When we enter a law office the first individual we meet is the legal secretary. She is the one with responsibility for the correspondence, records, and other affairs of law office. The word originally refers to a person who acted as a confidant, and handled matters of a private nature for his principal. The executive position or executive secretary is one of major responsibility in business or government. First responsibility of a legal secretary each day is open, read, and note all mail received that day. It is Important in a law office. The mail often includes legal documents crucial to a certain case that day. She must be familiar with all standard forms used in the office. Affidavits, bills of sale, deeds, leases, mortgages, powers of attorney, propositions, and wills. Every legal secretary works with computers, duplicators, stencil machines, but the Dictaphone is usually the most frequently utilised.

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