Legal Clerk Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of a Legal Clerk includes the following duties and responsibilities:

Legal Clerk enters all data and information, maintaining electronic copies as well as hard copies when necessary. This includes records of clients, production laws, meetings and more.
A Legal Clerk attends administrative meetings, retrieves information and documents for legal staff, handles telecommunications for the office, contacts various local, state, and federal agencies to gather information, records all interactions and prepares checklists.
Legal Clerks manage paper and electronic file organization, scanning and copying files, completing binder creation, indexing, coding and labeling tasks.
They coordinate with the records department when gathering, documenting and storing client information to make sure that they complete these tasks in accordance with procedure.
In order to support the legal staff, Legal Clerks complete research for legal staff and then prepare documents, draft correspondence, summarize records and findings and write up briefs, petitions and other legal documents.

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Legal Clerk duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Legal Clerk roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.

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