A paralegal and his duties

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

On job search sites, many people have come across the vacancy "Lawyer's assistant" more than once. At the same time, most applicants often have only one question in their heads - what kind of position is this. What does a legal assistant do and what are his professional duties? Here it is necessary to immediately say that in order to enter this position, a person needs to have a completed higher education. But the heads of some firms are also considering part-time students studying in the last courses of the law faculty. Learn more about this in this article.

A little about the most important thing

Who is a paralegal? This is an employee of a firm or institution who prepares important information, consults clients (when necessary) and performs all official assignments of a lawyer or legal adviser (in allorganizations, this position is called in its own way). There is simply nothing particularly difficult in working in such a position. After all, the legal assistant, as the secretary of the head, knows a lot, but is obliged to do what the boss says. Very often, people who begin their work in this position recall that this is how they mastered the basic basics of jurisprudence. By the way, many graduates of law faculties of universities are trying to get a job in this speci alty. After all, working in this way, you can get good skills and experience that are so necessary for a competent lawyer.

What are the duties

This is one of the most important questions of interest to all citizens who want to get a job in a firm for this position.

It must be said right away that there is no such vacancy in state and municipal institutions. Or it is very rare. Usually there is only one lawyer who fills out paperwork and acts in processes. It's really very difficult. Moreover, it can be quite difficult for one person to cope with a large amount of information. For this purpose, there is a position - a legal assistant. His duties include:

• preparation and printing of documents at the direction of the General Counsel (for example, lawsuits, complaints, claims, various applications for submission to the courts and other institutions);
• providing legal assistance to clients (signing contracts, agreements);
• work with regulatory frameworks, constant monitoringupdates in legislation;
• receiving and sending letters to the parties to the process, to judicial and law enforcement agencies;
• ability to work with office equipment and e-mail.

Thus, after working in this position for several years, a person will become a highly qualified specialist and will be able to find another, better paid job.

General

The position of a paralegal is currently considered to be in high demand, although not highly paid. It is necessary for those young people who wish to make a successful career in the field of law and quickly move up the career ladder. It is for this reason that most law graduates of universities try to get jobs as legal assistants. After all, young professionals do not have the necessary experience and skills to work as a lawyer. But this is especially important.

Information in ads

Most law graduates try to find jobs on their own. The vacancy of a legal assistant is considered the most suitable for them than employment in other existing speci alties. After all, this position is very often accepted by part-time students studying in the last years of the university, or university graduates. If you look at at least one of these ads, you can see that employers here do not pursue the goal of finding an experienced and competent lawyer for a vacancy in the firm.

Therefore, the mainThe requirements for an applicant for the position of legal assistant will be the following:

• higher or secondary professional legal education;
• work experience preferred but not required;
• graduates or part-time students are being considered;
• desire to work, be sociable and polite in dealing with clients.

This is exactly the information that can be found in the media for a person who wants to find a job in this speci alty. Moreover, some employers do not indicate the amount of wages in the announcement. Most often, information is indicated that remuneration for work will be assigned based on the results of the interview.

Why people without skills are accepted

Everything is quite simple here. A legal assistant without work experience will not be able to demand a large salary from the head of the firm. Moreover, this position is not the main one, but a secondary one. This means that the assistant only prepares for the lawyer all the papers that are necessary for work, while he himself remains in the shadows. In litigation, assistants act in exceptional situations (for example, the lawyer himself fell ill or, due to life circumstances, cannot take part in the process of the case).

Thus, legal assistants are the same secretaries as the heads of organizations. Only they collect all the necessary documentation for the chief lawyer to facilitate his work and help prepare papers for the upcoming meeting.

Bcapital

Finding a good and well-paid job is not so easy. This is especially difficult for those graduates of Moscow universities who have decided to stay here and work, even without housing. As practice shows, there are quite a lot of them. Nevertheless, in Moscow the vacancy of a legal assistant is considered to be no less in demand than in other cities. Although the pay is not particularly prestigious.

