Legal Assistants


Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security > Legal Assistants > Skills and Abilities
Occupation is in demand.
111200
100146
Legal Assistants

Legal Assistants - Skills and Abilities

Paralegals need to:

Communicate

  • Understand written information.
  • Read and understand work-related materials.
  • Write clearly so other people can understand.
  • Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
  • [ More ]
  • Understand spoken information.
  • Listen to others and ask questions.

Reason and Problem Solve

  • Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
  • Use reasoning to discover answers to problems.
  • Analyze ideas and use logic to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order.
  • [ More ]
  • Combine several pieces of information and draw conclusions.
  • Recognize the nature of a problem.
  • Develop rules that group items in various ways.
  • Understand new information or materials by studying and working with them.
  • Judge the costs and benefits of a possible action.

Manage Oneself, People, Time, and Things

  • Check how well one is learning or doing something.
  • Manage the time of self and others.

Work with People

  • Change behavior in relation to others’ actions.
  • Look for ways to help people.

Perceive and Visualize

  • Identify a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in distracting material.
  • Quickly and accurately compare letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns.
Source: Illinois Career Information System (CIS) brought to you by Illinois Department of Employment Security.