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Would you rather recruit legal secretaries or fee earners?

May 21, 2009

We all know the pitfalls of recruitment, training and retaining. It can be a costly and time consuming exercise (especially if you recruit the wrong person) so given the choice would you rather spend your time recruiting fee earners or support staff? I guess the answer is a no-brainer. If you’re going to expend on salary, office space, equipment and insurances, you’ll be far more concerned to have a good return on your investment and will want to choose high quality fee earners.

Document Direct can replace the typist’s role in your firm. We speak your language, understand your processes and systems and our services can complement your existing support staff so you can deliver outstanding service to your clients.

If you are looking to recruit a legal secretary, stop right here, as we’re the alternative.

If you’re looking to recruit a fee earner the same criteria applies. I suppose you would want to speak to someone who understands your needs, speaks your language and wants to help you deliver the best service to your clients.

David Artingstall of Future Legal Recruitment is a former Senior Partner of a national law firm who now has a legal recruitment business.  

  • His business partner is Caroline Medcalfe who has worked in legal recruitment for a major firm for several years
  • Between them they know Legal Recruitment well … from both sides of the fence
  • Their service is personal and hard working and not targets driven

In turbulent times, there’s lots of changes happening and having a chat with someone who deals with firms on a very personal basis means individual’s ambitions and goals can be matched to recruiter’s needs and vice versa.

Trust Future Legal with Your Legal Future

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Word processing and Practical Law Precedents

June 9, 2008

A good legal secretary will have excellent word processing skills which will help them understand how various documents and templates are set up so they can amend and alter the document without losing any formatting to font, paragraph spacing, numbering and automatic cross referencing.  It’s vital that the document is presented clearly and consistently so that the law firm is represented professionally.  

An example of how a legal document is formatted is a precedent from Practical Law.  

  • The document is split into sections: for the front sheet, table of contents and the body of the document. 
  • In each section the footer text will differ slightly and page numbering should start after the table of contents. 
  • The table of contents will automatically update to the text created in the body of the document by pressing the F9 key. 
  • Automatic numbering to paragraphs is applied using heading styles.
  • Cross referencing throughout the document is applied which will automatically update if paragraphs are changed or added to.

Learning how to link and unlink headers and footers, create, amend and apply heading styles and insert and update cross referencing can easily be done with our online training courses. 

Access to your own web-based learning course, online books and a mentoring service will give you everything you need to know to learn advanced word processing techniques.

In typical Document Direct style, we’ll arrange for you to have a sample course so you can try before you buy.  Click here to learn more and to choose your sample course.

 

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Legal Experience + Microsoft Training = Great Results

May 27, 2008

Being a great legal secretary isn’t just about typing letters.  Experience and specialism in working in the various aspects of law, understanding the needs of fee earners and clients and how to support them come with experience and on the job training.  Now that we have Microsoft Office 2007 (yes, another version) it is vital that practical skills are kept up to date so that we can give our best.  After all, computers and software are the tools of our trade. 

Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) can be learnt in depth, online, in your own time and a qualification awarded for module.  You don’t have to be a whizz in Word or an expert in Excel to get yourself Microsoft certified. 

Document Direct will work with the best legal secretaries who have proven experience and skills and if you’re one of them, we want to hear from you. 

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