Working in the Legal Environment

Is This for You?

If you’re looking to work in a Legal office as a Legal Secretary or Assistant, this course will enable you to prove to employers that you have reputable and professional training focused specifically on the Legal environment..

Award and Associated Qualifications

cpd

Awarded 20 CPD points upon successful completion

About this course

This Working in the Legal Environment course has been endorsed by CILEX (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) and is ideal for those seeking to start a career in a legal office as a Legal Secretary, Legal Assistant or Paralegal.

The course will help you develop an understanding of working relationships, effective communication skills and internal and external customer service.

Working in a Legal environment means it’s important to show you have knowledge of what it means to work in an legal environment. Legal employers highly value professional, qualified legal secretarial training, and this fantastic self-study course offers you an excellent opportunity to go on and obtain a Pitman/CILEx Qualification.

The course is structured as follows:

Introduction

  • Module One: The main admin services within a legal office.
  • Module Two: Different organisational structures.
  • Module Three: The judicial system in the UK.
  • Module Four: Health and safety at work.
  • Module Five: Organising resources and time.
  • Module Six: Telephone systems.
  • Module Seven: Documentation including audio.
  • Module Eight: Filing including digital.
  • Module Nine: Effective communication.
  • Module Ten: Dealing with post and reprographics.

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Aims and Objectives

This course has been designed for those looking for a Career as a Legal Secretary, Legal Assistant or Paralegal. On successful completion of the course, you will gain a prestigious Pitman Training/CILEX Certificate.

Pre-Requisites

Before starting this course, it would be preferable if you had previous experience of Microsoft Word.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

This course will give you experience on working in a legal environment that a Legal Secretary should know. Great experience if you’re keen to work in this specific type of administration role.