Job description Administrative Assistant - Legal in the Northeast Region

Find out what work is like for an administrative assistant - legal in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Legal administrative assistants (NOC 13111).

Legal administrative assistants

Description

Legal administrative assistants perform a variety of secretarial and administrative duties in law offices, legal departments of large firms, real estate companies, land title offices, municipal, provincial and federal courts and government.

Job 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
• 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 coordinate 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.

Job titles

• administrative assistant - legal
• corporate law legal assistant
• legal assistant
• legal assistant - criminal law
• legal secretary
• litigation legal assistant
• litigation secretary
• real estate secretary

Related occupations

• Paralegals and related occupations
• Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations
• Correspondence, publication and regulatory clerks

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