legal assistant

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   a person with specialized training who assists lawyers

   Synonymsparalegal

   Broaderparaprofessional

   law

Questions about legal assistant

What does legal assistant mean?

legal assistant means "a person with specialized training who assists lawyers".

What is another word for legal assistant?

Close synonyms include paralegal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal assistant a common word?

legal assistant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.