Legal Secretaries

Legal Secretaries perform secretarial, clerical and other administrative tasks in support of Legal Professionals, applying knowledge of legal terminology, procedures and documents.

What the job involves

• Liaises with other staff to arrange meetings, and to gain and provide information

• Prepares reports, briefing notes and correspondence, and proofreads work for typographical and grammatical errors

• Maintains diaries and makes travel arrangements

• Processes incoming and outgoing mail, filing correspondence and maintains records

• Answers telephone calls, responds to inquiries and redirects callers

• Takes and transcribes dictation of letters and other documents

• Greets visitors, ascertains nature of business and directs visitors to appropriate personal

• May implement management decisions and maintain records of meetings