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San Antonio, TX

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Professional Profile

Experienced Legal Secretary with strong leadership and relationship-building skills, excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to interact effectively
  • with senior management
  • Extremely organized
  • Proficient in litigation
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Word,
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills
  • Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Strong verbal communication
  • Express
  • Quick learner
  • File/records maintenance
  • Skilled at legal/non-legal research
  • Data management
  • Prepared legal correspondence and
  • memorandum
  • Proficient in transcribing/finalizing
  • pleadings

Relevant Experience

Legal Acumen

  • In-depth knowledge of legal proceeding, briefs, motions, client assessment and review.
  • Assisted attorneys with trial preparation, developed trial exhibits to motions and reviewed/organized documents for trial discovery.
  • Legal Administration Tasks
  • Generated, typed, formatted and edited letters, documents, motions, briefs and client forms.
  • Effective Communication
  • Followed up and kept track of expected orders from the court and correspondence from opposing attorneys.

Experience

Process Server
February 2011 to Current
Confidential – Baltimore, MD

  • Service of summons to defendants in collection and foreclosure cases

Legal Secretary
November 2007 to November 2009
Confidential – Baltimore, MD

Supported a team of three attorneys; prepared routine legal correspondence and memoranda; prepared discovery and pleadings as well as trial and exhibit binders trials; maintained calendars and made travel arrangements for trials.

Legal Secretary
June 2006 to November 2007
Confidential – Baltimore, MD

Prepared routine legal correspondence and memoranda for two partners; prepared and electronically filed pleadings for District of Columbia courts as well as maintained calendars for attorneys.

Legal Secretary
June 2004 to June 2006
Confidential – Philadelphia, PA

Prepared discovery and pleadings, created trial and exhibit binders for oral argument and depositions; prepared correspondence, accounting and financial documents for analysis as well as maintained calendars, set up meetings between counsel and set up medical examinations of parties.

Legal Secretary
January 2001 to January 2004
Confidential – Philadelphia, PA

Prepared routine legal correspondence and memoranda for attorney; greeted clients; managed routine monthly supply checklist

Education

Business Administration, Associates Degree
Paralegal Studies Certificate
Legal Studies Bachelor of Science presently attending
Bachelors of Science

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