Legal Secretaries Legal Secretaries Legal secretaries perform clerical duties in law offices. They must be familiar with many law procedures.
Legal secretaries perform many of the same tasks as other secretaries.
For example, they answer the telephone and type letters. However, many of the documents they prepare must follow strict guidelines. Thus legal secretaries must know the specialized format for legal documents. For example, some pleadings must be on legal size paper while other must be on regular size. Some of the documents that legal secretaries prepare are subpoenas, complaints, and motions.