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( Calendaring ( Trial Preparation ( Front Desk-

Reception

( Tracking Court Deadlines ( Pleading-Motion Drafting ( Payroll

Timekeeping

( Deposition Coordination ( Discovery Service ( Data Entry

( Client Preparation ( Deposition Noticing (

Filing

( Travel Coordination ( Subpoena Service ( Copy,

Scan, Fax

( Meet and Confer ( Exhibit Binding (

Transcription

( Contract Negotiation ( Bates Stamping ( Mail

Routing

Legal-Medical Word Processing Experience

( Transcription of Workers' Compensation and Insurance Investigation

Interviews

( Drafting of Documents, QME Reports, Denial Letters, General

Correspondence

( Court Reporting Transcript Preparation of Depositions,

Arbitrations, Court Proceedings

( Keyboarding (certified at 85 w.p.m.) ( Document and

Operations Management

( Transcription (certified Medical Transcriber) ( Drafting,

Formatting, Proofreading-Editing

Software Programs and Computer Experience

( Microsoft Outlook ( LexisNexis

( Microsoft Word ( ITAS (Federal Government timekeeping for

payroll)

( Microsoft Excel ( GovTrip (Federal Government travel

arrangement)

( Power Point ( Practice Manager (Federal Government case

management)

( Word Perfect ( Dictaphone and Earphone (manual verbatim

transcription)

( Adobe ( Stenography Shorthand (for Court Reporting)

Professional Law Office Experience

February 6, 2012 to January 31, 2014

Legal Assistant - Administrative Assistant

STG International, Inc.

Contractor for U.S. Federal Government: Department of Health & Human

Services, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Building, San Francisco,

CA

Roles: Legal Assistant to the Chief Counsel and two Deputy Chief Counsels,

and six other Regional Counsels. Administrative duties over the office.

Calendaring-Microsoft Outlook: Managed the Chief Counsel's calendar.

Scheduled appointments, deadlines, and events for the office.

Payroll Timekeeping: "ITAS" software program. Tracked and logged in all

leave hours taken and extra hours worked for nine attorneys, submitted

bimonthly reports to Headquarters in Washington, D.C. for payroll

calculating. Responsible for sporadic audits and cross-checking of various

spreadsheet timekeeping reports to ensure accuracy.

Travel Arrangements: "GovTrip" software program. Arranged travel for nine

attorneys, including airline reservations, hotel reservations, rental cars,

taxies, and daily food allowance budget. Oversight of billing for all

aspects of the trip, submitting travel requests and billing vouchers to

Washington, D.C. Headquarters for approval and repayment to the attorneys'

business-issued credit cards.

Data Entry: "Practice Manager" software program. Entered in new cases to

be opened. Sporadically input details of the case and tracked due dates

for follow-up action. Routinely uploaded new documents generated for

specific cases. Closed resolved cases.

Other Duties: Formatted and edited memoranda and legal documents, exhibit

preparation, coordination and setting up of webinar and video conference

office training sessions, phone and reception, incoming and outgoing mail

and routing. Worked with confidential documents and attorney-client work

product.

Accomplishments: Assisted and supported the office's management team

through an interdepartmental leadership change. Took an unorganized and

disarrayed compilation of thousands of documents and folders and organized

them into a complete and easy-to-locate filing system.

May 6, 2002 to July 15, 2011

Legal Assistant

Paul & Hanley, LLP

Plaintiff's Personal Injury Law Firm, Berkeley, CA

Roles: Legal Assistant encompassing a broad range of duties. Assisted all

the firm's attorneys, legal secretaries, and investigators.

Calendaring-Microsoft Outlook: Oversaw master calendar scheduling for the

firm. Responsible for assigning incoming opposing parties' motions and

discovery requests to Paul & Hanley's case attorneys, tracking and tasking

opposition and reply due dates. Tracked and updated changes in due dates

to master calendar and master task list such as court orders, briefing

schedules, stipulations between parties, daily tentative rulings, Motions

to Amend, Motions for Preference, Motions for Continuation, and Status

Conferences.

