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Paralegals and Legal AssistantsLegal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

What it takes to move from paralegals and legal assistants into legal secretaries and administrative assistants — the overlap, the gaps, and the pay change.

The transferable cut

Refit analysis ·10 of the top skills overlap between Paralegals and Legal Assistants and Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Writing, Speaking, so that experience transfers directly. The main gaps to close are few. Median pay moves from $61,010 to $54,140 (-11%).

Skills that transfer

You likely already have these from paralegals and legal assistants.

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Listening
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring
  • Active Learning
  • Learning Strategies
  • Mathematics
  • Science

Gaps to close

What legal secretaries and administrative assistantsasks for that you'll need to build.

  • No major missing skills among the top set.

Pay change

Paralegals and Legal Assistants
$61,010
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
$54,140

Re-angle your Paralegals and Legal Assistants experience toward Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Honest tailoring

See how your resume lines up with Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

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