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Can anyone tell me about the Legal Services Specialist MOS in the USMC?

how long is the schooling??? what does it translate to in the civilian world??? will i still have a chance to be stationed overseas in a LSS capacity

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1. Marine Corps (USMC) Enlisted Job Descriptions MOS 4421, Legal Services Specialist Summary. The legal services specialist MOS encompasses every facet of legal administration with the exception of courts-martial reporting and transcribing duties. General duties involve the legal operational, managerial, clerical, and administrative duties incident to an LSSS, law center, or office of the staff judge advocate. Typical duties include the preparation and typing of general correspondence, forms, reports, wills, powers of attorney, and other documents dealing with legal and quasi-legal matters; checking all completed work for typographical accuracy; maintaining office correspondence files, directives, and publications; if senior in grade, directing the activities of all enlisted personnel performing duties in an LSSS, law center, or office of the staff judge advocate; and, acting as principal enlisted advisor to a staff judge advocate on troop morale, welfare, discipline, and all other matters pertaining to enlisted personnel. Selected Marines may attend follow-on training at the Legal Services Scopist Course. Legal services scopists are responsible to assist legal services reporters (stenotype) in the preparation and assembly of typewritten, summarized or verbatim transcripts. Requirements/Prerequisites (1) GT score of 100 or higher. (2) Demonstrate a typing proficiency of 35 words per minute and complete the Legal Administration/Legal Services Specialist Course. (3) Must have received no Nonjudicial Punishment or been convicted by courts-martial or civilian court for any offense involving controlled substances, nor convicted by courts-martial or civilian court for any offense involving moral turpitude. Duties. For a complete listing of duties and tasks, refer to MCO 1510.51_, Individual Training Standards. Related DOT Classification/DOT Code (1) Legal Secretary 201.362-010. (2) Paralegal Assistant 119.267-026. Related Military Skill. Administrative Clerk, 0151.