Legal assistants are those laws enforcing body which work under lawyers. You must have come across paralegal. They are junior to lawyers. Paralegals are responsible to look after the work of court. They are responsible to provide what judge wants. They can be specialist in criminal cases or real estate. They are really the one who is very professionals. I will define in word of American bar association.” A legal assistant or paralegal is a person qualified by education, training or work experience that is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity that perform specifically delegated substantive legal work for which lawyer is responsible. Hence the work of the legal assistant depends directly on the lawyers.
In the words of national association of paralegal assistants, “paralegal or legal assistants are the persons who are responsible for the job which they will be given by the lawyers”. The lawyers provide them the work and they have to complete it. You must ask now whether what kind of work they do. I must tell you that it can be from maintaining records of various clients of lawyers to maintaining records of criminals in court.
Their work place is very versatile and they work either in court or in lawyer’s office. Some are expert in making real estate deals and hence work under real estate lawyers. I must tell you that real estate legal assistant earns lots of money. They are just like computers hardware specialist. They charge around $100 for preparing the deal. However the lawyer pays him monthly. If the lawyer pays him $34000 per month then they can easily earn $20000 from other means. I must tell that they are always busy.
You must be thinking now that how can you really define the work of legal assistant. I will give you an example. Suppose a client asks the real estate lawyer to make a real estate agreement. Then he might ask legal assistant to interview the client and find out that what the client’s requirements are. The number of the clients can be more than 20 and hence the lawyers cannot pay them time equally and hence they are interviewed by legal assistants.
Legal assistants can also be asked to prepare rental agreements. Experienced real estate legal assistants are very good at this and can make more than ten rental agreements daily. They are paid for that. I must tell you that the average salary of a legal assistant is $ 34000 p.a. however the highest salary is $ 54000. You cannot say that all of the paralegals earn this much only. There are many legal assistants who earn more than $ 100000. Hence this is really a good job.
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