Legal Secretary

Legal Secretary

INTRODUCTION

Our Legal Secretary Introduction course takes you through the workings within a legal office, including introducing the practitioners and support staff. You’ll examine civil and criminal law, the court system and how legislation happens. Following this, your steps in to legal secretarial work continues with layouts, file management, office and client accounts, recording time, client care and abbreviations. Then you complete this, the very best of initial legal secretarial courses, with handling amendments and corrections.

OBJECTIVES

Unlike other legal secretary courses, this tried and tested programme of study gives you the perfect overview of what’s involved and the different legal departments. Meaning you’ll have the confidence to show potential employers that you’ve been trained to high level.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day One

• The legal office
•  legal practitioners
•  support staff
•  the legal secretary
•  importance of proof-reading

Day Two

• Difference between civil law and criminal law
•  court system and structure,
• how laws are made
• general office procedures
•  different methods of communication
•  setting up files for a new client
•  client care letter
•  instruction form
• telephone attendance note

Day Three

• House style
• business letter layout
• special instructions and marks
• Routing correspondence
• inserting dates into documents
• legal document layout
• inserting specified horizontal space
• precedents and specialized software
• preparing a codicil
• importance of good file management

Day Four

• The office account and client account
•  how time is record
•  client care and invoicing
•  business memo layout
•  letter before action
• correct expansion of abbreviations

Day Five

• Cases Study