The 22nd edition of this established handbook covers the core tasks of legal assistants and takes into account the areas of legal practice that employees need as background knowledge to manage their responsibilities. The typical areas of responsibility in fee law, enforcement, and deadline monitoring are presented in particularly comprehensive detail. You will also receive an excellent overview of other areas of legal practice. The work is clearly structured, allowing you to have a clear overview of the individual topics. At the end of each chapter, there are numerous questions with answers that you can use for knowledge review as well as for preparing for the oral exam. The authors present the most important topics that legal assistants deal with in their daily practice. Aspiring legal specialists have the opportunity to acquire or refresh the necessary fundamentals for the start of their further education, even after a longer absence from the profession.

Contents include:

• Operational workflow (law firm organization, deadline control)
• Substantive civil law (introduction, BGB general part, limitation/expiration, general and special law of obligations, property, family, inheritance, commercial, and corporate law)
• Civil procedure law (general provisions, legal aid and advisory assistance, litigation, procedural law, legal remedies, service and resolution of the main matter, special types of lawsuits and procedures, order for payment procedure, settlement, self-evidence procedure, family law proceedings, proceedings before labor courts)
• Interim legal protection
• Cost and fee law
• Legal cost assistance
• Enforcement
• Insolvency law
• Other individual areas of law.