# Competences — legal administrative assistant

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0264b794-3771-47aa-a675-78bf13b62ee7).

## Essential

- **communicate by telephone** (skill/competence)
- **compile legal documents** (skill/competence)
- **legal department processes** (knowledge)
- **legal terminology** (knowledge)
- **manage personnel agenda** (skill/competence)
- **meet deadlines for preparing legal cases** (skill/competence)
- **observe confidentiality** (skill/competence)
- **perform clerical duties** (skill/competence)
- **perform office routine activities** (skill/competence)
- **private law** (knowledge)
- **procedural law** (knowledge)

## Optional

- apply technical communication skills (skill/competence)
- brief court officials (skill/competence)
- civil law (knowledge)
- civil process order (knowledge)
- court procedures (knowledge)
- decode handwritten texts (skill/competence)
- fix meetings (skill/competence)
- handle case evidence (skill/competence)
- issue sales invoices (skill/competence)
- legal case management (knowledge)
- legal research (knowledge)
- liaise with typists (skill/competence)
- manage accounts (skill/competence)
- manage digital documents (skill/competence)
- revise legal documents (skill/competence)
- study court hearings (skill/competence)
- translate keywords into full texts (skill/competence)
- use word processing software (skill/competence)
