Deck 16: Working in a Legal Office

Question 1

Which of the following positions would NOT be available for employment in a legal office?

A) Medical assistant
B) Librarian
C) Paralegal
D) Legal Researcher

Answer 1

Medical assistant

Question 2

Which of the following responsibilities are included in the role of a legal office professional?

A) Managing the entire office
B) Training, orientation, and supervision
C) Completing research and operating and troubleshooting office technologies
D) All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

Which of the following varieties of administrative and clerical duties would a legal professional NOT perform?

A) Managing information
B) Conducting court research
C) Scheduling meetings and appointments
D) Writing wills, contracts, or other legal documents

Answer 3

Writing wills, contracts, or other legal documents

Question 4

Legal secretaries use computers to prepare legal papers, such as complaints, notices, motions, responses, subpoenas, and other legal documents, under the supervision of a/an

A) legal researcher.
B) receptionist.
C) attorney or paralegal.
D) librarian.

Question 5

Attorneys look for legal assistants who have good

A) discretion.
B) interpersonal skills.
C) judgment.
D) All of the above

Question 6

Legal assistants may become certified through

A) CLSS.
B) IAAP.
C) NALS.
D) All of the above

Question 7

Which of the following terms is used to designate the professional business or law firm?

A) Practice
B) Attorney General's Office
C) District Attorney's Office
D) Litigation office

Question 8

Office professionals will likely be responsible for processing documents according to the laws of different states as well as the federal government. Which of the following is the name of a book to which most documents will conform?

A) Employer's Circular E Handbook
B) Occupational Outlook Handbook
C) Librarian's Document Handbook
D) Uniform Commercial Code

Question 9

Which document is usually a written, but sometimes an oral, agreement between two or more parties to do, or not do, an ace: which results in the agreement being enforceable in a court of law?

A) Power of Attorney
B) Affidavit
C) Contract
D) Petition

Question 10

The person making the statement in an affidavit is

A) a paralegal.
B) the affiant.
C) the principal.
D) intestate.

Question 11

Paper that is pre-printed with ruled margins that is occasionally used for court documents is called

A) court paper.
B) legal paper.
C) legal back.
D) legal cap.

Question 12

Which of the following ways to type dates is correct?

A) 16 December 2010
B) the 16th day of December 2012
C) the sixth day of December, two thousand twelve
D) All of the above

Question 13

Legal secretarial openings are expected to increase over the next few years, although many lawyers are performing their own administrative services that were formerly the domain of the legal secretary.

Question 14

A power of attorney is a document that authorizes someone to act for another.

Question 15

In most cases a good font size to used in legal documents such as Times Roman 14-point.

Question 16

Most legal documents are single-spaced.

Question 17

Always number the first and last pages of a legal document unless the attorney gives you other directions.

Question 18

An acceptable number treatment in a legal document is thirty (30) days.

Question 19

A legal professional performs tasks similar to most secretaries; however, the position demands knowledge of legal document preparation as well as court procedures.

Question 20

A mentor is a partner who works with you as you learn.

Question 21

Dictation equipment has moved into the digital age; this new digital recording media is exactly the same as having your music collection on an iPod rather than a stack of CDs.

Question 22

The very nature of the type of work completed in an attorney's office demands high ethical standards on the part of the legal professional.

Question 23

One of the NALA Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility is "A paralegal's conduct is guided by bar associations' codes of professional responsibility and rules of professional conduct."

Question 24

Proofreading is NOT a necessary skill in legal work.

Question 25

Legal documents are never stapled.