According to the nature of work, lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers, according to the scope of business, lawyers can be divided into civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers, according to the client and work status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business. Then I'll bring you the duty of paralegal, hoping to help you.
I. The main work of paralegals
A paralegal is the secretary and assistant of a partner lawyer and a senior lawyer. Its main work includes the following aspects:
1. Reception: paralegals should do a good job in receiving visiting clients and other clients. If the partner's lawyer is not in the office, contact the partner's lawyer in time and arrange customers according to the instructions, including arranging rest, waiting, place, tea and giving away promotional materials. And can do some preliminary legal services according to the requirements of partner lawyers.
Key points of paralegals' reception of clients
Customers send information, sign for information, exchange business cards or write down the customer's contact address, postal code, telephone number, e-mail address, etc. Ask and record customer requirements.
Inform your partner (instructor) to have tea in time.
2 Customer's door-to-door consultation
(1), ask the customer whether to make an appointment for a lecturer. (2) If the instructor is busy in the office, you can politely tell the customer to wait for a while and apologize. (3) If the instructor goes out, contact him in time and apologize for meeting later or another day. (4) According to the instruction of the instructor, consult or record the consulting content, contact address and telephone number of the customer.
Respect customers, be enthusiastic, dress appropriately, use civilized words, and have suggestions on ways and wording.
3. Meeting between clients and lawyers
Prepare meeting materials and outlines for guiding lawyers.
Arrange meeting place, tea, etc.
Attend the meeting and make detailed records.
Organize and print the meeting minutes.
The minutes of the talks should be complete, comprehensive and focused.
Add tea and prepare paper and ink.
4. Text sending and receiving management.
Text sending and receiving work includes telephone recording, fax sending and receiving, computer information base work, text production, information base work, word processing work, format contract, legal text sending and receiving, e-mail sending and receiving, etc.
A. Telephone records (including customer telephone contact and customer telephone)
According to the instructions of the guidance lawyer, contact the customer, inform the guidance lawyer's opinion, record when and where to inform the customer, answer the phone and record the customer's name, position and telephone number.
Answer the customer's call: record A, call number B, customer's name, contact address, contact information C, the content and requirements informed by the customer, and inform the partner or guidance lawyer of the customer's call content in time.
Send and receive faxes
Sending and receiving faxes should be registered.
The fax sent should confirm the customer's receipt.
The sent fax should be backed up and copied.
File it in time and notify the partner or instructor.
C. Sending and receiving legal texts
Assistant delivery. The list of delivery materials shall be held and signed by the receiving customer.
, delivered by post. Delivered by registered mail or express mail.
Express delivery: put each document into an envelope in front of the courier, and give the list of each document to the courier for signature.
, sign for the text. Check the number of copies of the text, check the contents and sign for registration.
The list of documents delivered by express delivery shall indicate the number of copies. Document number, date and main contents (subject words)
Inform the partner or the guiding lawyer of the signed text in time.
D. sending and receiving e-mails
Check email regularly every day.
Send and receive documents, print, back up and file.
Inform the guidance lawyer of the information received and sent in time.
E. Basic work of computer information
The work of the computer information base includes the following contents: ① Printing legal texts served by partners or guiding lawyers. ② Establish a customer information base. ③ Establish a regulatory information base. (4) Establish a network download information base, select the essence and print it into a book. ⑤ Communicate with customers in time through e-mail and network. ⑥ Others: Basic work of computer information.
F. Printing legal texts
Print text, pay attention to correct typos and punctuation.
Check the applicable legal provisions.
Create packages by customer object or text type
(1) Prevent low-level errors such as typos, missing words, sentence breaks, and irregular formats.
(2) Important words should be bold or enlarged or added with lines and boxes.
(3) If mistakes are found after the text is sent to the customer, correct them in time, print them and send them to the customer and apologize.
G. Building a customer information base
① Contents of customer information base:
A. Basic overview: company name, place of registration, main business department, postal code, telephone number, electronic information, legal representative, name, contact name, company registration, main business scope and operation.
B, the date of establishing the legal advisory relationship, the main service content. C. legal services provided to clients. Workload and cost.
If the litigation situation reflects the basic situation of both parties, the filing situation, trial situation and judgment results/types and quantities of legal texts provided to customers/confidentiality procedures shall be set up, and the business secrets of customers shall be strictly observed.
D. information such as the latest customer needs.
(2) Records of written communication with customers.
③ Work records of meeting customers.
H. Establishing a regulatory information base
Compilation of national and local classification laws and policies.
Professional laws and regulations library, such as construction real estate laws and regulations library.
The latest laws and regulations library (recently released policies and regulations)
Minutes of the judicial interpretation of the Supreme Court and the trial meeting of the local high court.
Network download information base
Information on the draft regulations downloaded from the Internet.
Confidential seminar information.
Select the content of the classified website.
News trends of related industries.
J-format contract assembly
Standard form contract.
Model format contract.
Typical contract texts produced by partners and guidance lawyers.
Making legal texts.
From the content point of view, the production of the text focuses on the text structure, sentence organization, legal application and so on. We should seriously consider the "packaging" of words, the color of paper and the choice of binding materials.
5. Participate in lawyer business training. Including attending lawyer qualification examination training, lawyer professional training and secretary training.
6. Participate in the practice of lawyers as partners or paralegals, such as conducting non-litigation investigations, participating in court trials, and participating in the follow-up services of lawyers.
7. Work assigned by other firms/partners/guidance lawyers.
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