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Legal Secretary Qualifications

What is a legal secretary?

Legal secretaries give administrative support to lawyers, legal executives and paralegals, and often help with the daily tasks.

The main responsibility of legal secretaries is to type letters and other legal documents such as wills, contracts, leases and court documents. Other duties may also include dealing with correspondence, organising diaries, filing and other clerical work.

Legal secretary training

If you would like to work as an administrator/secretary then our legal secretary qualifications may be for you.

In conjunction with City & Guilds, CILEx offers an extensive range of basic practical qualifications for legal secretaries. These are the UK's most popular paralegal qualifications. Over 20,000 people have chosen these qualifications to advance their career.

Our Level 2 qualifications are ideal if you wish to become a legal secretary and have no previous secretarial or administrative experience, although you do need to be able to use a keyboard. They are set at GCSE level.

The Level 3 qualifications are suitable if you are already a secretary or an administrator and you wish to move into the legal field or build on your current legal secretarial skills. They are set at A-Level.

Further information

Read more about the stages of training required to become a legal secretary. Alternatively, to receive a prospectus or join our email list fill out our online form today.