Legal administrative assistant

Code 3342.2

Legal administrative assistants carry out the daily administrative activities of firms, offices of notaries, and companies. They perform activities such as writing mails, phone-answering and typing/keyboarding. They combine these activities with specific knowledge and understanding of the procedures and codes managed in legal business affairs.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • procedural law
  • legal department processes
  • legal terminology

Skills and competences

  • communicate by telephone
  • manage personnel agenda
  • perform office routine activities
  • perform clerical duties
  • compile legal documents

Transversal competences

  • observe confidentiality
  • meet deadlines for preparing legal cases

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences