California continues to lead the nation in the number of legal secretaries that are gainfully employed. Many of the 30,530 assistants work in legal services, where their chief tasks include gathering ...

"The older, traditional role of a legal secretary is pretty much gone," said one industry observer. "The secretary of the future needs to have really strong IT skills ... and more multitasking than ...

Some fields come with perennial job openings, because basic human needs don’t change very much — health care and education come to mind. The legal world is like this as well. It’s an industry that ...