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Legal Secretary

Law and Crime


  • Average Salary

    RM3053 - RM 5031

  • Career Trends

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  • Compability

What is Legal Secretary?

Perform secretarial tasks using terminology, procedures, and legal documents. Prepare legal documents and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, cues, and subpoenas. Can also help with legal research.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM3053 - RM 5031

Example of a Job Position

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Secretary

Task

? Perform secretarial tasks using terminology, procedures, and legal documents ? Prepare legal documents and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, cues, and subpoenas ? Prepare and process legal documents and letters, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, and pretrial agreements ? Organizing and maintaining legal libraries, documents and case files ? Make schedules and appointments

Knowledge

Administrative

Knowledge of administrative procedures and systems, such as managing words, managing documents and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles including strategic planning, resource allocation, human resource modeling, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination between people and resources.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Law and Governance

Knowledge of laws, legal rules, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, institutional rules, and democratic political processes.

Personnel and Human Resources

Knowledge of principles and procedures in recruiting personnel, selection, training, compensation and benefits, worker relations and negotiations, as well as personnel information systems.

Skills

Talking

Talk to others to convey information effectively

Writing

Communicate effectively through writing that suits the needs of the audience

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Capability

  • 1

    Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences

  • 2

    Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

  • 3

    Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing