legal administrative assistant

Legal administrative assistants carry out the daily administrative activities of firms, offices of notaries, and companies. They perform activities such as writing mails, phone-answering and typing/keyboarding. They combine these activities with specific knowledge and understanding of the procedures and codes managed in legal business affairs.

Alternative Labels

certified legal assistant

certified legal secretary

certified legal secretary specialist

collection legal assistant

legal administrative secretary

legal executive secretary

legal secretary

litigation legal assistant

litigation secretary

paralegal assistant

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

communicate by telephone compile legal documents manage personnel agenda meet deadlines for preparing legal cases observe confidentiality perform clerical duties perform office routine activities

Essential Knowledge

legal department processes legal terminology private law procedural law

Optional Skills and Competences

apply technical communication skills brief court officials decode handwritten texts fix meetings handle case evidence issue sales invoices liaise with typists manage accounts manage digital documents revise legal documents study court hearings translate keywords into full texts use word processing software

Optional Knowledge

civil law civil process order court procedures legal case management legal research

Skills & Competences

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0264b794-3771-47aa-a675-78bf13b62ee7

Status

released

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