On The Government Outsourcing Legal Services

The government purchase law service is very popular in the foreign countries, butit is still in the exploration and pilot phase in China. With a series of activities, such asChinese economic and social development, reform and opening-up, governmentdemand for legal services continues to increase, so that the legal department ofgovernment cannot meet the deep level and diversified demand for legal services atpresent. In this case, the government considered from its administrative point of view,it need the help of external legal resources to promote administration according to law.At the same time, how to buy high quality legal services for its use, and the soundpurchase and audit system is the inevitable choice. Facing many problems ofgovernment purchase legal services: not a good sense of service, heavy onerousservice light public welfare activities; do not follow the law of market economy,heavy celebrity benefit light practical efficiency; not to expand the field of lawyerservice, heavy afterwards light ex ante; not a sound system, heavy result light programand so on. We learn the experience of government purchase law service from therelatively mature civil law and common law countries, at the same time wecombined with our current situation of government purchase law service, so as toput forward the operational policy suggestions to China’s Government Purchase Lawservice. After all, the current legal service industry is still in the initial stage, it stillneeds government support. Buy the way of government purchase law service legalservices, it not only supports the legal services industry, also sets up governmentcompliance law example. Benign cycle, with the legal services industry is growingday by day. It will lead the whole society form the new atmosphere of compliancelaw.