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Where a legal administrative assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a legal administrative assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Legal administrative assistants carry out the daily administrative activities of firms, offices of notaries, and companies. They perform activities such as writing mails, phone-answering and typing/keyboarding. They combine these activities with specific knowledge and understanding of the procedures and codes managed in legal business affairs.

Also known as legal secretary, certified legal assistant, collection legal assistant, certified legal secretary specialist, litigation legal assistant, paralegal assistant, legal administrative secretary, litigation secretary, legal executive secretary, certified legal secretary.

Technicians and associate professionals 29 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: legal assistant, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
legal assistant 78% covered conveyance clerk 47% covered case administrator 41% covered court clerk 41% covered court administrative officer 40% covered legal administrative assi… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from legal administrative assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a legal administrative assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A legal administrative assistant needs 11 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • procedural law business, administration and law
  • meet deadlines for preparing legal cases management skills
  • legal department processes business, administration and law
  • manage personnel agenda management skills
  • private law business, administration and law
  • perform office routine activities management skills
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
  • compile legal documents information skills
  • perform clerical duties management skills
  • communicate by telephone communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a legal administrative assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Legal administrative assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a legal administrative assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.