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Legal Assistant (US)

Legal Assistant (US) test

Type: Role specific skills

Time: 10 min

Languages: English

Level: Intermediate

Summary of the Legal Assistant (US) test

This Legal Assistant (US) test evaluates a candidate’s skills in providing support to attorneys and law firms in the United States in a general, non-state-specific setting. This screening test will help you hire quality legal assistants or paralegals.

Covered skills

Intake
Client management
Filings and preparations
Professionalism

Use the Legal Assistant (US) test to hire

Legal assistants, paralegals, legal secretaries, legal specialists, litigation assistants, and anyone else who works in a legal setting in the United States.

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About the Legal Assistant (US) test

Legal assistants, paralegals, and other legal support staff in the United States work closely with attorneys and perform a variety of tasks. Legal support staff often act as a liaison between clients and attorneys and may be responsible for communicating with clients, organizing meetings, and scheduling appointments. Legal support staff may also be involved in administrative tasks such as billing clients, maintaining financial records, and managing office operations.

The Legal Assistant test uses real-world situations and asks candidates to choose the most appropriate response from a series of options. These choices focus on the major skill areas of client intake, client management, filings and preparations for hearings, and general professionalism in law firm settings.

Overall, this test provides law firms with a reliable and objective way to assess the suitability of candidates for the role of legal assistant or paralegal. It ensures that candidates have the knowledge and skills required to perform the job effectively and helps firms to make informed hiring decisions.

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The test is made by a subject-matter expert

Martin B.

Martin is an experienced attorney in the United States with experience clerking for judges, practicing in larger firms and, currently, running his own law firm. Martin brings his varied and deep experience to this topic, focusing on the most important skills associated with high quality and effective legal support staff.

At his firm, Martin enjoys representing a diverse set of clients as well as mentoring junior staff. In his spare time, Martin enjoys sports and spending time with family.

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Besides video questions, you can also add the following types of custom questions: multiple-choice, coding, file upload, and essay. Multiple-choice lets your candidates choose from a list of answers that you provide, coding lets you create a coding problem for them to solve, file upload allows your candidates to upload a file that you request (such as a resume or portfolio), and essay allows an open-ended text response to your question. You can learn more about different custom question types here.

An assessment is the total package of tests and custom questions that you put together to evaluate your candidates. Each individual test within an assessment is designed to test something specific, such as a job skill or language. An assessment can consist of up to 5 tests and 20 custom questions. You can have candidates respond to your custom questions in several ways, such as with a personalized video.

A video question is a specific type of custom question you can add to your assessment. Video questions let you create a question and have your candidates use their webcam to record a video response. This is an excellent way to see how a candidate would conduct themselves in a live interview, and is especially useful for sales and hospitality roles. Some good examples of things to ask for video questions would be "Why do you want to work for our company?" or "Try to sell me an item you have on your desk right now."

Besides video questions, you can also add the following types of custom questions: multiple-choice, coding, file upload, and essay. Multiple-choice lets your candidates choose from a list of answers that you provide, coding lets you create a coding problem for them to solve, file upload allows your candidates to upload a file that you request (such as a resume or portfolio), and essay allows an open-ended text response to your question. You can learn more about different custom question types here.

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