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| Assist lawyers by investigating facts, preparing legal documents, or researching legal precedent. Conduct research to support a legal proceeding, to formulate a defense, or to initiate legal action. | Prepare legal documents, including briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, contracts, and real estate closing statements. | |||
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| Gather and analyze research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents. | ||||
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| Call upon witnesses to testify at hearing. | ||||
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| Direct and coordinate law office activity, including delivery of subpoenas. | ||||
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| Keep and monitor legal volumes to ensure that law library is up-to-date. | ||||
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| Appraise and inventory real and personal property for estate planning. | ||||
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| Prepare affidavits or other documents, such as legal correspondence, and organize and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing system. | ||||
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| Prepare for trial by performing tasks such as organizing exhibits. | ||||
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| Meet with clients and other professionals to discuss details of case. | ||||
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| File pleadings with court clerk. | ||||
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| Investigate facts and law of cases and search pertinent sources, such as public records, to determine causes of action and to prepare cases. | ||||
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| Arbitrate disputes between parties and assist in the real estate closing process, such as by reviewing title searches. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Paralegals and Legal Assistants
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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| Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
| English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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| Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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| Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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| Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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| Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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| Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
| Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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| Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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| Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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| Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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| Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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| Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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| Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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| Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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| Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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| Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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| Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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| Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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| Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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| Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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| Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
| Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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| Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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| Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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| Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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| Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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| Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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| Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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| Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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| Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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| Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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| Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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| Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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| Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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| Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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| Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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| Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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| Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
| Accutrac software | Document management software | |||
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| Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat software | Document management software | |||
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| American LegalNet USCourtForms | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Appligent Citation FDFMerge | Document management software | |||
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| Blumberg Drafting Libaries | Desktop publishing software | |||
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| Bowne JFS Litigator's Notebook | Categorization or classification software | |||
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| Bridgeway eCounsel | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Case analysis software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| CaseSoft DepPrep | Document management software | |||
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| CaseSoft TextMap | Document management software | |||
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| CaseSoft TimeMap | Pattern design software | |||
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| Computer access catalog software | Library software | |||
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| Corel WordPerfect software | Word processing software | |||
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| Dataflight Concordance | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| Dataflight Opticon | Desktop publishing software | |||
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| Digital Contracts software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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| Document management system software | Document management software | |||
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| Electronic discovery software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| Electronic transcription management software | Document management software | |||
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| Fastcase | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| FindForms | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| FindLaw Code of Federal Regulations CFR | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Inmagic DB/TextWorks | Document management software | |||
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| IntelliPDF software | Document management software | |||
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| Legal MacPac software | Word processing software | |||
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| Legal document software | Word processing software | |||
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| LexisNexis Applied Discovery | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| LexisNexis CaseMap | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| LexisNexis CheckCite | Word processing software | |||
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| LexisNexis CodeMaster | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| LexisNexis Company Analyzer | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| LexisNexis CourtLink Strategic Profiles | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| LexisNexis File and Serve | Document management software | |||
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| LexisNexis HotDocs | Document management software | |||
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| LexisNexis SmartLinx | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| LexisNexis Time Matters software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| LexisNexis Total Search | Document management software | |||
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| Litigation support software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| LiveNote software | Categorization or classification software | |||
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| Microsoft Access | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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| Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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| Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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| Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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| OmniRIM software | Document management software | |||
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| Online database search and retrieval software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Online public records search software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Online title search and property report software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Optical character recognition OCR software | Optical character reader OCR or scanning software | |||
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| Ovid SilverPlatter WebSPIRS | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| PDF Snake Easy Bates | Document management software | |||
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| Practice management software PMS | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| ProForce Paralegal Pro-Pack | Desktop publishing software | |||
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| Records management software | Document management software | |||
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| Relational database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Saga Practice Manager | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Software Technology PracticeMaster | Customer relationship management CRM software | |||
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| Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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| Summation Blaze | Document management software | |||
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| Sure Will Writer | Desktop publishing software | |||
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| THOMAS Global Register | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Thomson Saegis | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Thomson West FindLaw | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Thomson West ProLaw | Customer relationship management CRM software | |||
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| Tumbleweed SecureTransport | Transaction server software | |||
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| Two Step Software CorporateFocus software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Uniscribe software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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| Westlaw | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Westlaw Real Property Deed Images | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| Wilson's Computer Applications RealEasy Appraisals | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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| Zylab ZyImage | File versioning software | |||
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| a la mode WinTOTAL | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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| dtSearch software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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| eTrac software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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| Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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| Fax machines | Facsimile machines | |||
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| Image scanners | Scanners | |||
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| Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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| Optical character recognition equipment | Optical character recognition systems | |||
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| Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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| Photocopiers | Photocopiers | |||
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| Scanners | Scanners | |||
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| Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
| Required Level of Education | Bachelor's Degree | |||
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| On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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| Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
| Bankruptcy Assistant | |||
| Certified Paralegal | |||
| Child Support Specialist | |||
| Closing Agent | |||
| Complex Commercial Litigation Paralegal | |||
| Contract Preparer | |||
| Contracts Specialist | |||
| Corporate Law Assistant | |||
| Corporate Legal Assistant | |||
| Corporate Paralegal | |||
| Document Processor | |||
| Eviction Specialist | |||
| Immigration Paralegal | |||
| Immigration Specialist | |||
| Judicial Assistant | |||
| Labor And Employment Certified Paralegal | |||
| Legal Aide | |||
| Legal Analyst | |||
| Legal Assistant | |||
| Legal Investigator | |||
| Legal Paraprofessional | |||
| Legal Researcher | |||
| Litigation Paralegal | |||
| Paralegal | |||
| Paralegal Specialist | |||
| Patent Agent | |||
| Probate Paralegal | |||
| Proposal Specialist | |||
| Real Estate Closer | |||
| Real Estate Paralegal | |||
| Research Analyst | |||
| Title Curator | |||
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