Career Video Surprises

The first video I watched was for a lawyer. I wasn't really surprised at any of the information given because it was relatively routine, for example they mentioned long and irregular hours, i had already made that assumption. The second video i watched was for a paralegal/legal assistant. i was a little more unsure about all of what was entailed with this career therefore i heard more things i didn't know would be apart of this job. I learned that paralegals mainly do the same things as lawyers do aside from a few things such as being able to try cases in court. i learned that they are in no way allowed to give legal advice either. Thirdly i found that they do a lot of work for the lawyers such as writing up reports for them and researching things for them. The third video i watched was for a legal secretary. I was a little more surprised at this video than the other two. I found that legal secretaries are the ones to get paper work such as subpoenas and motions ready. i knew they handled paper work but i didn't know they handled those types. I learned that they sometimes spend hours in law libraries doing things such as citing quotations. I also saw that legal secretaries are very important to a legal team, i knew they were important but i didn't realize how much work they really do and how indispensable to a legal team they really are.