Assistant Job Descriptions

The Legal Secretary with supervision provides clerical and secretarial support services for a wide variety of legal functions; and performs related duties as needed by the supervisor.
Primary Responsibilities:

The Legal Secretary must have an understanding of legal procedures and formats.
The Legal Secretary is normally in charge of typing from rough drafts, verbal instructions, or dictating equipment. [...]

Administrative Assistance is now expected to do less secretarial duties but instead is taking on the role of information and communication managers.
Primary Responsibilities:

The Administrative Assistant is required to perform coordinating an office’s administrative activities and storing, retrieving, and integrating information for dissemination to staff and clients.
The Administrative Assistant must perform a variety of administrative duties [...]

The Office Assistant is primarily in an office to help the Manger, Secretary, and other officials who need certain job functions done.
Primary Responsibilities:

The Office Assistant may help to maintain a good office environment by answering phones.
The Office Assistant is often put in charge of filing.
The Office Assistant is usually selected for any special projects.

Many times [...]

The Executive Assistant is responsible for administrative duties for executive managers. Many of these duties are in the nature of screening appointments and phone calls, making travel arrangements and other duties that are personal in nature.
Primary Responsibilities:

Preparing reports
Financial data
Training and supervising other support staff
Screen telephone calls
Managing appointments and meetings

The Executive Assistant is the personal [...]