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13111.00 – Legal administrative assistants

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.

Overview

Example 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

Core competencies

  • Writing to ensure draft correspondence, legal documents and reports are clear, precise and professionally formatted
  • Time Management to juggle multiple tasks, such as managing schedules, filing documents and preparing case materials
  • Speech Recognition to efficiently and accurately transcribe legal documents, memos and correspondence from voice recordings
  • Verbal Ability to clearly convey information, take accurate verbal instructions and handle phone calls and inquiries professionally
  • Written Comprehension to read and understand various legal documents, such as contracts, court filings and case files
  • Attention to Detail to ensure legal documents are correct, deadlines are met and procedural requirements are followed
  • Knowledge in Clerical to understand clerical functions, including organizing files, maintaining records, scheduling appointments and managing correspondence

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following 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.

Additional information

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Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Paralegals and related occupations (42200)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

1 – Business, finance and administration occupations

TEER

3 – Occupations usually require a college diploma or apprenticeship training of less than two years; or more than six months of on-the-job training

Major group

13 – Administrative occupations and transportation logistics occupations

Sub-major group

131 – Administrative occupations

Minor group

1311 – Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical

Unit group

13111 – Legal administrative assistants

Occupational profile

13111.00 – Legal administrative assistants

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