Legal Secretary - OS039

Legal Secretary

Legal Secretaries in large city firms can earn a salary in excess of £30,000!

Course Description

Legal Secretary

Legal Secretaries are a vital part of any legal firm and can earn generous salaries for doing an interesting job that they love!

The course looks at subjects including, working in the legal environment, the courts and dispute resolution, sources of law, principles of liability, principles of debt recovery and aspects of non-contentious work.

The courses consists of 6 modules, all detailed below.

Previous Knowledge Required

No previous knowledge required.

Support

The course is designed for study by distance learning at home or at work. Students will receive all course materials by post or online, plus tutor support by email.

You will send your work back to your personal course tutor for them to mark and return to you. On successful completion of the course you will be awarded your certification.

Assessment

The Legal Secretary course is assessed by a series of written assignments, which are submitted to your tutor for marking. There is no external examination required.

Modules

• Unit 1: Working in the Legal Environment
• Regulation
• Different types of Lawyer
• The legal environment
• The Solicitors office
• The role of the Legal Secretary
• Key skills
• Office procedure
• Office equipment
• Alternative business structure under new Legal Services Act 2007
• Unit 2: The Courts and Dispute Resolution
• Rights of audience
• Right to conduct litigation
• Judges
• The court system
• Appeals
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Unit 3: Sources of Law
• Precedent
• Legislation
• Law reporting
• Institutions of the European Union
• Unit 4: Principles of Liability
• Elements of criminal liability
• Elements of a contract
• Contract formalities
• Contractual terms
• Discharge of contract
• Remedies
• The law of tort
• Negligence
• Advice and representation
• Unit 5: Principles of Debt Recovery
• Pre-action matters
• Issuing procedings
• Start of preceedings
• Action by Defendant
• Enforcement of judgements
• Unit 6: Aspects of Non-Contentious Work
• Wills and probate
• The function of the executor(s)
• Land law
• Co-owner ship
• Conveyancing

Awarding Organisation

This course has been accredited under NCFE IIQ Licence by Open Study College which has been approved as an NCFE Investing in Quality (IIQ) centre to give formal recognition to courses. At the end of this course successful learners will be awarded a certificate of achievement by NCFE. The training courses have been designed specifically to meet the needs of learners who prefer to study from home. The course measurable learning outcomes have been benchmarked at Level 3 (using Ofqual's Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors) to allow you to consider the depth of study, difficulty, and level of achievement involved.

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