Legal Secretary Resume

Legal secretaries offer secretarial support to the professional staff in the legal offices. Their tasks may includes dealing with paperwork, organizing the office diaries, arranging appointments for legal executives and solicitors, controlling telephone enquiries and handling visiting clients. Some aspects of work: Being curios in law aspects like business, personal or criminal. Working in the office. Estimating financial and other commercial figure works. Maintaining correct reports or records. Organizing and storing data.

Legal secretaries prepare and maintain the records of legal costs and require understanding of finance, accounting and business. Secretaries also arrange and proofs read documents like leases, wills, contracts and the property conveyances. Sometime they need to attend court or police cells with the solicitor. They should develop the proper knowledge in law field including the criminal law, probate, conveyance and family laws.

Admirable secretarial skills are crucial, as it's very important that entire legal documents are accurate and precise. Legal Secretaries require to be an efficient, accountable and very well-organized. Good communication skills, ability to work under the pressure, and be able of dealing with all the work in confidential manner are all invaluable assets in this type of work.

Smart appearance is also recognized feature in legal secretary. A legal secretary should attentive to detail, have the good proof-reading skills, efficient, serene, and always be able to manage multiple tasks at once.

The sample legal secretary resume will help you to build your own resume for applying to the job of legal secretary.

Sample Legal Secretary Resume

Richard Anderson
1234, West 67 Street,
Carlisle, MA 01741,
(123)-456 7890.

Objective: A position as the legal secretary that fully uses my experience and skills.

Experience:

Legal Secretary (1997 to Present)
Willburn & Bates, San Diego, California

• Head assistant to 2-senior partners.
• Accountable for court filings, legal documentation preparation, planning depositions, phone calls and the doctor appointments, and heavy filing.

Receptionist (1992 to 1996)
Hope Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas

• Accountable for phones calls, scheduling appointments, filing, computing, Spanish/English translations with family members/patients, medical billing, medical transcribing and data entry.

Skills and Training

• Windows 95/98/2000/NT
• PowerPoint
• Quark
• Excel
• Lotus 1-2-3
• 75 wpm

Education:

Arlington College, Arlington, Texas
A.A., Business Administration (1992)