Legal Secretarial
Legal secretarial work provides support to lawyers, solicitors, paralegals and legal executives in day-to-day administrative tasks involved in a legal firm.
The main areas of responsibility in legal secretarial work cover the preparation of legal documents such as contracts, court forms, letters, leases and wills. There is often a high demand for audiotape transcription skills - audio typists. Legal secretaries in larger firms tend to specialise in one or two areas of law, whilst legal secretarial employees in smaller practices develop experience in a broad range of legal areas. In general, legal secretarial posts will involve handling telephone calls and dealing with client enquiries and other legal secretarial tasks such as dealing with e-mails, letters, faxes, diary organisation and appointments, filing and other general administrative work. Legal secretarial positions may also involve attending police cells or court with solicitors.
Most legal secretarial positions tend to be viewed as being in solicitors' practices and lawyers offices, but your legal secretarial job could involve you in work for local authorities, law courts, police services, the military or estate agents or legal secretarial roles offer progression, through experience and training, to senior secretarial, personal assistant or managerial posts. With further legal secretarial training through certificates and diplomas from The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PA's you could become a legal executive, paralegal or licensed conveyancer or specialise in subjects such as corporate law. You could also choose to further your legal secretarial studies to become a solicitor or a barrister.
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