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Legal administrative assistant
Certified legal assistant Certified legal secretary Certified legal secretary specialist Collection legal assistant Legal administrative assistant Legal administrative secretary Legal executive secretary Legal secretary Litigation legal assistant Litigation secretary Paralegal 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.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Preparing and processing legal documents and papers, such as deeds, wills, affidavits and briefs;
(b) Reviewing and proofreading documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures;
(c) Mailing, faxing or arranging for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses and court officials;
(d) Organizing and maintaining documents, case files and law libraries;
(e) Screening requests for meetings, and scheduling and organizing meetings;
(f) Assisting in the preparation of budgets, monitoring of expenditures, drafting of contracts and purchasing or acquisition orders;
(g) Supervising the work of office support workers.
Knowledge
- Law
Digital competencies
- Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
- Collaborating and liaising
- Planning events and programmes
- Managing budgets or finances
- Liaising and networking
Digital competencies
- Managing, gathering and storing digital data
- Using word processing, publishing and presentation software
- Analysing and evaluating information and data
Personal competencies
- Working efficiently
- Communicating
- Following ethical code of conduct
Professional groups of the occupation
Technicians and associate professionals
Business and administration associate professionals
Administrative and specialized secretaries
Legal secretaries
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Legal secretaries
251
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
69,15%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
18,40% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
79,28%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
14,34%
Part-time contracts
1,06% Turnover index
42
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
20%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Business and administration associate professionals
61%
39%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Business and administration associate professionals
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Administrative and specialized secretaries
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Legal secretaries
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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