisely, 50 to 50, either they will do everything super, or you will transfer the money to his card, and he will disappear or do badly (you yourself came across).

Therefore, the goal was for the customer himself to say that he was ready to pay 1,000 rubles, and the lawyer, who was worth a thousand, fulfilled it.

For a month of the online platform, we have an online robot for writing complaints about fines (free of charge) - Pravobot. We plan to combine online and offline business and create the largest online law firm in Russia (details here).

Freelance exchange for lawyers, designers

Many people are interested in remote work, and to make it easier to find it, special exchanges have been created.

On such popular projects as Weblancer or FL , you can find many various vacancies to work online, but too many applicants come here looking for work, so it is difficult for newcomers to find an employer.

Freelance exchanges for lawyers, designers, students, creatives - this is a certain part of the exchanges created to search for a specific job.

In this article, we will look at the most popular exchanges for all groups of people indicated in the title, and if you are one of them, choose any project and start searching suitable job.

Freelance exchange for lawyers

9111 is one of the most popular sites for lawyers, where new questions appear every day, and you can earn money by answering them. In addition, there is a "Jobs for Lawyers" section where you can find offline vacancies in various cities.

Pravoved - every day a huge number of people apply for legal help through this site. After registering, you will be able to receive payment for customer calls, answers to questions or help with the preparation of various documents.

Liveexpert - experts from various areas including lawyers. Specialists are offered a free choice of activities, but the most common is consultations.

Freelance exchange for designers

Logopod - by the name of the exchange, you can already guess that logos (of websites, companies, and so on) are sold through it. In addition, through Personal Area you can sell domain names.

Illustrators is another exchange with a "speaking name" for illustrators. All kinds of orders for the development of book covers, slides for presentations, pictures for fairy tales and much more are constantly added here.

Russiancreators - most often, orders for the development of design elements for websites appear on this exchange. Other types of remote work are also periodically offered, for example, an operator for some online service.

Freelance exchange for students

Vsesdal is the most popular student help site. This exchange has minimum payment limits. For example, the cost of writing an essay starts from 400 rubles, and a thesis from 4,500 rubles.

Help-s - you can also help students for money with the help of this exchange. The order feed is constantly updated, and among the orders there are various solutions to problems, writing control, term papers and other papers.

Freelance exchange for creatives

E-generator - a creative person can find a suitable job on this exchange. The creatives on this site come up with logos, advertising ideas, slogans, event plans, and so on.

Birza-truda - do you want to become a TV star? Look for offers on this exchange. Here you can send applications for participation in castings for serials, advertising, extras, various contests or promotions.

Through the Internet, you can find the main job or clients to work on a particular project. The most important thing learn to search and choose best services where there are always new offers.

Freelance for lawyers: vacancies and options for remote work

Every day, thousands of entrepreneurs and individuals need a lawyer remotely and they are ready to pay for it. Why not make money?

Freelancing for lawyers is a great way for professionals in the field to advise clients from home over the Internet and still earn a decent income. This type of activity is called freelancing. Over the past few years, it has become very common and popular among both beginners and experienced lawyers.

Part-time work for a lawyer at home: 3 earnings schemes

Working remotely as a lawyer at home is possible using 3 schemes:

1. remote work using the interface of narrow-profile projects;
2. attracting customers through your own website;
3. selection of desired orders on freelance exchanges.
All of them involve working remotely. To do this, you only need a computer and the Internet.

Part-time work as a lawyer remotely: vacancies and projects for remote work

If you need a part-time job for lawyers remotely on the Internet, then you should consider several specialized platforms:

Freelance lawyer: vacancies and features of the work of a freelance specialist

If you have a legal education and work experience in this area, you can find a job as a lawyer online, but with some difficulty, since the competition in the market is quite high. You will need to provide a number of convincing facts to the future employer that you will cost him less and do the job just as well as a full-time lawyer. If you know one or more foreign languages, you can provide advice to foreign citizens, which takes you to a new level and is paid much higher.

Most often, freelance services are used by small companies that have recently opened and do not yet have sufficient funds to pay for a full-time lawyer. But sometimes there are large companies, whose employees are overworked, or there have been a number of layoffs, which has led to an increase in the workload of the company's lawyers.

What are the responsibilities of a freelance lawyer?

The Internet is the most suitable place for a part-time lawyer, gaining experience, skills and a client base. The most common vacancies are:

Depending on the position, they change and official duties lawyer. He can do:

Freelance lawyer.

A very solid job. If you have a legal education and work experience in your specialty, then you may well find a job as a freelance lawyer on the Internet. The competition in this area is quite high. Although why precisely on this!? According to others - it is no less! You have to convince your future employer that you will cost him less than a full-time salaried lawyer.

A freelance lawyer, or a remote lawyer, most often deals with the following cases:
Drafting of legal documents of the following direction…
- lawsuits to the courts general jurisdiction, justices of the peace, arbitration courts, military courts, arbitration courts; — an appeal, cassation, supervisory complaint, including a supervisory complaint to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation; - response to the claim. – a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights; - a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office; - application to the police; - complaints to any government bodies to lower institutions. — complaints to the Federal Antimonopoly Service; – any civil law contracts; - employment contracts; - claims, letters; - an appeal to a higher tax authority; – drawing up the Charter, protocols of LLC; - an application to the tax authority for the registration of a new legal entity or individual entrepreneur. — other legally significant documents;

All of the above documents are sent and received by e-mail. Therefore, in fact, it becomes possible to work remotely as a lawyer. A freelance lawyer can also be involved in general support of cases in the firm. He may be consulted for advice on tax issues or non-compliance with the terms of the contract. Most often, the services of a freelance lawyer are resorted to small firms. Newly opened, they often do not have enough funds to pay for the expensive services of a permanent lawyer.

