LEGAL OFFICE PROCEDURES - INTRODUCTION & CORPORATE LAW

1.      Roles, Professional Behaviours, and Responsibilities of Legal Administrative Assistants

1.1          know and apply the specialized skills, knowledge, and character attributes required

1.2         identify and complete general and corporate records office tasks under supervision

1.3         practice discreet and ethical behaviours

1.4         appreciate the expertise, roles, and responsibilities of the members of the legal team within which the legal administrative assistant works

2.    Legal Terminology

        2.1      pronounce, spell, and define

3.    Legal Correspondence and Documents

3.1      understand content and keyboard letters, memoranda, accounts, general and corporate legal documents

4.      Legal System

4.1    understand Canada’s and British Columbia’s systems of justice

4.2          understand citing sources of law and keyboard citations

5.    Legal Records

5.1          open, maintain, and close client files

5.2          understand and use tickler/bring forward systems

5.3          understand general and trust accounts

5.4          understand time sheets, receipts, and disbursements

5.5          calculate fees and disbursements and prepare client accounts

6.    Corporate Law Procedures

6.1          understand proprietorships and partnerships and handle their formation and dissolution

6.2          understand non-reporting corporations and handle incorporation, post-incorporation, annual, mid-year, dissolution, and minute book procedures