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Legal Administrative Assistant Diploma

Imagine the start of your New Life…

As a Legal Administrative Assistant, you are constantly busy and are a critical member of the legal team. The day may start off helping your lawyer prepare documents for the court case to be attended the next day. Next, the phone rings and it’s a new client looking for legal advice on how to handle incorporating their new business. Mornings carry on with phone calls, preparing documents and answering questions. In the afternoon, a newlywed couple comes by to sign the papers they need for the new house they purchased. Before you know it, the day is done and it’s time to go home. You know you made a difference in the lives of the firms clients. Being a Legal Administrative Assistant means no two days are exactly the same and that’s exactly how you wanted your career to be. Legal assistants perform a variety of secretarial and administrative duties in law offices, legal departments of large firms, real estate companies, land title offices, municipal, provincial and federal courts and government. The program offered at Canadian College will help develop your skills in legal research and report writing, PC Law, legal office procedures, and more. In addition, you will gain basic bookkeeping knowledge in programs like Sage 50, and how to become proficient in Microsoft Office.

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You’ll gain hands-on practical experience throughout the Legal Administrative Assistant program. Your instructors are experts in their field who actively work in their profession. They bring in real life examples of how to apply the theory you are learning in each class. Throughout the Legal Administrative Assistant program, you will learn:

Legal office procedures
How to become proficient in Microsoft Office
Basic bookkeeping using programs like Sage
How to perform legal research and report writing
PC Law

Benefit From A College Where You Come First

Your goal of going to school is to prepare for a career that you love and can enjoy for years to come. The hardest part of graduating is finding your first position in your new career. The Canadian College of Health, Science and Technology is there for you to get you going in the right direction. The college has a dedicated Career Services department which offers:

Job search workshops
Resume writing workshops
Interview skills workshops
And more

The college acts as a hub connecting you to a variety of employment resources in Windsor to help move you from student to professional.

LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FAST FACTS:

Produce accurate legal correspondence on time using as well as applying recording, editing, and language skills
Troubleshoot and show initiative in the creation and production of accurate documentation for civil, corporate, real estate, family, and wills and estates law.
Apply scheduling, task coordination, and organizational skills to facilitate the completion of tasks and to meet deadlines in the legal environment.
Areas of concentration include litigation, family, corporate, real estate and estate law. Workplace simulations assist you in transferring the learned skills and knowledge to the work environment.

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* All student funding, whether made available privately or through various government branches, is only approved to those who qualify, by the original source of funding. There are many criteria that each candidate must meet to be approved. Schools can only inform you of what may be available.