On average, in Moscow, a legal assistant receives a salary of fifteen to thirty thousand rubles a month. For such a big city, this is very little money. Nevertheless, those graduates who cannot find another job in their speci alty are ready to go even to such a job. Moreover, this is a very good start to start working in the field of jurisprudence.

In addition to the above

I would like to say that getting a job in a private firm in Moscow as a legal assistant without experience and practical skills is not so difficult. Especially if a person has theoretical knowledge, a desire to work and gain new experience.

After all, when preparing and printing documents, a legal assistant without work experience learns a lot of new things, constantly works with the regulatory framework, monitors changes in legislation. Moreover, the preparation of claims, complaints and applications to the court also falls on the shoulders of this employee, if the lawyer himself does not have time to prepare all the necessary documents.

Therefore, if a law graduate of a university will constantly work with laws, regulations and othernormative acts, he will receive more theoretical knowledge, in the future he will be able to successfully apply it in practice. At the same time, when drawing up complaints and applications to the court, a young employee develops a certain skill in their execution. Thus, there is the work experience that is so necessary in order to become a qualified lawyer, and in the future, perhaps even a professional lawyer or judge. Therefore, young people need to be more serious about choosing their profession. After all, a good job should bring pleasure and a stable income. This must be remembered.

Necessary qualities

Working as a paralegal means constantly communicating with people. It is for this reason that this employee should be sociable and always try to help people.

Moreover, if a graduate started working in a private company, he must be very polite with customers. After all, the income of the company in which the employee works will directly depend on how many people apply there for qualified legal assistance. Therefore, if you start to communicate with customers very rudely and go beyond the boundaries of decent behavior, then you can be left without a job. This rule also applies to employees who work in government agencies.

In addition, a person who works as a legal assistant must be able to plan his time. This is necessary in order to have time to finish the work that has been started and to have time to complete the rest of the documents. This skill will be useful to a lawyer in the future. After alla professional in his field is simply obliged to do much more than all other employees. In addition, at the very beginning of his journey, the assistant legal adviser should try to be responsible and never let his boss down. Moreover, it is necessary to say about such a quality of a young specialist as diligence. It is necessary to try to carry out all the instructions of the chief lawyer quickly and accurately.

Highlights

Working as a legal assistant, a young employee gets the opportunity to consolidate his theoretical knowledge gained while studying at the university. Despite the fact that this position does not provide for the employee to protect the interests of clients in court, he is the right hand of his head (chief lawyer) and must prepare all documents for the latter to speak in the process.

However, in private firms, the daily job of an Assistant General Counsel is to work with office equipment, e-mail and make appointments for clients with their line manager.

I would also like to add that in order to become a really good specialist in their field and help people, a lawyer needs to work hard not only in the office, but also in his spare time to track changes in legislation. Moreover, you need to constantly improve your knowledge and practical skills.

Preference for candidates with higher education

Despite the fact that the vacancy of a legal assistant without work experience is considered acceptable not only for university graduates, but also for legalcolleges, but the leaders of organizations still prefer to hire people with higher education for this position. This is primarily due to the fact that universities train specialists for six years. Here, special attention is paid to the future work of young specialists, specialization is chosen.

In college, students receive only a set of basic knowledge in a very short amount. This is clearly not enough to become a professional in your field.

Helping people

The main task of a good lawyer is to solve the problems of people who find themselves in a difficult life situation. Indeed, in most cases, citizens who have violated the law, or those who are trying to protect their loved ones from unlawful accusations and condemnation, turn to such specialists for help.

Besides, there are very few really competent lawyers now, despite the fact that every year young people with a legal education graduate from universities. Therefore, the choice of a lawyer or a notary must be approached very consciously.

Result

At all times, the profession of a lawyer was considered very promising and very profitable. This is the reason why so many people want to go to law school. However, higher education is not considered a guarantee that the graduate will later become a good or first-class lawyer, investigator, or even judge. This requires good and long practice. It is for this reason that working as a paralegal can help young peoplespecialists to be realized in the chosen profession. After all, this is the only way to get the necessary work skills in a short time and apply the knowledge gained during training in practice.