
The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs
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Our Students consistently share uplifting feedback about our Legal Secretary courses and the support they receive from our dedicated team. Discover how our Students have enjoyed their learning journey and how their qualifications have opened doors to rewarding Legal Secretary careers.
Our Students come from diverse backgrounds—from beginners with no legal experience to seasoned Legal Secretaries looking for formal credentials. We also welcome law graduates eager to gain practical skills and start their careers. ILSPA Students and Members are based across the UK and globally, in locations like Dubai, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.
Hearing from our Students brings great joy to our team. We’re passionate about empowering people to succeed in their Legal Secretary careers, and their stories make our work truly meaningful.
I really enjoyed the online course and the classes were very informative, interesting and delivered with good interaction and humour. The course is very thorough and covers a wide selection of elements. I am currently working in a Law firm as an administrative support staff and decided to enrol on the course to help with my knowledge and experience as I have never worked in this sector before. Due to personal circumstances, I did struggle completing the assessments before the deadline but was extremely grateful to be given the opportunity to extend the date to complete the course.
I enrolled on the course in November 2022 and secured my first interview in December 2022 for a legal secretarial position. Although unsuccessful at this interview, the same company invited me to another interview for a Litigation Legal Secretary in May 2023 which I was successful at. I started work in June and have just recently passed my 3 months probation. Having no previous experience as a Legal Secretary, it was this course that gave me the confidence and gravitas to apply for this role.
I really enjoyed the course as I gained experience of work within the legal sector and working on forms that I may need to complete when I work in the legal field. I took this course after I finished university because I did not feel like I had enough experience in the legal field, in areas like completing paperwork. I also took part in this course to gain employment as a Legal Secretary, Personal Assistant or Paralegal. While taking part in the course, I started working in the legal field, and I can say that this course prepared me for some of the daily tasks and work I do.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the course. After being out of the law environment for 20 years, it was a great refresher. I now have a job in the legal field and completing the course has really helped with my day-to-day understanding of the profession.
My personal experience of this course was brilliant, I loved being able to learn and study in my own time and I loved the flexibility that this course brings. When I first started this course, I didn't know much about law and during my studies (thanks to this course) I was able to train as a Legal Assistant in a law firm and have received an offer from a Russell Group University to study law next year! I enjoyed learning the fundamentals of a variety of different areas of law and I greatly appreciate the help and time given to me by my course assessors.
I would like to send a message of my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to participate on the ILSPA Diploma and say how delighted I am that I have passed with an overall score of 94%! Participating and learning more about various sections of the English Legal System has been very interesting and an exciting opportunity of which I am very grateful! The information learned throughout complements my university studies (English and Welsh LLB Hons) as although some information learned as part of the ILSPA Diploma course was similar to the university work, the opportunity to learn how to draft various documents was different and a new skill that I can develop and most certainly use going forward! My special thanks to Maria Richards for all her correspondence and time taken to mark my assessments and the very supportive and helpful feedback which can really help going forward as well!
I enjoyed this course, it has helped with my knowledge of law. Maria, my course tutor, has been amazing. She has always helped me where she can and always replies very quickly. I studied my LLB Law degree a few years ago and wanted a refresher course and was looking into becoming a legal secretary. The course has helped me a lot.
I'd like to express my appreciation to everyone for their assistance and support. Without your help, I would never have gotten so far as I appear to have. I can and should admit that enrolling on the Legal Secretaries Diploma course was a smart move because it gave me extensive skills, the ability, professional knowledge and phenomenal confidence to work in the legal field. I wanted to emphasize how informative the tutor support team was throughout the course. I'm so proud, lucky and super thankful that I have met Amanda Hamilton through this course, as she is one of the top-qualified tutors and a very caring and amazing person in general. Maria has always been impressive and highly qualified, with super swift responses, and there is unquestionably a lot to develop out of this professionally designated route. I'm happy and I strongly suggest that students who are interested in the law take this course.
I have very much enjoyed the course, both attending the online classes and working on my portfolio. I had been employed as an in-house Legal Secretary for just about a year when I started it, having had no background in the legal field previously. The course has enriched and expanded my understanding of many aspects of legal transactions and it has indeed boosted my confidence as a professional too!
This course was very helpful and helped me get a job as a junior Legal Secretary at a law firm. This course gave me the confidence and knowledge to do a good job and get me started in a career in law.
I have really enjoyed my course. Seamus was a very good tutor, he was very patient and I would always feel comfortable asking a question if I wasn't sure. Everyone who attended the course along with me was very nice too! Whenever I emailed the Institute, they would always come back to me very quickly and efficiently. I took part in the course because I already work at a law firm and wanted to gain further law experience, which I feel I have.
I was planning for years to enrol on this course. This was my present to myself. I wanted to learn about the English Legal System and if and after completing this course I find employment, that would be a bonus. Seamus, our teacher, was very good with his approachable and engaging manner and interesting stories. I have enjoyed the course very much.
I discovered ILSPA while reading a job offer. I am French and moved to London. I wanted to change my career and I have always been interested in law, so ILSPA gave me the opportunity to start in the law industry. I really appreciated the course because it is well explained and motivates you to learn more. I am now looking for a Legal Secretary position and I would like to pursue my studies to be a qualified Paralegal. Thank you again for your support.
I enjoyed this course. It was very information and I feel it covered the whole syllabus in great detail. I already work in the legal profession and this has helped my knowledge and skills massively to gain a higher qualification and position in the office.
I absolutely loved studying this Legal Secretary course. It is very well written, straightforward and beautifully explained. I found it a good price too. I enrolled for expanding my personal knowledge in law and practice. I like that the course offers help with CVs in order to find a Legal Secretary job. I am not a Legal Secretary at the moment but hoping to become one with the help of this course.
I always wanted to have a career in law but knew I did not want to attend university. I had a full-time job unrelated to law and decided taking this course would help me stand out from others when applying for positions. I began working as a Legal Secretary 4 months ago. This diploma caught the attention of the Partners who interviewed me and most certainly helped me secure the position. The employers were amazed by what the course included.
I applied for the Legal Secretary course to help me to pursue a future career as a Legal Secretary. I found all of the units of the course very interesting and really enjoyed learning how to draft various legal documents. This course has boosted my confidence in myself and my learning abilities - being able to see the results of the achievement tests straight away helped to keep me motivated. My course assessor Maria was very helpful with the couple of questions that I had during my studies and I would definitely recommend this course.
I have enjoyed the course and feel that it has taught me the skills that are required as a legal secretary. It has deepened my understanding of what would be asked of me in such a role. The course itself exceeded my expectations and I found that I learnt a lot more than I had anticipated. I like that it didn't just teach skills of a secretary but taught and laid out the foundations of law itself so that we can have more of an understanding of what we are doing - as opposed to just filling out some forms and getting on with it. The resources available are amazing and so easy to navigate and understand.
The course was absolutely brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed learning in my own time and at my own pace. I decided to do the course after the covid pandemic whilst being a full time Mum and preparing myself to go back to securing employment after a seven year gap. I had worked as an experienced (not yet qualified) Legal Secretary and I had always wanted to get certified and it was my dream to complete this Diploma! The course was laid out in a structured way and it was engaging throughout. I felt as though I got a great understanding of the key concepts of each unit and the assessments were a great selection. Thank you ILSPA for your unwavering support. I totally recommend this course!
My experience with the course has been great and I have learned a lot of vital practical skills that were not taught at university. I took the course to gain employment in the legal sector and to also aid my law degree.