Patti A. Diroff

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Chino, CA ****0

909-***-****; acsezq@r.postjobfree.com

**/**/** – KLINEDINST, Los Angeles (and as needed coverage in Orange County Office)

*/**/** ***** ********* Floater. Laid off. Civil and business litigation, insurance defense, light bankruptcy. Perform full legal assistant duties in handling overflow and covering desks including travel to Orange County Office. Type and draft correspondence, discovery, pleadings, and court forms; court filings (federal and state), e filings with Federal and State Courts; proofread & correct documents; mark/generate Tables of Contents & Authorities; calendaring (using software), follow up on deadlines, finalize & serve discovery; trial preparation; administrative and paralegal duties (some billed time). Go-to person to answer questions re Word and court procedures; perform procedural research; coordinate with attorneys/secretaries and follow up re deadlines/status.

10/1/08 - BLACK, COMPEAN, HALL & ELI, LLP, Los Angeles

9/11/12 Laid off. Legal Assistant to Administrative Partner. Insurance coverage and defense litigation and opinions, civil, business litigation and appellate. Prepared correspondence, discovery, pleadings (including motions and Tables of Contents & Authorities) and court forms; court filings, e filings with Federal Courts and Lexis-Nexis; calendaring and extensive follow up on deadlines; administrative and paralegal (some billed time) duties, including drafting correspondence, pleadings, Judicial Council forms; researched Federal and State court rules; compose/draft partner's time (entries) from information in emails and other sources to generate client bills; case management, maintain knowledge of cases, and initiate/draft case status report for partner; proofread documents for accuracy, including grammar and content; revise and redline documents; set up meetings, depositions and mediations, make travel arrangements.

11/07 – 9/08 Temporary Assignments. Legal assistant duties on temporary assignments including civil and

business litigation; typing and drafting correspondence, pleadings and court forms; court filings with state and federal courts, including e-filings; maintained calendars and follow up on deadlines; researched local rules; some corporate including revising and redlining documents and forms.

5/96 – 11/07 CALDWELL & GRANT, Los Angeles

Legal/Administrative Assistant-Floater. Laid off when firm closed. Overflow and covered desks of absent secretaries. Performed full assistant duties, including typing correspondence, discovery, pleadings (including motions and Tables of Contents & Authorities) and court forms; court filings (federal and state), e-filings with Federal Courts and Lexis-Nexis; maintaining calendars; follow up on deadlines, paralegal and administrative duties, including drafting correspondence, pleadings, Judicial Council forms. Civil and business litigation, appellate, light bankruptcy, and some corporate including record deeds, file UCC-1 and UCC-3, revising and redlining documents and forms. Set up procedures to organize workflow. Set up meetings, depositions and mediations, make travel arrangements. Coordinate workflow in office manager's absence. Researched court rules to keep secretaries updated.

2/94 – 4/96 DEMETRIOU, DEL GUERCIO, SPRINGER & MOYER, Los Angeles

Litigation/Admin. Assistant to Co-Managing Partner. Prepare correspondence, prepare and serve discovery and pleadings, including Tables of Contents and Authorities, court filings, appellate briefs (including amicus); client and court contact; extensive follow-up on work-in-progress; extensive check/proofreading work product for correct form and substance; research information from files and local rules; draft/compose correspondence and pleadings; set up meetings and depositions, make travel arrangements; administrative and paralegal duties. Environmental, eminent domain, civil litigation, appellate.

2/90 – 2/94 BROBECK, PHLEGER & HARRISON, Los Angeles

Litigation/Administrative Assistant. Litigation, including civil, business, employment, insurance. Prepare correspondence, discovery, pleadings (including motions and Tables of Contents & Authorities); draft notices, pleadings correspondence and forms; prepare and serve discovery and pleadings, researching information as necessary from court and attorney service; court filings; maintain calendar; follow up on deadlines; set up meetings and depositions, make travel arrangements. Performed secretarial and administrative duties for Senior Corporate Partner in San Diego Office and for litigation associate in Palo Alto Office, working independently and through telephone contact.

