This book is written on the basis of legal practice and legislation, and highlights the specific nature of a lawyer’s assistant’s work, practical skills, professional training, the ethics of the lawyer’s assistant and some of the issues currently being faced are briefly examined.

This work examines the professional training and skills of a lawyer’s assistant, the organisational forms of advocacy practice and the employment of a lawyer’s assistant, the types of a lawyer’s professional practice and the involvement of the lawyer’s assistant, the types of cases and disputes and the roles performed by the lawyer’s assistant, the ethics of the lawyer’s assistant, the lawyer of the future,  will cover issues such as the legal environment for paralegal assistants, training, and support policies.