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Legal Secretary Job Description

• Legal secretarial jobs require you to help lawyers and legal executives with the day-to-day tasks.
• You could be working for a legal firm, local authority, court of law or the police, and you can specialise in one area from civil litigation to criminal cases.
• Legal secretaries deal with a range of activities including taking telephone calls and sorting correspondence, taking dictation and other clerical work such as filing, organising diaries and keeping records.
• You'll be a time management expert as you’ll be juggling various roles at the same time
• You’ll also need to have an awareness of client needs and be able to interact with them with tact and patience.
• As well as excellent secretarial skills you’ll need to be interested in law and have an understanding of legal text and terms.
• Office and administration experience is useful, as is a prior knowledge of the law as you’ll need to be able to prepare and process legal documents and forms.
• You will also need to demonstrate discretion and maturity as you’ll often be privy to very confidential or sensitive information. 
• Senior legal secretarial jobs may involve you to attend court or police cells and need to liaise with other firms and organisations to request information or meetings.

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Salary Information

• Starting salaries for legal secretary jobs are around £18,000 to £24,000*
• Qualified legal secretaries earn more than £30,000 a year.*
• Legal secretary salaries are often dependent on the industry: the media or charity sector tends to pay less than the financial or commercial sector.
  *These figures are intended as a guideline only.

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