We always think the way we were taught at achool must surely be the best method – it worked for us, didn’t it? I always thought about the fantastic commercial subjects teacher I had at upper school. That lady was exceptional in her ability to train a group of students with a vast range of abilities at the start of one academic year and by the final week of the second year, out would troup 30 or more perfectly trained secretaries – all well primed and ready to go. Sadly because of the massive changes in our beaviour and use of computers and laptops etc, shorthand typing seems to be absolutely dead in the water now as a choice, yet the very best law chambers and legal outlets rely on their superb secretarial and administrative teams. Some top lawyers cannot function without their ever reliable and totally irresplaceable legal secretaries. Training for these jobs has generally become a learning on the job exercise with the help of some truly excellent online courses and distance learning options.
