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Associate Legal Professional
OFO Code: 341110
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 341110
- Occupation
- Associate Legal Professional
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3411 · Legal and Related Associate Professionals
Official description
Legal and related associate professionals perform support functions in courts of law or in law offices, provide services related to such legal matters as insurance contracts, the transferring of property and the granting of loans and other financial transactions or conduct investigations for clients.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Revenue Fraud & Prosecutions Practitioner, Legal Analyst, Maritime Law State Law Advisor, Judges Associate, Environmental Law state Law advisor, Legal Coordinator, Legal Officer, Legal Advisor, Marine Law State Law Advisor, State Legal Advisor
- Investigating facts, assembling evidence and researching relevant statutes, decisions and other legal documents to prepare cases
- Preparing documents relating to transfer of real estate, stocks or other matters requiring formal registration
- Documenting court proceedings and judgements
- Investigating establishments or the circumstances and behaviour of persons on behalf of clients
- Serving statements of claims, summonses, warrants, subpoenas and other court orders
- Advising clients on legal matters
- Maintaining order in court and hearing rooms
- Investigating possible cases of theft of goods, money or information from business establishments and of other possible cases of unlawful behaviour by customers or employees
- Examining documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgements, easements, contracts and maps in order to verify properties’ legal descriptions and ownership
- Preparing legal documents including trial briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills and contracts and preparing, papers summarising legal positions, or setting out conditions of loans or insurance
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned