Employers seeking professional legal administrators understand the value of having certified, practical skills, and our Legal Secretarial training offers students a great opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience.
Gaining specialist secretarial skills, which focus on the Legal sector, can lead to a rewarding and prosperous career, opening doors to legal secretarial roles.
Employers looking to hire legal secretaries, not only look for relevant certifications in the legal field, but also a good grounding in office based skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, meetings and minutes and effective business and documents production. Being able to showcase a broad range of skills, including the specialist legal areas will certainly help to make you stand out in front of employers.
Across the legal world there are different sectors which a practice could focus on, such as Company Law, Family Law or Wills & Probate, amongst many more. All sectors use specialist terminology and processes, and it's essential to gain a thorough understanding of these.
As you continue your journey, working in a legal secretarial role, you will also find requirements to keep up to date with CPD. All of our Pitman Training courses are CPD accredited, and we have a range of courses which will help to bolster your efficiencies as a Legal Secretary, including a full range of paralegal training courses and speedwriting courses which will ensure you don't miss a word!
Our range of Legal Secretarial courses starts from a general introduction into the role of the legal secretary, and progresses through to six specialist options to choose from, which focus on some of the most common legal sectors. As always, you can study at a centre near you or, if you need more flexibility in when and where you study, you could choose to study your legal secretary courses online.
Whether you're a newly-experienced secretary or you've been in the role for a while, becoming a Legal Secretary is within your reach. Our Legal Secretarial courses are designed to give you the specialist knowledge and understanding that is required to work within the legal profession or the legal department of a large company. With your legal secretary diploma training you'll be able to confidently display your sector specific skills, with a broad understanding of various aspects of the law, including terminology, the court system and legal personnel.
We can also offer online Legal Secretarial training, as our courses can be done either online or within one of our handy local centres. See below for the full range of Legal Secretarial courses we offer at Pitman Training.
This diploma combines the high quality, professional training you come to expect from Pitman Training with specialist course materials from the renowned CILEx (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives).
With this Diploma you will get a versatile, professional set of skills that will enable you to pursue a career as a Legal Secretary or Legal Administrator within a legal office which practises Scots Law.
A shorter version of the main diploma, this award will give you key Legal Secretary skills brought to you in conjunction with CILEx (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives).
This course utilises CILEx specialist course materials and looks at six different legal specialisms to gain an understanding of the documentation that needs to be transcribed in each area.
The course utilises CILEx specialist course materials and will introduce you to the various forms of documentation, terminology and processes associated with six different legal specialist including Family Law, Criminal Litigation and Conveyancing.
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We hold a standout reputation for the quality of our secretarial training courses. We can help you gain the professional, practical skills that will help you impress employers.
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