legal assistant
- noun
- /ˈliːɡəl əˈsɪstənt/
- Specialized
:
asistente legal
- After the pilot, partners agreed the legal assistant reduced simple tasks, freeing staff for client meetings.
Examples
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During discovery, the team used a cloud-based legal assistant to review thousands of documents quickly.
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The legal assistant prepared the necessary documents for the case.
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The firm deployed an AI-powered legal assistant to draft contracts overnight and support research.
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Many legal assistants are skilled in legal research.
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The legal assistant prepared the necessary documents for the upcoming trial.
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As a legal assistant, she conducted thorough research to support the lawyer's arguments.
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He hired a legal assistant to help manage the firm's paperwork and client communications.
Synonyms
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A program that answers questions and does tasks for a person
Computer software that reviews legal documents and gives advice
How Capable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an assistant who works in legal matters' follows directly from combining 'legal' (pertaining to law) with 'assistant' (a helper), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a helper in the legal domain. This straightforward compound noun pattern is cross-linguistically common, so B1 learners would understand the basic sense (even if they might not know whether it denotes a human or a software system without extra context).
Etymology
Legal assistant used for software copies the human picture of an assistant in a law office: imagine a computer program that finds legal information, reviews documents, and drafts papers to help a lawyer. So, it means 'software or AI that helps lawyers with routine legal tasks'.