Becoming a Legal Secretary in Queensland

About this role

Legal Secretaries perform secretarial, clerical and other administrative tasks in support of Legal Professionals, applying knowledge of legal terminology, procedures and documents.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Legal Secretary include:

• liaises with other staff to arrange meetings, and to gain and provide information
• prepares reports, briefing notes and correspondence, and proofreads work for typographical and grammatical errors
• maintains diaries and makes travel arrangements
• processes incoming and outgoing mail, filing correspondence and maintains records
• answers telephone calls, responds to inquiries and redirects callers
• takes and transcribes dictation of letters and other documents
• greets visitors, ascertains nature of business and directs visitors to appropriate personal
• may implement management decisions and maintain records of meetings.