The Law Clerk Diploma program prepares students for the exciting and challenging world of the legal assistant. Graduates will have the knowledge and skills necessary to assist an Ontario lawyer in various practice areas, such as civil litigation, criminal, family, real estate, corporate/commercial and wills/estates practice.
Duities and Responsibility
Under a lawyer’s direction, law clerks are responsible for:
- office procedures
- case/file management
- time/financial management
- client communication/record
- keeping in compliant
- legal research
- legal writing
- interviewing legal accounting
- document production
- file and case management
- use of specialized legal software applications
Where Law Clerks can work
- Courts
- Law Offices
- Banks
- Unions
- Corporations
- Governments