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Researches legal issues and drafts memoranda and draft reasons, most often for a judge and sometimes for senior counsel. Note that in parts of Canada the same title is used for a regulated firm-based support role closer to paralegal work.
Varies by employer or jurisdictionLaw, compliance and justice
Captures a word-for-word record of legal proceedings using stenography, voice writing, or digital recording, then produces certified transcripts from it. Accuracy matters absolutely, because appeals are argued from this record.
Certificate or college diplomaLaw, compliance and justice
Witnesses signatures, administers oaths and affirmations, and certifies copies and declarations so that documents are accepted as genuine elsewhere. Scope varies enormously: in some places it is a narrow witnessing power, in others a full profession handling conveyancing and estates.
Varies by employer or jurisdictionLaw, compliance and justice
Helps an organization meet the laws, regulations, and internal rules that apply to it, by writing the rules down, checking whether people follow them, and reporting when they do not. The role sits awkwardly between advising the business and holding it to account.
Owns how an organization collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. The work mixes legal interpretation, process design, and incident response, and often means telling a project that the data it wants cannot be used the way it hoped.
Reviews, drafts, and tracks contracts across their whole life, from first draft through renewal or exit. The value of the role is largely in catching the clause nobody read and in knowing which obligations fall due next month.