Occupation Atlaslegal assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/929ef41d-afd0-4d5a-b85b-69eab68fa368
legal assistant
Legal assistants work closely together with lawyers and legal representatives in the research and preparation of cases brought to courts. They assist in the paper work of cases and management of the administrative side of court affairs.
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Job Zone
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- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CIEConventional · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.28
- I Investigative5.04
- E Enterprising3.92
- S Social3.12
- A Artistic2.24
- R Realistic1.74
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Paralegals and Legal Assistants (23-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- compile legal documents
- court procedures
- execute working instructions
- handle case evidence
- legal case management
- legal department processes
- legal research
- legal terminology
- manage accounts
- meet deadlines for preparing legal cases
- pose questions referring to documents
- private law
- revise legal documents
- study court hearings
- use word processing software
Optional (14)
- advise on legal services
- apply technical communication skills
- assist judge
- brief court officials
- civil law
- civil process order
- criminal law
- manage personnel agenda
- perform clerical duties
- perform office routine activities
- process commissioned instructions
- proofread text
- record court procedures
- respond to enquiries
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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