Legal Support Workers

**Semantic type:** Occupation or Discipline

**Definition:** Paralegals and legal assistants assist lawyers by investigating facts, preparing legal documents, or researching legal precedent. Court reporters use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers search real estate records, examine titles, or summarize pertinent legal or insurance documents or details for a variety of purposes.