legal assistants
Attorney office staff
Legal assistants are professionals who support lawyers by handling administrative and preparatory tasks in legal practice.
They research case law, draft documents, organize files, interview clients, and manage schedules.
The term overlaps significantly with paralegal, though legal assistant sometimes implies more clerical duties while paralegal suggests more substantive legal work.
The legal assistants prepared all the discovery documents before trial.
Unlike lawyers, legal assistants cannot give legal advice or represent clients in court.
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- paralegalAttorney support professional
- law clerkAttorney's or judge's assistant
- motionsActions or formal proposals
- pleadingsFormal litigation documents
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Licensed legal practitioners
lawyers · partners · senior partners · barristers · solicitors
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Legal proceeding overseers
magistrates · justices · arbitrators · jurors
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