Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma

Description

Every legal executive and busy solicitor needs an efficient Legal Secretary in their office, and you get the training and confidence to take that role. This comprehensive course is designed to give you the abilities and knowledge to work in a law firm, regardless of your current experience in this area. The Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma course contains a range of modules that will rapidly teach you the skills needed to succeed in law office administration. You will learn how to produce, update, and distribute forms that will form the basis of contracts. Additionally, you will gain extensive knowledge of the UK Justice System.

You may have to take a quiz or a written test online during or after the course. After successfully completing the course, you will be eligible for the certificate.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Our Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma is fully compatible with PC's, Mac's, Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone devices. This course has been designed to be fully compatible on tablets and smartphones so you can access your course on wifi, 3G or 4G.There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

Having these various qualifications will increase the value in your CV and open you up to multiple sectors such as Business & Management , Admin, Accountancy & Finance, Secretarial & PA, Teaching & Mentoring etc.

9 sections • 65 lectures • 14:00:00 total length

•Introduction to Legal Secretary: 00:15:00

•Role of Legal Secretaries: 00:15:00

•General Duties and Day-to-Day Operations of a Legal Secretary: 00:30:00

•Record Keeping: 00:30:00

•Legal Writing Skills & Proofreading: 00:15:00

•Research Skills You Need to Know: 00:30:00

•Transcription, Editing & Correspondence to Judges: 00:30:00

•Legal System of UK: 00:15:00

•UK Court System: 00:30:00

•Meeting Management: 00:15:00

•The Role of a Minute-Taker: 00:15:00

•The Skills of a Minute-Taker: 00:30:00

•Meeting Agreements: 00:15:00

•Minute Styles: 00:30:00

•What Do I Record?: 00:30:00

•Techniques for Preparing Minutes: 00:30:00

•Taking Minutes in an Interactive Meeting: 00:15:00

•The Minute Book: 00:15:00

•What to include/what to ignore: 00:30:00

•Motions and Resolutions: 00:05:00

•Method of recording minutes: 00:30:00

•Reasons for Meeting: 00:30:00

•What is a decision?: 00:15:00

•Minute Taking tips: 00:30:00

•Working with Your Manager: 01:00:00

•Administrative Soft Skills: 01:00:00

•Effective Time Management: 01:00:00

•Tools of the Trade: 01:00:00

•Being an Effective Gatekeeper: 00:15:00

•Organizational Skills: 00:15:00

•Confidentiality Guidelines: 00:15:00

•Special Tasks: 00:15:00

•Introduction To Customer Service: 00:15:00

•The Power of Positive Thinking in Customer Service: 00:30:00

•Types of Difficult Customers and How to Help them: 01:00:00

•How to Deal with Difficult Customers: 00:30:00

•Aspects of Phone Etiquette: 01:00:00

•Using Proper Phone Language: 01:00:00

•Eliminate Phone Distractions: 01:00:00

•Inbound Calls: 01:00:00

•Outbound Calls: 01:00:00

•Handling Rude or Angry Callers: 01:00:00

•Handling Interoffice Calls: 01:00:00

•Methods of Training Employees: 01:00:00

•Correcting Poor Telephone Etiquette: 01:00:00

•Opening: 01:00:00

•Working with the Interface: 01:00:00

•Your First Document: 01:00:00

•Basic Editing Tasks: 01:00:00

•Basic Formatting Tasks: 01:00:00

•Formatting Paragraphs: 01:00:00

•Advanced Formatting Tasks: 01:00:00

•Working with Styles: 01:00:00

•Formatting the Page: 01:00:00

•Sharing Your Document: 01:00:00

•Introduction to Proofreading: 00:15:00

•What does a Proofreader do?: 00:15:00

•Proofreading: 00:15:00

•Proofreading Symbols: 00:15:00

•Proofreading on Paper & Screen: 00:15:00

•Strategies to Check for Specific Errors: 00:15:00

•Editing & Proofreading Strategies: 00:15:00

•Proofreading an Essay: 00:15:00

•Mock Exam - Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma: 00:20:00

•Final Exam - Legal Secretaries Advanced Diploma: 00:20:00