If your boss wants you to do something that is outside of your workscope

Originally Posted by Blueberry

I am not an Executive. To be exact, I am a Secretary in a law firm but my boss wants me to do up the contents of a legal document that is to be done by a lawyer not a support staff. If you put yourself in the customer's shoes, the customer pays so much legal fees to a lawyer to do up the contents of a legal documents that have to be submitted to the Court but the lawyer tells the secretary to do instead. What do you think ? Is the boss bullying the secretary who does not study Law ?

Lots of law firms do that. Simple template letters of demand are done by legal secretary, those a bit complex by rookie lawyers and very complicated or high profile client then the senior counsel will get involved.

If you really feel that strongly about the clients being shortchanged (sounds like righteous BS to me), then maybe this industry is not for you. But from what I heard secretaries in many other companies end up doing a lot of really degrading menial work for the boss, so it might be out of the pan into the fire.

Originally Posted by Blueberry

I am not an Executive. To be exact, I am a Secretary in a law firm but my boss wants me to do up the contents of a legal document that is to be done by a lawyer not a support staff. If you put yourself in the customer's shoes, the customer pays so much legal fees to a lawyer to do up the contents of a legal documents that have to be submitted to the Court but the lawyer tells the secretary to do instead. What do you think ? Is the boss bullying the secretary who does not study Law ?

OK, understand your situation better now. You can shut out all the smart asses in this forum.

If you are a legal secretary or paralegal then it should be well within your means. But if you are purely a secretary/PA with no legal background then it depends.. if it is a cut and paste or simple modifications to a template then it should be ok. If your partner requires you to draft a legal document then you are right that you should not be doing it. I won't term it as "bullying" though.