Sample Legal Resume

This sample legal resume is about a legal secretary who wants to apply so as to get an even better position, which entails better and challenging roles to be performed. Such sample legal resume gives you a better understanding of how to write good resumes which are bound to land you an interview with the employers. Now, a legal secretary is an individual who assists lawyers, particularly in various kinds of law firms. He is responsible for carrying out the less important routine duties to be fulfilled in order to fight the case in a proper way. They mostly spend their time in preparing the relevant documents and conducting legal research for the case at hand. 

Dallas Ball
362, Braddock ST,
San Antonio, TX, 43672
(371) 574- 4721
dallas.ball@email.com

Objective

Looking for a position of legal secretary in the well known law firm that fully utilizes my skills.

Experience

ABC, San Jose, NY
Legal Secretary, 1999 to Present

• Carried out research about the cases that were being handled by the senior partners I worked with
• Assisted them with some of the administrative and managerial duties which included client appointments and scheduling of meetings

XYZ Medical Center, San Antonio, NY
Receptionist, 1994 to 1998

• Responsible for organizing data to be supplied to the vendors and suppliers
• Looked into letters, couriers and all other sorts of correspondence
• Kept tabs on the janitors, pantry service and other amenities present in the organization

Skills & Training

• PowerPoint
• Quark
• Windows 95/98/2000/NT
• Lotus 1-2-3
• 75 wpm
• Excel
• 10-key experience

Education

Angel Community College, Brigham, NY
A.A., Business Administration, 1992

Other activities:

• Participated in an environmental awareness rally organized by Greenpeace in the year 2000
• Helped raise money for an orphanage by participating in the street rallies
• A good football player

References

Furnished upon request.

A well written professional resume should have the ability to grab the reader's attention. As seen in the sample legal resume given above this is achieved with the help of precise information about your educational and professional background being displayed in a non cluttered format.