법률비서의 현황과 직무만족에 관한 기초연구 - 중, 소형 법무법인을 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data about the current status and job satisfaction of legal secretaries to make suggestions to professionalize legal secretaries. To accomplish the purpose of the study, the survey method was used to collect data from legal secretaries who are working in law firms in Secho-gu, Seoul. The major findings of this study are as follows:First, the majority of legal secretaries are graduates of 4-year college and most of them hold permanent position while contract position is popular in other industrial fields. While the law college major accounts for 30.8%, graduates of various major are working as legal secretaries. Second, the majority of respondents were employed through open recruitment and the average annual salary ranged from 20 million won to 25 million won counted for more than 60% thus shows lower level of salary when compared with major big sized law firms. Third, majority of the respondents replied that their level of job satisfaction is either high (35.0%) or fair(47.6%). Only small percentage of the respondents show low level of job satisfaction. Also the pride in job shows eigher high (17.3%) or fair (67.3%). But relatively high percentage of the respondents(29.8%) show intention to transfer to other company or position. It seems that even though they are fairly satisfied with the job, they want to leave the job because of the low level of annual salary. In order to enhance the job satisfaction and enhance the professionalism among legal secretaries in small and medium sized law firms, salary level should be raise to match the big sized law firms. Also in order to meet the increased needs of legal secretaries and paralegal and to increase the job opportunity to graduates of law major, secretarial training curriculum could be added to 4-year College of Law as major suggestion.