National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016 Version 1.3
- 1 - Business, finance and administration occupations
- 12 - Administrative and financial supervisors and administrative occupations
- 124 - Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical
1242 - Legal administrative assistants
Legal administrative assistants perform a variety of secretarial and administrative duties in law offices, legal departments of large firms, real estate companies, land title offices, municipal, provincial and federal courts and government.
Illustrative example(s)
- administrative assistant - legal
- corporate law legal assistant
- legal assistant
- legal assistant - criminal law
- legal secretary
- litigation legal assistant
- litigation secretary
- real estate secretary
Exclusion(s)
- By-law clerks (See 1452 Correspondence, publication and regulatory clerks)
- Court recorders (See 1251 Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations)
- Paralegal and related occupations (See 4211 Paralegal and related occupations)
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
- Prepare and key in correspondence and legal documents, such as deeds, wills, affidavits and briefs, from handwritten copy, shorthand and machine dictation using computers
- Review and proofread documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures and grammatical usage
- Schedule appointments, meetings and conferences for employer
- Set up and maintain filing systems, utilizing knowledge of legal records and procedures and frequently controlling confidential materials and documents
- Open and distribute regular and electronic incoming mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information internally and with other departments or organizations
- Determine and establish office procedures and routines
- May supervise and train other staff in procedures and in the use of current software
- May attend court, meetings or conferences to take notes, minutes and dictation
- May perform other general office work as required including preparing financial statements.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a one- or two-year college or other program for secretaries or legal secretaries is usually required.
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