what tasks does a legal secretary perform?
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Same things as a normal secretary, except you have to be familiar with legal documents.  you might be required to perform some paralegal duties as well.
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You dress nicely (usually), look pretty and serve alcoholic drinks. Unofficial duties include being leered at, rejecting unsuitable propositions from drunk patrons, getting one's buttocks pinched and fending off the advances of the club owner's son.
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In smaller firms I've worked, the terms were nearly interchangeable.\n\nLegal secretary - handles typing, filing, correspondence, phones... all the secretarial duties, with an understanding of filing procedures, deadlines, and client particulars involved in the field of law.\n\nLegal assistant - this may involve some secretarial duties, but may also involve research, increased interaction with clients and other professionals in the field, and the odd job as it arises for a particular case. Some of these hours may be billable.\n\nParalegal - involves more research, and may assist in pulling together pieces for legal filings. Perhaps the most skilled of the non-lawyers in document preparation. Most of the paralegal's hours will be billable.
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It depends upon the state.\n\nHowever, ordinarily a courtroom staff will include the judge, his or her law clerk (sometimes called a law secretary) - who does legal research and helps with the drafting of opinions, a court clerk, who handles scheduling and manages the paper flow, and court officer(s) who handle security. In busy courts they may double or even triple up on the law clerk position.
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They start when a request/approval is made from the manager in charge of the employee to be dismissed. HR ensures there is a proper reason for the dismissal.\n\nThey're the ones who prepare all the necessary documents, observe that all procedures are followed for the proper dismissal of an employee. \n\nWhen the time comes, it is HR that usually handles how the employee is treated / handled on their last day of employment.
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Serving court papers means dealing with people whose emotions can run high. Civil suits, divorce cases, domestic violence restraining order cases and such have a lot of drama associated with them. \n\nIf you take this job, make sure to not let it get personal for you. I'd recommend investing in a small digital voice recorder to document things that are said in the commission of your duties. Oh, and a t-shirt that says "Don't Shoot the Messenger"
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-$35,000-$40,000 a year including bonuses for Legal assistants aka Paralegals. However, it depends on what firm you go for. \n-No, legal assistants are not the same as legal secretaries. Although, they have similar job functions, except the legal assistant is more involved in researching.
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The secretary?\n\ncheck the link out...\n\nhope this helps
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secretaries of state's\noxen's\nbusinessmen's
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I went to my local council (UK) to ask about this. I should have just gone on yahoo! answers!!\n\nThe job is extremely administration oriented. An actual planning officer spends a lot of his time fobbing off the solid 'planning officer' jobs onto the assistant and dealing with the administration aspect of everything himself but here's his/her job description anyway. \n\nThe major duties involve Determining Planning Application, making sure they meet all the legal requirements for\nthe country and that the plan can be carried out legally: e.g. making sure that the plan is not made on a listed building and if it is that the proposed changes are compliant with the strictures & restrictions of the listed property. \n\nAnother consideration is the intended use of the property and whether planning permission is required: there's no point building if the community then disagree with what the building is to be used for, and any change of use for a building must be approved or at least not objected to by the community. Whether it's just improving the building to carry out the same business or use e.g. a market or block of apartments being improved would have rammifications on rent and other costs therefore residents\nliving on or near to the property have a right to disagree and stop the developments from going ahead.\n\nA planning officer is expected to Respond to preliminary enquiries about the likelihood of planning consent for proposals being given and to prepare planning appeal submissions on behalf ofthe council: attending appeal site inspections and representing the relevant body at public inquiries as required and taking account of legislative, policy, departmental procedure and service issues.\n\nThey've also got to carry out enforcement duties as required through investigating potential breaches of planning control and preparing reports/formal notices as required taking account of legislative, policy, department procedure and service issues.\n\n\nThey must contribute to the effectiveness of the service by proviing information and advice about Development Control and related matters as required to the required bodies, they must contribute to the formulation of and compliance with section objecties and procedures, participating in and controbuting to section meetings and contributing to the formulation and implementation of planning policy and other professional matters of the relevant body he or she is working for.\n\nI hope this isn't too much!
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To advise the child on legal and court matters.
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Everything involved with organizing, scheduling, and administration duties that keep things running smoothly: of course the basics- faxing, typing, filing, in-house correspondence etc.
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you can look for work at school as a secretary
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Bureaucratic offices deal with the law.  They simply need to adhere to the law, or execute the law.  They don't have to be nice, or have good customer service skills.  We are at their mercy and must be nice to them.\n\nPatron-client organizations are about people pleasing - customer service. They must be good at people pleasing to retain clients - or else someone can simply go to another business to fulfill their needs.\n\nOrganized crime? How does that fit in? Their insidious hands get into everything - through blackmail and coercion. Basically they use threats to bully people into doing what they want.
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Well, I worked as a legal secretary in a small firm for over a year and a half with NO previous legal experience.  When I went in for my interview, I made it clear that I wanted the job and was very eager to learn.  Also state that you plan to further your education, most employers are impressed with that.
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a significant difference. legal secretaries do secretary work, paralegals do all the leg work, and some of the secretarial work for the attorney......and also log "hours" just like an attorney. therefore, if you work for a group you can work as much as you would like......and make a whale of a lot of money. anywhere from 25-100 bucks an hour (in a city) depending on your specialty. a lot more than a secretary.
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**Coordinates the services, facilities and collections of the medical library. \n\n**Assesses information needs of library users and evaluates how well the library meets those needs. \n\n**Monitors long range planning for the library. \n\n**Provides reference services and searches. \n\n**Develops, selects and maintains book, journal, electronic and audio/visual collections. \n\n**Instructs patrons in the use of the library, equipment and database bibliographic searching. \n\n**Keeps statistics, prepares reports, maintains accurate records, and coordinates security passwords on licensed material. \n\n**Supervises volunteers and interns.