Corporate lawyers and evidentiary authority in the green export economy

Green market-access requirements affect how firms establish the facts on which legal advice depends. This article examines that process through a documentary comparison of Vietnamese seafood, timber and textile export governance and a bounded pilot of nine public vacancy notices. Within this corpus, legal roles emphasise advice, contracts and governance, whereas specialist roles specify audits, testing, traceability and corrective action. The notices describe advertised responsibilities, not workplace authority. They identify a problem for organisational inquiry: counsel may be expected to assess representations built from records produced and checked elsewhere. The article calls this a responsibility-control gap and treats professional jurisdiction as the capacity to contest evidence before a commercial position becomes difficult to reverse. The sector comparison explains how the timing and reversibility of evidence condition that capacity. The analysis traces this authority across lawyers, technical specialists, assurance providers, digital systems and foreign buyers, asking whether their arrangements preserve distinct expertise while allowing material disagreement to alter a decision.