There are lots of different reasons to become a Legal Secretary, including the varied working life, the opportunities to advance your career and increase your earning potential, and the chance to learn about our legal system in depth so that you gain a better understanding of how it governs our society.

In this course you will learn administrative management skills, organisational skills and essential office management skills.

You will also learn skills required for a legal secretary such as:

• Fundamental concepts of the legal office,

• Billing, preparing legal documents, contracts, family law, business law,

• Business and telephone etiquette,

• Meeting management and minute taking skills

By working as a Legal Secretary, you can get to know a wide range of different legal procedures and build up experience in a large number of different legal areas. This will give you the opportunity to work your way up the ladder into other roles such as Legal PA, Paralegal or even Legal Executive.

There are no entry requirements for the course, however we recommend that you have a good typing speed, computer literacy, an understanding of Microsoft Word, and a good standard of spoken and written English.