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
Example of a Job Position
Task
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
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Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
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Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing