On job search sites, many people have repeatedly met the vacancy "Assistant Attorney". Moreover, most applicants in the head often have only one question - what kind of position. What does an assistant lawyer do and what is his professional responsibility? Here it is necessary to say right away that for entering this position a person needs to have completed higher education. But the leaders of some firms are also considering correspondence students studying in the last courses of the law faculty. Learn more about this from this article.
A little about the most important thing
Who is a lawyer? This is an employee of a company or institution that is engaged in the preparation of important information, consults clients (when necessary), and carries out all the official tasks of a lawyer or legal adviser (in all organizations this position is called in its own way). There is simply nothing particularly difficult to work in such a position. After all, the assistant to the lawyer, as the secretary of the head, knows a lot, but is obliged to do what the head says. Very often, people starting their work in this position recall that in this way they mastered the basic elements of jurisprudence. By the way, many graduates of law faculties of universities are trying to get a job in this specialty. After all, working in this way, you can get good skills and experience that are so necessary for a competent lawyer.
What are the responsibilities
This is one of the most important issues of interest to all citizens who want to get a job in the company.
It is immediately necessary to say that there are no such vacancies in state and municipal institutions. Or it is very rare. Usually there is only one lawyer working there who fills in the paper and speaks in the proceedings. It is really very difficult. Moreover, with a large amount of information it can be difficult for one person to cope. It is for this purpose that there is a position - an assistant lawyer. His responsibilities include:
- drafting and printing of documents by order of the General Counsel (for example, lawsuits, complaints, claims, various applications for submission to the courts and other institutions);
- providing legal assistance to clients (signing contracts, agreements);
- work with regulatory bases, constant monitoring of updates in the legislation;
- receiving and sending letters to the parties to the process, to judicial and law enforcement agencies;
- ability to work with office equipment and e-mail.
Thus, having worked in this position for several years, a person will become a highly qualified specialist and will be able to find another, more paid job.
General
The position of assistant lawyer is currently considered to be very popular, albeit not highly paid. It is necessary for those young people who want to have a successful career in the field of jurisprudence and quickly advance through the ranks. It is for this reason that most graduates of law faculties of universities try to get assistants to legal advisers. Indeed, young professionals do not have the necessary experience and skills to work as a lawyer. But this is especially important.
Information in Ads
Most law graduates try to find a job on their own. The vacancy of an assistant lawyer is considered to be more suitable for them than employment in other existing specialties. After all, part-time students studying in the last courses of the university, or university graduates very often take this position. If you look at at least one of these ads, you can see that the employers here are not aiming to find an experienced and competent lawyer for a vacancy in the company.
Therefore, the main requirements for the applicant for the position of assistant legal adviser will be the following:
- the presence of higher or secondary professional legal education;
- work experience is encouraged but not required;
- candidates for university graduates or correspondence students are considered;
- desire to work, to be sociable and polite in communicating with customers.
Such information can be found in the media for a person who wants to find work in such a specialty. Moreover, some employers do not indicate wages in the announcement. Most often, information is indicated that the remuneration for work will be appointed based on the results of the interview.
Why accept people without skills
Everything is quite simple here. An assistant lawyer without work experience will not be able to demand a large salary from the head of the company. Moreover, this position is not primary, but secondary. This means that the assistant only prepares for the lawyer all the papers that are necessary for the job, but he himself remains in the shade. In litigations, assistants act in exceptional situations (for example, the lawyer himself fell ill or, due to life circumstances, cannot take part in the trial).
Thus, legal assistants are the same secretaries as the heads of organizations. Only they are collecting all the necessary documentation for the chief lawyer to facilitate his work and help in preparing the papers for the upcoming meeting.
In the capital
Finding a good and well-paid job is not so easy. This is especially difficult for those graduates of Moscow universities who decide to stay here and work, without even having housing. Such, as practice shows, are many. Nevertheless, in Moscow, the vacancy of an assistant lawyer is considered no less in demand than in other cities. Although the payment does not call it particularly prestigious.
