Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Preparing and distributing invoices for billing clients or paying account expenses.
• Preparing, proofreading, or processing legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.
• Making travel arrangements for attorneys.
• Mailing, fax, or arranging for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials.
• Receiving and placing telephone calls.
• Scheduling and making appointments.
• Making photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed matter.
• Organizing and maintaining law libraries, documents, and case files.
• Assisting attorneys in collecting information such as employment, medical, and other records.
• Attending legal meetings, such as client interviews, hearings, or depositions, and taking notes.
• Drafting and typing office memos.
• Reviewing legal publications and performing database searches for identifying laws and court decisions relevant to pending cases.
• Submitting articles and information from searches to attorneys for reviewing and approval for using.