Legal Secretary Courses

Online Legal Secretary and Legal Word Processor Courses

Legal Secretary Courses

Legal Secretary Courses

OnlineCE offers Legal Secretary and Legal Word Processor Courses

 

The legal system is expanding at a break-neck pace. According to the Department of Labor, the legal services industry will translate into employment growth for legal office support personnel nationwide. Bilingual skills are especially in demand! Legal secretaries and legal word processors belong to one of the most employable groups in the world. One important reason is that the skills necessary to become a skilled legal secretary or legal word processor carry over to many other positions, professions, and businesses.

We would like to present our course: Creating Legal Documents.

The instruction presented is practice-oriented and relates to those areas of law in which legal secretaries and word processors are most highly needed. The step-by-step training in the course will emphasize mastery of computer applications and formats applicable to the legal office, and familiarity with legal office theory and procedure.

 

Considering that there are nearly 800,000 lawyers working in the country, many of whom are in mid-size to large firms, there is a strong foundation for the need of legal office assistants. Divided amongst federal or local government offices, corporations, schools and non-profit organizations, each of these working attorneys rely on the services and skills of legal secretaries or legal word processors. The work is available. All you need is the skill.

 

Our comprehensive step-by-step training curriculum won’t waste your time with features irrelevant to the legal community. Every example and hands-on exercise is aimed at producing top quality legal documents in a minimal amount of time. The Illustrations highlight each of the instructions for extra clarification and to ease your understanding of the processes required. The course will provide those interested in a career change with new, marketable job skills and help those already working as legal secretaries to increase efficient and productivity in their offices. The training modules were designed for those who have secretarial skills and for those who have no previous experience in law. It is also suitable for existing Legal Secretaries, Word Processors or Legal Assistants who would like to further their knowledge of law and procedure and gain a formal qualification.

 

The course is a premier employer-vetted step-by-step curriculum customized to build critical and marketable job skills! In one affordable package are detailed procedures and step-by-step instructions on preparing and completing legal documents, such as forms and letters, agreements, legal definitions, style standards, case citations, outline numbering formats, background information, step-by-step guidelines, statement of procedure, and plenty of hands-on exercises.

 

Intense research and surveys with legal employers served as a vital resource for learning about what is happening within the legal support industry. The most common legal office training courses are generic and do not offer a structured legal training program and/or legal word processing courses that are tailored to meet the demands of the legal secretarial and word processing opportunities in today’s market. The field for the legal secretary and the legal word processor has jobs and solid career paths left untaken due to a lack of people qualified to fill them. Because of the lack of legal training programs and/or training courses, this course was written to respond to the educational needs while increasing knowledge, skills, and networking opportunities. In today’s competitive job market, continuing education is a smart investment in yourself and your future.

 

Educational Objectives for Creating Legal Documents:

  • Create a legal agreement cover page
  • Create a legal pleading caption page
  • Clean up and format documents
  • Create, edit and apply paragraph/number styles
  • Apply List Number Field codes
  • Copy styles between documents
  • Apply Table Entry fields
  • Create, edit, and insert various footnote numbers and characters in the same document
  • Create the perfect signature page
  • Create white letters on a black background (advanced table shading)
  • Sort paragraphs
  • Create, define, and generate a table of contents
  • Create and insert footnotes
  • Mark citations for a table of authorities
  • Define and generate a table of authorities
  • Modify Tables of Authorities
  • Custom design Table of Authorities
  • Use Case citations
  • Mark for an index
  • Define and generate an index
  • Mark for a cross-reference
  • Apply a cross-reference
  • Name and Insert bookmarks
  • Set up and track changes
  • Compare documents and use redlining
  • Apply variation on track changes
  • Create various legal captions
  • Create vertical line numbers and borders
  • Use the Pleading Wizard
  • Create the main document and data source
  • Merge the main document and data source
  • Create and merge envelopes and labels
  • Replace symbols using the keyboard shortcut keys