LUTRELLE SMART

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Denver, Colorado 80206

Telephone: 303-***-****

EXPERIENCE

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April 2008 - Legal Secretary/Office Manager/Receptionist

August 2010

I was responsible for covering the front desk in a suite of

law offices for attorneys specializing in civil

litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, immigration and

criminal defense. Before a downturn in business, my duties

included :

. Servicing the office equipment

. Scheduling and supervising repairs and new

installation of systems

. Answering multiple telephone lines

. Creating monthly billing

. Handling extensive client contact

. Acting as liaison to the Court when the attorneys

were in trial, and performing secretarial duties as

requested.

January 2006- Contract Positions, Denver

April 2008

Kelly Services - Long term assignment with Colorado State

University,

Denver Campus as an administrative assistant.

City and County of Denver - Administrative assistant for a

long term assignment for the Kinship Program, Department of

Human Services

August 2004- Legal Secretary, Arapahoe County Attorney's Office,

Littleton

March 2005

In this position I had responsibility for supporting

several attorneys and paralegals. Duties included:

. Drafting and editing legal documents using Word

. Trial preparation

. E-filing using Lexis Nexis

. Answering calls and docketing; calendaring with

Outlook

. Doing legal and Internet research.

February 2001- Executive Assistant, Bigelow & Company, Investment

Bankers

March 2004

My role was assisting twelve executives, including the

Chief Executive Officer, and managing multiple calendars

and assignments, such as:

. Writing reports and correspondence; Internet research

. Preparing expense reports and use of Excel

. Making travel arrangements

. Screening calls, scheduling meetings; PowerPoint

presentations.

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January 1997- Legal Secretary, McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney, Denver

December 1999

Assigned to a senior partner in this litigation firm

specializing in insurance defense, I assisted other

attorneys in the office as time permitted. Before I left

to take another position, my duties included:

. Preparing legal documents from transcription using

Word Perfect and Word

. Working on trial preparation

. Docketing

. Filing

. Preparing expense reports

. Covering the front desk, setting up meetings and

interacting with vendors

. Working as a team with the paralegal on large cases.

August 1995- Executive Assistant, Actual Systems of America

(Software

January 1997 Developer), Denver

With our home office in Scotland, I was required to learn a very

different culture and set of expectations. Before the

company sold, my work covered:

. Setting up an entire satellite office, from choosing

furniture and filing systems to instituting a health

plan

. Acting as liaison to our home office in Scotland

. Working on QuickBooks to do daily accounts

. Drafting correspondence and taking minutes at

meetings

. Placing orders for hardware and software and tracking

the purchases

. Interfacing with the Board of Directors who were from

all parts of the country, primarily by telephone and

at monthly meetings

. Making travel and hotel arrangements

. Assuming human resource functions, such as helping

create a personnel manual and keeping employee

records.

EDUCATION The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

B.A., College of Literature, Science and the Arts, English

Major

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