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Legal Assistants
This program's goal is to support the development of an institutional, organizational, and policy framework that helps people start and grow profitable agro pastoral companies.
Course Overview
A legal assistant is a legal professional who completes work, typically administrative, on behalf of a lawyer.
Part of the value of a legal assistant is that their exact role and responsibilities can vary depending on a law firm’s specific needs. However, a legal assistants is an individuals whose work output includes some administrative and secretarial tasks to assist an attorney, with some tasks overlapping with that of a paralegal. These paralegal tasks include legal research, if the individual has sufficient training and experience.
Course Overview
Legal assistants work closely with attorneys to take care of some of the time-consuming administrative work that reduces lawyer efficiency and productivity.
A legal assistant completes necessary routine tasks on behalf of a lawyer. The job often includes elements of administration, customer service, and coordination
What you’ll learn
- Managing client communications and customer service. From answering calls and emails to responding to a live chat to greeting clients, legal assistants can help make a law firm’s communications more responsive. With legal assistants, firms can deliver a better experience.
- Calendar coordination. Legal assistants can schedule meetings and interviews and make appointments for lawyers and clients.
- Legal research and writing. On behalf of an attorney, a legal assistant may be able to conduct legal research and help with drafting or proofreading legal documents and -correspondence.
Client billing and accounting. Legal assistants can help lawyers send out and process invoices, as well assist with resolving billing issues with clients. - Document organization and management. This could include tasks like gathering documents that a lawyer needs for a case or filing and organizing documents.
Requirements
- Some knowledge of the Cameroon Law System
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