Legal secretaries understand, appreciate, recognize, and honor the value of confidentiality in communications. So our position in the office where we work is one that inspires confidence, because third parties know of the confidential nature of our business. The legal secretary must possess skills and traits far above average, such as excellent keyboarding, transcribing dictation, general knowledge about computers and other office machines, and ethics. Highly Employable Merriam-Webster's Webster's Legal Secretaries Handbook , which is one of the resources for our specialty certification examinations, is an excellent work and reference for new legal secretaries. As the need for good legal secretaries continues to increase and their numbers decrease, each one becomes more valuable.
Legal secretaries belong to one of the most employable groups in the world.
One important reason is that the skills necessary to be a good legal secretary carry over to many other positions, professions, and businesses. I have, many times. By being the best we can be. By living good ethics. By being dependable.