On average, in Moscow, an assistant lawyer receives a salary of between fifteen and thirty thousand rubles a month. For such a big city, this is very little money. Nevertheless, even those graduates who cannot find themselves another in their specialty are ready to go for such a job. Moreover, this is a very good start to start work in the field of jurisprudence.
In addition to the foregoing
I would like to say that getting into a private company in Moscow as an assistant lawyer without experience and practical skills is not so difficult. Especially if a person has theoretical knowledge, a desire to work and gain new experience.
Indeed, when preparing and printing documents, an assistant lawyer learns a lot without experience, constantly works with the regulatory framework, and monitors changes in legislation. Moreover, the preparation of lawsuits, complaints and petitions to the court also falls on the shoulders of this employee, if the lawyer does not have time to prepare all the necessary documents.
Therefore, if a graduate of the law faculty of the university will constantly work with laws, decrees and other normative acts, he will receive more theoretical knowledge, in the future he will be able to successfully apply it in practice. At the same time, when compiling complaints and petitions in court, a young employee develops a certain skill in processing them. Thus, the work experience that is so necessary in order to become a qualified lawyer, and in the future, perhaps even a professional lawyer or judge, appears. Therefore, young people need to take their choice of their profession more seriously. After all, a good job should bring pleasure and a stable income. This must be remembered.
Necessary qualities
Work as an assistant lawyer implies constant communication with people. For this reason, this employee should be sociable and always try to help people.
Moreover, if a graduate started working in a private company, then he must be very polite with clients. After all, the income of the company in which the employee works will directly depend on how many people go there to receive qualified legal assistance. Therefore, if you start to communicate with customers very rudely and go beyond decent behavior, then you can be left without work. This rule also applies to employees who work in public institutions.
In addition, a person working as an assistant legal adviser should be able to plan his time. This is necessary in order to have time to finish the work begun and to have time to complete the remaining documents. This skill is useful to a lawyer in the future. After all, a professional in his field is simply obliged to do much more than all other employees. In addition, at the very beginning of his journey, the assistant legal adviser should try to be responsible and never let down his boss. Moreover, it is necessary to say about such a quality of a young specialist as diligence. We must try to fulfill all the instructions of the chief lawyer quickly and accurately.
The most interesting
Working as an assistant to the legal adviser, the young employee gets the opportunity to consolidate his theoretical knowledge gained during training at the university. Despite the fact that this position does not provide for the employee to protect the interests of clients in a court session, he is the right hand of his head (chief lawyer) and must prepare all the documents for the latter to speak in the process.
Nevertheless, in private firms, the daily work of an assistant to the chief lawyer is to work with office equipment, e-mail and record clients for an appointment with their immediate supervisor.
I would also like to add that in order to become a really good specialist in your field and help people, a lawyer needs to work a lot, not only in the office, but also in his spare time to monitor changes in legislation. Moreover, you need to constantly improve your knowledge and practical skills.
Preference for candidates with higher education
Despite the fact that a vacancy of an assistant lawyer without work experience is considered acceptable not only for graduates of universities, but also law colleges, but the leaders of organizations still prefer to take people with higher education to this position. This is primarily due to the fact that universities have trained specialists for six years. Here, special attention is paid to the future work of young specialists, specialization is selected.
In college, students receive only a set of basic knowledge in a very short amount. This is clearly not enough to become a professional in their field.
Help people
The main task of a good lawyer is to solve the problems of people who find themselves in difficult situations. Indeed, in most cases, citizens who have violated the law, or those who are trying to protect their loved ones from unlawful prosecution and conviction, turn to such specialists for help.
In addition, there are very few really competent lawyers now, despite the fact that every year young people with a legal education graduate from universities. Therefore, the choice of a lawyer or notary must be approached very consciously.
Total
At all times, the legal profession was considered very promising and very profitable. It is for this reason that so many people want to enter law schools. Nevertheless, a higher education is not considered a guarantee that the graduate will later become a good or first-class lawyer, investigator or even a judge. This requires good and lengthy practice. It is for this reason that working as an assistant lawyer can help young professionals realize themselves in their chosen profession. Indeed, this is the only way to get the necessary work skills in a short time and apply the knowledge gained during training in practice.