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  • What does a legal assistant do?

    A legal assistant provides administrative and clerical support to facilitate a lawyer's day-to-day work and support their caseload. For this role, the exact duties can vary according to the size and organisational hierarchy of the firm or legal practice. A legal assistant's role may involve working alongside one legal professional in a single practice or as part of a larger legal team for a law firm, company or government agency. Below are some of a legal assistant's typical duties:

    • answering the phone, taking messages and greeting clients

    • responding to emails and client communications

    • organising and compiling case files

    • transcribing legal documents

    • managing the lawyer's schedule and booking appointments

    • drafting legal letters, contracts and documents

    • writing case reports

    • managing invoicing and bookkeeping

    • accessing confidential information

Newquay(/ˈnjki/NEW-kee;Standard Written Form:Tewynblustri)[citation needed]is a town on the north coast inCornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is acivil parish,seaside resort, regional centre foraerospaceindustries with an airport and aspaceport, and afishing porton theNorth Atlanticcoast ofCornwall, approximately 12 miles (19 km) north ofTruroand 20 miles (32 km) west ofBodmin.[1]

The town is bounded to the south by theRiver Ganneland its associated salt marsh, and to the north-east by the Porth Valley. The western edge of the town meets the Atlantic atFistral Bay. The town has been expanding inland (south) since the former fishing village of New Quay began to grow in the second half of the nineteenth century.

In 2001, the census recorded a permanent population of 19,562,[2]increasing to 20,342 at the 2011 census[3]and 23,600 in 2021. Recent estimates suggest that the total population for the wider Newquay area (Newquay and St Columb Community Network Area[4]) was 27,682 in 2017, projected to rise to 33,463 by 2025.[5]

​Newquay is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately 12 miles north of Truro and 20 miles west of Bodmin.

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