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How to become a Legal Secretary in the England or Wales

I hope you find the following information on Legal Secretarial/PA jobs useful.

THE ROLE

Legal secretaries assist in all aspects of running a law firm. The legal secretaries¡¦ jobs can include basic tasks such as word processing, audio-typing and dealing with general clerical work. Some legal secretary work can include meeting clients, arranging meeting and some even attend court or police cells.

Legal Secretary jobs can incorporate all areas of law – from criminal and civil law to property, family, corporate, private client and banking.

SKILLS and INTERESTS

If you are looking for a Legal Secretary job you should:

Have an interest in law

Have excellent secretarial skills

Be PC literate

Be accurate and methodical

Be discreet when dealing with confidential information

Have a good standard of English, spelling and grammar

Work well under pressure and be good a meeting deadlines

Of course, a polite friendly manner helps!

A mix of these skills would provide a solid foundation for anyone looking for jobs as a legal secretary

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QUALIFICATIONS

There are no formal qualifications to becoming a Legal Secretary, athough a high standard of general education is required. To become a Legal Secretary office and administration experience is useful as is some existing knowledge of the law.

Career Development

Employers often offer on the job training. There are different pathways that lead to legal secretarial qualifications:

** The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PA¡¦s

The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PA¡¦s offer a diploma that¡¦s has been recognised as the most comprehensive qualification for Legal Secretaries. The diploma is extremely useful if you are looking for jobs as a Legal Secretary. The syllabus for the general diploma is divided into five main units:

Outline of the English Legal System

Outlines of the Law of Contract and the Law of Tort

Conveyancing and an outline of Land Law

Civil Litigation

Succession (Wills, Probate and Administration)

The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PA¡¦s also offers courses for Legal Secretaries who would like to specialise in one are of law.

The subjects covered are:

- Civil Litigation

- Company and Corporate Law

- Conveyancing

- Criminal Law and Practice

- Matrimonial Law and Family Practice Succession

Click here for Institute Of Legal Secretaries Website and further information: http://www.institutelegalsecretaries.com

** ILEX Legal Secretaries Certificate & Diploma

ILEX offer a Legal Secretaries Certificate (Level 2) and a Legal Secretaries Diploma (Level 3)

The ILEX Paralegal Programmes (ILEXPP) for Legal Secretaries are now considered the benchmark for those aspiring to or working in a legal environment as secretaries or personal assistants. Reflecting the National Standards in Administration, the programmes offer: a flexible route,
no entry requirements (although a Grade C or above in English Language GCSE is desirable),
a choice of when and where to study, task based assignments which are all accompanied by up to date training manuals.”

The ILEX Legal Secretaries Certificate covers the following areas:

Legal Word Processing

Administration in the Legal Environment

Communication Skills in the Legal Environment

Information Processing in the Legal Environment

The ILEX Legal Secretaries Diploma covers the following areas:

Advanced Legal Word Processing

Advanced Administration in the Legal Environment

Advanced Communication Skills in the Legal Environment

Advanced Information Processing in the Legal Environment

Click here for ILEXPP Website and further information on the ILEX Tutorial (Training to be a Legal Secretary) Web pages

** OCR (RSA) Legal Word Processing

OCR(RSA)offers specialised qualifications in legal text and legal word processing. The course is for those with previous word processing experience who wish to specialise in legal work. This programme is ideal for those who are in employment or wish to gain employment in the legal sector. You will be taught about the production of a range of documents in a legal context. Legal styles and formats. Legal terminology and English grammar are also covered
Legal Text Processing is part of the OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) suite of qualifications in text processing which are widely recognised by employers as benchmark qualifications in text processing.

Candidates who are successful in achieving accreditation will be able to extend their range of text processing skills at intermediate level and progress to different optional units within the suite of units at Level 2 or to progress to the OCR Text Processing Advanced (Level 3) qualification.

Legal Secretaries work in all areas of law from solicitors offices, barristers chambers through to law courts, police stations and within in house legal teams. It is possible to start as a legal secretary and work towards becoming a legal executive, paralegal or a licensed conveyancer. You could even study for a law degree.

Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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10 Reasons To Start A Home Based Business

1) Time Freedom – L.O.V.E. is spelled T.I.M.E. For most people, they go to work in order to pay the bills and don’t even get to see their family. With time freedom, think about what you can actually do with your family or close friends. Would you go to the beach or travel to another country? How would you spend time with your family? Think about this.. you can replace money but cannot replace time. Most people work all their lives and never really get to do the things they’ve always wanted to do. By having a successful home based business, you can finally have all the time you want to do all the things you are truly passionate about and with the people you love most.2) Financial Independence – Speaking of replacing money, do you know what residual income is? Residual income is doing something one time and getting paid over and over and over again for life. And how would you feel if you received so much residual income you didn’t have to go to work anymore, worry about paying your house, groceries, and paying off your car note? You’d feel amazing, right?Because you’d be free.. financially free. With a home based business there is unlimited income potential.3) Work Your Own Hours – You can start part time even if you’re still at your job. Then when your residual income surpasses your monthly income, you can now fire your boss.4) Be Your Own Boss – Work when you want, where you want, and if you want. What more can I say. You are the boss.5) Work From Anywhere In The World – Imagine working in your shorts from home. I meant the office. No, what I really meant was the beach. Truth is, you can work anywhere in the world with just having a cell phone and a laptop.6) Choose To Work Independently Or With A Team – You can choose whether to work by yourself or with a team. You’re in a business for yourself but never by yourself. You can create the environment you want by choosing the people you want to work with.7) Create Long Term Wealth – Generational Wealth. Heard of it? All successful millionaires and billionaires have generational wealth. It’s where their money makes more money onto the next generation and even the next generation after that. You can change your family’s finances and create long term wealth through a home based business.8) Low Start Up Cost – Compared to a franchise business like McDonald’s (which takes about $1.5 million to start up), you can buy a into a proven system that will allow you to leverage both your time, effort, and money. But instead, when starting up you only invest a couple hundred to a couple of thousand dollars into a home based business.9) Tax Advantages – Just by having a home based business, you will get to experience the same tax advantages as the wealthy. That also means you get a lot more money back which is usually more than you initially invested into the business.”Having a home based business is one of the best tax strategies ever.”-In the Tax Times newspaper”Why you would be brain dead not to start a home based business (if you don’t already have one).”-In Lower Your Taxes – BIG TIME by former IRS attorney Sandy Botkin10) Give Back/Help Others – Home based businesses can allow you to donate to charities, good causes, churches, volunteer work and help build communities. Also with a home based business in itself, you are helping people everywhere and changing the world.

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