Diploma in Legal Secretary
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Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Intermediate
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
27h
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Duration
Flexible
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Start date
Different dates available
For a lawyer, it is very hard to manage all of his/her clients, remember and organize their legal stuff, keep record of case filings, appointments, and record all the legal documents at the same. To manage, organize and schedule all of this stuff, they need the extra help of a legal secretary. If you are someone who is looking into this option, then this Diploma in Legal Secretary is perfect for you.
Using this course materials, you can easily garner skills and knowledge in to become successful in highly demanding law industry. The course curriculum has been divided deliberately into into five sections for your learning convenience; legal secretary, meeting management and minute taking, secretarial roles and responsibilities, customer service role, and finally work using MS word. Initially, you will get basic knowledge as a legal secretary and learn about teamwork and attention to detail. This course will further teach you about managing meetings, keeping records with a different filing system, developing research skills, managing transcription for judges, and basic computer knowledge.
In any overall outlook, this course comes as a whole package which will help you become a legal secretary.
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Diploma in Legal Secretary is CPD certified and CiQ Gold accredited. This makes it perfect for anyone trying to learn potential professional skills.
As there is no experience and qualification required for this course, it is available for all students from any academic backgrounds.
Our Diploma in Legal Secretary is fully compatible with any kind of device. Whether you are using Windows computer, Mac, smartphones or tablets, you will get the same experience while learning. Besides that, you will be able to access the course with any kind of internet connection from anywhere at any time without any kind of limitation.
On receiving your request an academic officer from the course will call you to explain everything about the course, including how you can sign up, payment options and enrollment periods
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Subjects
- Secretarial
- Legal Secretary
- Minute Taking
- Word
- Customer Service
- Proofreading
- Secretary
- Ms Word
- Effective Time Management
- Confidentiality Guidelines
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COURSE CURRICULUM
Legal Secretary
- Introduction to Legal Secretary
- Role of Legal Secretaries
- General Duties and Day-to-Day Operations of a Legal Secretary
- Record Keeping
- Legal Writing Skills & Proofreading
- Research Skills You Need to Know
- Transcription, Editing & Correspondence to Judges
- Legal System of UK
- UK Court System
Meeting Management & Minute Taking
- Meeting Management
- What to include/what to ignore
- What Minutes are
- Motions and Resolutions
- Method of recording minutes
- Reasons for Meeting
- What is a decision?
- Minute Taking tips
Other Secretarial Roles and Responsibilities
- Working with Your Manager
- Administrative Soft Skills
- Effective Time Management
- Tools of the Trade
- Being an Effective Gatekeeper
- Organizational Skills
- Confidentiality Guidelines
- Special Tasks
Customer Service Role
- Introduction To Customer Service
- The Power of Positive Thinking in Customer Service
- Types of Difficult Customers and How to Help them
- How to Deal with Difficult Customers
Organizing Work Using MS Word
- Opening
- Working with the Interface
- Your First Document
- Basic Editing Tasks
- Basic Formatting Tasks
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Advanced Formatting Tasks
- Working with Styles
- Formatting the Page
- Sharing Your Document
Proof Reading
- Introduction to Proofreading
- What does a Proofreader do?
- Proofreading
- Proofreading Symbols
- Proofreading on Paper & Screen
- Editing & Proofreading Strategies
- Proofreading an Essay
Diploma in Legal Secretary