Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a legal assistant can go next

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

Legal assistants work closely together with lawyers and legal representatives in the research and preparation of cases brought to courts. They assist in the paper work of cases and management of the administrative side of court affairs.

Also known as paralegal, law clerk, public administration legal assistant, judicial assistant, legal aide, corporate law assistant, corporate legal assistant, paralegal specialist.

Technicians and associate professionals 29 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: legal administrative assistant, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
legal administrative assistant 71% covered conveyance clerk 53% covered court clerk 52% covered court administrative officer 51% covered case administrator 39% covered legal assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from legal 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 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 assistant needs 15 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
  • meet deadlines for preparing legal cases management skills
  • study court hearings information skills
  • legal department processes business, administration and law
  • revise legal documents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • pose questions referring to documents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • private law business, administration and law
  • handle case evidence communication, collaboration and creativity
  • legal case management business, administration and law
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
  • compile legal documents information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Legal 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 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.