Occupation Atlaslegal administrative assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0264b794-3771-47aa-a675-78bf13b62ee7
legal administrative assistant
Legal administrative assistants carry out the daily administrative activities of firms, offices of notaries, and companies. They perform activities such as writing mails, phone-answering and typing/keyboarding. They combine these activities with specific knowledge and understanding of the procedures and codes managed in legal business affairs.
Job Zone
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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.
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Occupational interest profile
CESConventional · Enterprising · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.69
- E Enterprising4.42
- S Social3.17
- I Investigative2.91
- A Artistic1.55
- R Realistic1.41
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 Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (43-6012.00): 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 (11)
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.
- communicate by telephone
- compile legal documents
- legal department processes
- legal terminology
- manage personnel agenda
- meet deadlines for preparing legal cases
- observe confidentiality
- perform clerical duties
- perform office routine activities
- private law
- procedural law
Optional (18)
- apply technical communication skills
- brief court officials
- civil law
- civil process order
- court procedures
- decode handwritten texts
- fix meetings
- handle case evidence
- issue sales invoices
- legal case management
- legal research
- liaise with typists
- manage accounts
- manage digital documents
- revise legal documents
- study court hearings
- translate keywords into full texts
- use word processing software
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.
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