Job Brief
This template for a Legal Secretary job description is ideal for posting on job boards and careers pages. It is also easy to customize for your business. You can modify the job duties and responsibilities of the legal secretary to meet your company’s hiring needs.
Job Description
- ● Provide administrative support to one or more lawyers
- ● Effectively communicate with witnesses, clients, colleagues and partners
- ● Greet visitors and perform initial screening of clients
- ● Attend trials and type minutes
- ● Write case briefs and synopses of depositions, contracts and testimony
- ● Conduct thorough statistical/ documentary research
- ● Source and verify important case intelligence
- ● Produce and file various legal documents such as appeals, motions or petitions
- ● Preserve an updated case record system
- ● Answer phone calls, take notes/messages and redirect calls when appropriate
- ● Maintain and update inventories of contact details
- ● Facilitate the meeting of deadlines by keeping multiple agendas and provide timely reminders
Job Requirements
- ● Proven experience as Legal Secretary
- ● Knowledge of constitution, legal terminology, regulations and court system
- ● Knowledge of MS Office and ability to work with legal technology (court-filing computer systems, transcription software, dictaphone etc)
- ● Working knowledge of litigation management software systems is a plus
- ● Proficiency in English
- ● Outstanding time-management and typing skills
- ● Ability to multitask and being comfortable dealing with a diverse pool of people
- ● Legal Secretary certification or diploma