26 years of work in the legal field have taught Michelle from Atlanta, Georgia, many things about the legal secretary job. She particularly remembers one moment from the beginning of her legal secretarial job, when her boss brought in the office the first computer. He said: ‘Legal secretaries will be obsolete by the year 2000, thanks to this piece of equipment’. Was he right? Of course he wasn’t.
In fact, there is a high demand for qualified legal secretaries, due to the gap created by older secretaries that recently retired. What Michelle had to battle during her legal secretary career was the lack of prestige. Her case is a fortunate one, mainly because she had the luck of working for extraordinary people, who knew how to appreciate her efforts. Her work is quite demanding and requires extensive law knowledge, but Michelle loves it, and this is the most important thing. Therefore, whether you plan to work as a legal secretary before pursuing a law career as a paralegal, for example or you plan to build a career, don’t hesitate – you’ll have plenty to learn!
