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Legal Associate Professionals

Legal associate professionals provide administrative support for legal professionals, and investigate and make recommendations on legal matters that do not fall within the province of a normal court of law.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 16,274
£ 26,071
£ 50,766

New workers start around £16,274. Normal pay is £26,071 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £50,766.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 89,097 vacancies for this type of job

2.98%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Assists in all aspects of property conveyancing and probate and common law practice.

  • Attends court to assist barristers and solicitors in the presentation of a case.

  • Interviews and advises clients, undertakes preparatory work for court cases.

  • Collates information, drafts briefs and other documents.

  • Runs chambers on behalf of principals, develops the practice, manages the flow of work, decides which cases to accept, arranges appropriate fees and prepares financial records.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Conveyancing

  • Lawsuits

  • Administrative Support

  • Legal Research

  • Finance

  • Legal Support

  • Personal Injury Law

  • Billing

  • Mortgage Loans

  • Marketing

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Management

  • Detail Oriented

  • Sales

  • Organizational Skills

  • Customer Service

  • Filing

  • Administrative Functions

  • Time Management

  • Advising

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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