SECTOR: ADMINISTRATION, COMMERCE AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (01)
Code: 5726 / 30 credits / AVS

450 hours (AVS)

Day

St. Pius X Career Centre
 9955 Papineau Ave
Montreal (Quebec) H2B 1Z9
 (514) 381-5440
 (514) 381-1124
 www.piuscentre.com
 piuscentre@emsb.qc.ca

The Secretarial Studies-Legal program prepares students to practice the occupation of legal secretary.

Legal secretaries work in a variety of legal environments in the public, parapublic and private sectors, including government departments, legal services, litigation departments, lawyers’ offices, notaries’ offices, bailiffs’ offices, courts, cities and municipalities. They also work in different fields of the legal profession, such as civil law, business law, family law, notarial practice and municipal law.

To do their job, legal secretaries must understand legal terminology. They are asked to perform activities in connection with the processing of legal and administrative files. Depending on the field of the legal profession in which they work, they produce or prepare documents relating to business law, pleadings for contentious and non-contentious civil or family cases, documents relating to claims, applications and performance orders, and documents for notarial files. In addition, they are required to carry out tasks of an administrative nature specific to the legal profession, as well as general secretarial tasks.

As part of their profession, legal secretaries must also comply with rules of conduct and professional ethics, and must behave professionally in the workplace, where they are required to interact or work with a variety of people in different roles.