Legal Secretary
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- What's it like to be a Legal Secretary?
- How to become a Legal Secretary
- Latest Legal Secretary jobs
- Top skills and experience for Legal Secretaries
What's it like to be a Legal Secretary?
A Legal Secretary helps a law firm or a corporation’s legal department run smoothly. They are expected to be familiar with the law, legal procedures, and terms related to these. They perform time-consuming tasks to leave the Lawyers free to do their work. These duties can be simple, such as photocopying documents, or more complex, such as helping with research. Legal Secretaries are essential members of a legal team.
Tasks and duties
- Answering phone calls and relaying messages to the Lawyers concerned.
- Performing the initial screening of prospective clients.
- Producing professional correspondence and legal documents, such as summonses and subpoenas.
- Copying and filing legal documents with the court, and also for firm records.
- Arranging meetings, hearings, and court depositions, and reminding Lawyers about these ahead of time.
- Writing synopses of depositions and testimonies.
How to become a Legal Secretary
Working as a Legal Secretary requires at least a basic education and some years of relevant experience.
Acquire at least a secondary school diploma. Alternatively, pass a minimum of five subjects, which must include English, in the Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Ordinary-level (GCE O-level) Programme.
If necessary, enrol in online courses to become proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
Legal Secretaries are generally trained on the job. However, relevant experience of at least two years is still required by many companies. Gain secretarial and administrative experience in a law firm, or in any other professional services company.
