This Legal Secretary Training Course is for Secretaries who wish to improve their skills and work more efficiently. The course covers a comprehensive range of skills essential for working in the legal profession. The course combines expert secretary skills with an understanding of legal terminology.
Your role as a legal secretary is a crucial link between client and lawyers. At the end of this Legal Secretary Training Course you will learn how to successfully complete a complex array of administrative tasks relating to the job, such as compiling confidential letters, typing reports for client records and legal journals and ensuring the general running of the office.
Course Content
Why Choose PDL?
Locations
Onsite Training
What is covered in this Legal Secretary Training?
- The role of the Legal Secretary
- Being prepared to cope with the unexpected
- Planning and organising someone else’s time with skill and sensitivity, when required
- Legal Terminology
- Time management
- Learn how much time to leave for travel allowances
- How to prepare and deal with last minute arrangements and cancellations
- Assertiveness training
- How to say "no" without becoming intimidating or aggressive
- Learn how to effectively handle any conflict
- Step-by-step guidelines on discussing how to solve a problem, calmly and effectively
- Communication skills
- Learn how to communicate through body language
- Tips on how to always remain thinking positive
- Gain invaluable listening skills, to help you be more responsive and well-organized
- How to successfully deal with difficult people and difficult situations
- Learn to work for more than one person
- Why it is important to remain confidential in your work
- How to maintain an effective and professional telephone manner, even in times of stress
- How to properly organise travel papers and phone numbers so they are easily found
- Diary management
- How to project an image of self-confidence and professionalism
- Learn how to keep everything in order and deal with the unexpected
Why should you choose Professional Development?
We are Ireland's largest provider of training and education courses in Ireland. Our head office is in Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin with regional centres in Cork, Limerick, Galway and the UK. We have a team of 25 trainers supported by a customer service team. We run practical, down to earth courses helping participants develop skills and confidence.
- Ireland's first corporate training company to achieve FETAC Accreditation
- Exporter of training courses to UK and Europe
- Regular contributors to National Press and TV on management and personal development
We run our courses nationwide with four training centres in Dublin.
This Legal Secretary Training Course combines expert secretary skills with an understanding of legal terminology. At the end of this Legal Secretary Training Course you will learn how to successfully complete a complex array of administrative tasks relating to the job, such as compiling confidential letters, typing reports for client records and legal journals and ensuring the general running of the office.
