- Legal administrative assistants perform some or all of the following duties:
- - Prepare and key in correspondence and legal documents, such as deeds, wills, affidavits and briefs, from handwritten copy, shorthand and machine dictation using computers
- - Review and proofread documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures and grammatical usage
- - Schedule appointments, meetings and conferences for employer
- Continued…
- - Set up and maintain filing systems, utilizing knowledge of legal records and procedures and frequently controlling confidential materials and documents
- - Open and distribute regular and electronic incoming mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information internally and with other departments or organizations
- - Determine and establish office procedures and routines
- - May supervise and train other staff in procedures and in the use of current software
- - May attend court, meetings or conferences to take notes, minutes and dictation
- - May perform other general office work as required including preparing financial statements.