Employers.
If you want to seek the help of a freelance lawyer, you must:
Make sure you are dealing with the right person. He must provide a portfolio, with reviews of previous customers and a law degree. You must clearly understand for yourself on what specific issue you want to get help. A freelance lawyer is unlikely to travel to another city. Immediately discuss issues with payment for his services.

A freelance lawyer must have:
Portfolio Diploma Be sure to specify the terms of the contract and the amount of work to be done. And, of course, payment issues.
Freelance lawyer works online. He does not have the opportunity to personally go to the place and talk with people. Therefore, most often, he is engaged in the preparation of documentation, paperwork. It is not uncommon for remote lawyers to work with multiple clients at the same time. For example, you may be a practicing lawyer and earn extra income through the internet as a freelance lawyer. Where can I find freelance lawyer jobs? On the freelance exchanges! You can check them out on my website.

Earnings on freelancing without intermediaries is different from earnings through exchanges. What mistakes beginner freelancers need to avoid in order to make money.

Be a freelancer without bosses

Freelance- this is remote work for everyone on the Internet. If we decompose the English word "freelance" into components, then we can translate it as (free worker).

Why is it called so? Because a freelancer is not “tied” to one particular employer. He can work with anyone. He chooses.

A freelancer can even be an underage teenager who dreams of a motorcycle, for example. His age is not a hindrance here. He may well write articles for websites or printed publications and get much more money than for working for local public utilities (janitor).

Remote work is gaining more and more popularity. The benefits are obvious. For example: do you have a good high paying job, but there is one drawback - a lot of free time. You also have a talent for expressing your thoughts in writing in a way that is understandable to everyone.

Do not bury talent in the ground? It is necessary to use all the available benefits of the modern world! So, for people like you, there are various Internet services that give you the opportunity to earn extra money.

freelancer- This is a person who earns remotely, using the Internet. Among them are designers, and web programmers, and copywriters, etc. etc. In general, all those whose work does not require a personal presence at the workplace.

Are you good at designing good websites? Please! Make for newbies willing to pay for it. Do you own English language perfectly? Translate texts for money! Programming small programs? Sign a contract with software giants and work for your profit!

freelancing websites

Look for freelance agencies in search engines. Register. Start working. The rules are somewhat similar to an auction. In the freelancing world, there are customers (those who need a service) and freelancers (in our case, you). The customer places his order. Freelancers begin to offer their services with a cost and end time.

The customer evaluates the proposals and the portfolio of performers. Chooses the best. After completing the order, it is handed over to the customer and the money is received.

Don't be afraid. There are a lot of spheres. And you will find the one in which you understand better than others!

The ranks of freelancers are steadily replenished with new members and every day there are more and more of them. Of course, such a job and a similar lifestyle of a freelance artist has a lot of advantages, and anyone who wants to join their ranks should know what needs to be done to become a freelancer.

1. A beginner freelancer must have a computer with fast internet. IN modern world The computer has long ceased to be a luxury item and has become more of a necessity. Computer power is required such that it would allow solving exactly those tasks that a novice worker will solve. If it's just writing texts, then a simple office machine is enough, and in the case of design projects with visualization, then you can't do without a powerful computer with a powerful video card. Naturally, there should be several ways to connect with clients and employers: Email Skype, mobile phone, is the minimum number. It is also necessary to create wallets in the Webmoney or Yandex.Money system, to which payment for the services performed will be transferred.

2. The choice of the type of service that the freelancer will provide is very important. Firstly, this service should be relevant and there should be a demand for it, and secondly, you need to choose a job that you like and what your soul is for.

If there is not enough education, then you should not worry too much about it. The necessary skills will be acquired in the course of work. You can study on your own, using the Internet, and when the freelancer is already stronger and stronger, you can take professional courses.

Most companies are now using distance learning- through webinars, when it is possible to listen to the necessary course of lectures almost live, receive and do homework, and even defend remotely thesis. But the document on the completion of the courses is quite real.

3. A novice freelancer will initially have to work for little money, because only a low price can attract an employer who is willing to pay an unfamiliar worker. Further, when it is done in good faith and with high quality a certain number of orders, the freelancer will form a portfolio that speaks eloquently about his qualifications. Accordingly, the price for work with the growth of qualifications will also increase.

There are a lot of freelance exchanges on the Internet, where they keep records of completed orders and automatically generate a portfolio. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a good exchange for yourself, and not be in constant “throwing” from one to another, since the necessary qualifications in each new place must be proven starting from scratch.

4. Finding your first orders is one of the most difficult first steps on this path. And a novice "free artist" should not be squeamish about fulfilling the first orders for a low price, or even for free. The main thing is to establish yourself as a conscientious and competent employee. In the future, the employer himself can give personal orders, for which he will be ready to pay good money. But, this is only in the case when he does not doubt the qualifications of a freelancer who has repeatedly performed work with high quality.

Some exchanges have a PRO account purchase service that allows you to rise in the ranking of performers and then there will be more chances that the customer will pay attention to the employee.

A novice freelancer should definitely visit professional forums, which are available both on exchanges and separately from them. And not only visit, but actively participate in life - ask questions or share your experience. Employers also visit such forums, so such a step can significantly increase the employee's rating, which will further affect the increase in the number of customers and the cost of work.

5. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, any income is taxed. Therefore, if a freelancer is going to work seriously, with large clients, then it is worth registering as an individual entrepreneur. This step has several advantages.

Firstly, the employee will have normal relations with the tax office.