Deposition Coordination: Drafted Notices of Depositions and Subpoenas.

Interfaced with process servers for hand service on agents and non-party

entities, opposing counsel and adverse deposition witnesses. Oversaw

Outlook master calendar involving depositions of plaintiff and defense

witnesses, custodians-of-records and persons-most-knowledgeable, and

plaintiff-defense expert witnesses. Coordinated depositions with Paul &

Hanley's attorneys, legal secretaries, investigators, and the firms'

clients. Meet-and-confer with designated defense firm Berry & Berry

according to the S.F. asbestos General Orders. Established deposition

timelines, locations, expense obligations, court reporter coverage, and

other logistical deposition requirements. Tracked and updated internal

master calendar as depositions were continued, cancelled or changed. Kept

Paul & Haley's staff, opposing parties, court reporters, clients, and all

deponents apprised and updated of all deposition details and scheduling

changes via phone, pleading notice, facsimile, USPS, or e-mail.

Word Processor: Drafting and formatting offensive litigation-related

discovery documents and pleadings such as Request for Admissions,

Interrogatory Forms, and Request for Production of Documents. Drafting and

formatting of motions and correspondence. Transcription.

General Office Support: Formatted and served objections to opposing

parties' deposition notices. Worked with court reporter firms to ensure

optimum quality service, pricing, expedited turn-around, and rush requests.

Daily vocal phone deposition internal hotline updates.

Accomplishments: Received two separate position promotions spanning nine

years. Successfully provided legal support for approximately 20 attorneys,

six legal secretaries, and three investigators. Handled heavy workloads.

Assisted Dean Hanley, Partner, in contract negotiations with multiple court

reporting firms to provide Paul & Hanley with the most cost-effective and

efficient court reporting service. Known for dependability and

consistently meeting internal scheduling requirements and court deadlines

in a fast-paced and busy environment.

Professional Legal-Medical Documents Word Processing, Proofreading-Editing

Experience

July 1999 to April 2002

Transcriber, Proofreader-Editor, Operations

TASK Transcription Services

Medical-Legal Documents Management, Transcribing, Word Processing, Pleasant

Hill, CA

Transcription: Produced heavy verbatim transcription work from audio

dictation. Regular data entry functions such as filling in medical chart

information and billing rosters. Heavy emphasis on the insurance field and

Workers' Compensation.

Proofreading-Editing: Oversaw quality control of medical-legal reports,

recorded statements, AOE/COE investigation reports, doctors' AME and QME

reports, and correspondence prior to client distribution. Critiqued,

proofread-edited. Amended grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and

formatting problems according to TASK's internal standards.

Client and Staff Management / Operations: Primary telephone contact for

the office. Coordinated and oversaw remedial measures and amendments to

problems TASK's clients had with work product. Managed work assignments

for approximately 10 transcribers and oversaw the product distribution to

TASK's clients.

May 1991 to October 1998

Court Reporting Transcript Preparation

Aiken & Welch Court Reporters, Oakland, CA

Formatting, Proofreading-Editing, and Word Processing of transcripts for

discovery depositions, court proceedings and arbitrations for approximately

ten different certified shorthand court reporters. Translated electronic

stenography shorthand to English. Proofreading-editing, grammatical and

punctuation corrections, sentence structure and content amendments

according to quality-control standards. Emphasis on doctors' medical-legal

malpractice and personal injury lawsuit depositions transcripts.

Education

( Martinez Business Training Center, Martinez, CA (1-1995 to 7-1996)

( Trinity Business College, San Francisco, CA (5-1990 to 5-1992)

( Academy of Stenographic Arts, San Francisco, CA (3-1986 to 7-1989)

Legal Assistant - Law Office Support

12 years experience Assisting Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, Paralegals,

Investigators

Private Practice Personal Injury and Federal Government (Health and Human

Services)

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