Legal Secretaries 2024

Day 1

08:00-08:30 Registration & Early Morning Tea & Coffee

08:30 Introduction

08:35 Workshop Commences

SYNOPSIS OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL PA/ ADMIN ROLE

Legal Secretaries play an important administrative support role either in a law firm or an Advocates’ practice. They can also be referred to as legal assistants or paralegals, and are crucial in the litigation process by preparing court documents, researching, maintaining calendars, and typing legal documents.

UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT

• Introduction
• What is Law
• Sources of Law
• The Divisions of Law
• Substantive Law
• Procedural Law

10:00-10:30 Morning Teas, Coffee, & Networking

THE COURT STRUCTURE

• Constitutional court
• Appeal court
• Higher courts
• Lower courts
• Tribunals
• The stare decisis rule
• Jurisdiction, venue and limitations

THE LITIGATION PROCESS

• Criminal Law
  • Pre-Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Post Litigation
• Civil Law
  • Pre-Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Post Litigation
• Liquidated Claims

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Networking

CASELINES:

• How to register on Caselines
• How to view my cases
• Load documents into case
• Rename documents for the case index
• Navigating my case
• Invite another person to the case
• Download the bundle or index for printing

SELECTED APPLICATIONS

• POPI Act
• Legal Ethics
• Intellectual Property
• Commissions of Enquiry, Administrative Proceedings, & Disciplinary Hearings

15:30 Q & A

16:00 End of Day 1

Day 2

08:00-08:30 Online Registration & Log In

08:30 Recap of the previous day

ADVANCED MICROSOFT EXCEL APPLICATION

• Practical and useful tips and tricks for Excel in the legal practice
• Compiling litigation process chronologies with Excel
• Compiling Fact chronologies, records management with Excel
• Time and Billing Procedures
• Reports: Graphs and graphics
• Pivot tables
• Filtering information in tables

Document Preparation in Various Legal Areas

Understanding Jurisdiction, Venue & Statutes of Limitations

10:00-10:30 Mid-Morning Break

LEGAL RESEARCH

An Executive Legal Secretary must be armed with effective research skills. This is because, as an administrative support staff, they will often be required to provide legal research on a particular topic within short time frames. Legal research assists Legal Practitioners in focusing on the facts of the case and identifying the point of law in a disputed issue. It also helps in preparing arguments for court.

PRACTICE DIRECTIVES

This is a critical aspect in the life of an Executive Legal Secretary. Practice Directives are issued by a Court to provide guidance on required procedure in each Court division. Although they do not have the same force of law as legislation, they express the Court’s view on practice and procedure matters. Litigants and practitioners are expected to comply with them or provide a good reason for non-compliance.

12:00 EQ (Emotional Intelligence) in the Workplace

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Networking

13:30 EQ (Emotional Intelligence) in the Workplace

14:30 Wrap & Certificate Hand-out & End of Workshop

14:45 Pamper Session @ the Mowana SPA, Indaba Hotel

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