The role of legal secretaries, also known as attorney administrative assistants or legal assistants, has evolved in the past two decades. As with everything else, technology continues to transform the traditional law office. Legal secretaries must transcend conventional roles of typing and answering phones to overseeing high-value activities between attorneys and clients and with regards to legal proceedings. Legal secretaries do what any administrative assistant might do, except that the legal world is a bit more convoluted. All deadlines are a priority, and a minor detail overlooked could jeopardize the case of a client or merit legal action from opposing attorneys. This course has been developed specifically to benefit legal secretary professionals and covers key topics to enable secretaries to thrive in their organizations.

Course Methodology

This course uses a combination of interactive activities, group, and individual exercises, role plays and discussions. It also uses tools to assess personal talents and areas of improvement and will help participants devise improvement plans accordingly. Participants will come up with their own strategies to overcome real-life scenarios and will be given the chance to challenge and defend findings.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Target Audience

Legal Secretaries, Court clerks, personal assistants and any member of the general staff in the court set up wishing to improve their personal skills and challenge themselves to excel in their mission at the office.

Target Competencies

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