Legal specialist
Legal specialist is the professional title of the civil servants in the middle legal service after completing their training in courts and public prosecutors . In the public service they use official or functional designations.
How Justizfachangestellte are judicial management specialists in the contentious and voluntary active jurisdiction and perform there tasks of the office . They are also clerks . The tasks of the office are increasingly being carried out in so-called service units, in which the activities of judges , judicial officers and the office are to be networked.
In the service units, legal specialists are also contact persons for citizens and judicial authorities, depending on their task profile . Among other things, they are also responsible for processing cost matters and calculating the compensation for witnesses, experts and honorary judges in accordance with the Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act . You can also act as the recorder for appointments . They are also used in the administration of justice. The training to become a legal clerk basically lasts 2 years, due to the merging of the professions of legal clerk and judicial clerk, the training in Lower Saxony lasts 2 ½ years. For this you need a secondary school diploma or a secondary school diploma with a completed professional training that is conducive to the profession of a legal specialist. You are also responsible for processing court orders and for monitoring judicial and legal deadlines. The administration of the files also falls within the area of responsibility of the judicial administrator.