Corporate Legal/Administrative Assistant. Corporate transactions including: real estate, finance, funds, mergers and acquisitions, partnership and limited liability venture capital, risk capital partnership financing, investment banks, public and private securities offerings, domestic and foreign business organizations, public retirement funds, institutional investors. Duties included: Create multiple versions of drafts, revise and redline draft documents and forms, including contracts, agreements, deeds, UCC forms; send drafts to clients and other parties to transaction; record deeds and other security instruments; file UCC-1 and UCC-3 forms; create closing binders and files from closing party/document lists; worked overtime as necessary. Worked on large closings, including a national closing (weeknights and weekends) involving over 500 properties, including revising/redlining documents, tabbing signature/notary pages, setting up property files and subfiles and cross-checking same against property lists, filing pre-closing and executed security and other documents.

4/88 – 1/90 GRAHAM & JAMES, Los Angeles

Admin/Corporate Assistant to Head of Banking Department. Extensive telephone contact with clients; draft correspondence, obtain information to respond to billing inquiries from clients; administrative duties including set up meetings and arrange luncheons; revise and redline documents. Also worked overtime (evenings and weekends) on corporate transactions including: real estate, finance, funds, mergers and acquisitions, investment banks, public and private securities offerings, domestic and foreign business organizations, institutional investors. Duties included: create multiple versions of drafts, revise and redline draft documents and forms, including contracts, agreements, deeds, UCC forms; send drafts to clients and other parties to transaction; record deeds and other security instruments; file UCC-1 and UCC-3 forms; create closing binders and files from closing party/document lists.

Legal/Administrative Assistant: Civil litigation, involving Federal and State courts; type and file pleadings (including motions, Tables of Contents & Authorities), discovery, correspondence; research local rules; initiative in resolving day-to-day matters, including handling phone calls, gathering and relating information, setting up files and filing systems, preparing and filing pleadings in court, keeping calendar, monitoring deadlines, revise and redline documents; set up meetings and depositions, make travel arrangements.

1/86 - 6/87 THELEN, MARRIN, JOHNSON & BRIDGES, Los Angeles

Administrative/Legal Assistant: Medical malpractice litigation and arbitration, insurance defense, and corporate law. Typed correspondence, corporate documents, discovery, and pleadings (including motions and Tables of Content and Authorities); court filings; process/organize documents; order medical, employment, etc. records of adversary; close files, including preparation of all internal documentation; screen incoming pleadings and correspondence (i.e., interrogatory responses) for discovery information, case status, etc., and follow up on same; initiate/draft correspondence and handle incoming inquiries; set up meetings and depositions.

1/84 - 1/86 LEWIS, D'AMATO, BRISBOIS & BISGAARD, Los Angeles

Litigation/Administrative Assistant: Litigation, including insurance defense, medical malpractice, products liability, personal injury; prepared discovery and pleadings (including motions and Tables of Content and Authorities); set up meetings and depositions; typed and drafted correspondence and notices re motions, depositions, etc.; administrative duties, including extensive phone work and contact with clients, courts, other law firms.

1982 - 1983 Temporary Assignments. Performed various duties as legal/administrative secretary, on temporary assignments for law firms, in a variety of areas of law, including civil and business litigation, products liability, personal injury, insurance defense; and various areas of corporate law, including securities, tax and pension, estate planning, real estate, and contract; paralegal and administrative duties.

6/81 – 4/82 BARGER & WOLEN, Los Angeles

Corporate/litigation secretary: Organized documents for real estate land acquisition and loan transactions; partnership. Duties included: Create multiple versions of drafts, revise and manually redline draft documents and forms, including contracts, agreements, UCC; send drafts to clients and other parties to transaction; record deeds, file UCC-1 and UCC-3, prepared and indexed closing documents into binders; prepared and filed documents to set up corporations and partnerships; prepared foreclosure documents; litigation duties including court filings and indexing pleadings.

EDUCATION: PASADENA CITY COLLEGE (3.5+ GPA)

1980 AA Degree, Business Administration

1982 Paralegal Certificate (2-year program)

Achievement Award presented at graduation

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles

Journalism

Business Finance

TYPING: 75+ wpm (no shorthand, proficient with dictaphone)

SOFTWARE/ Word 2003, Word 2010; Word Perfect 8, 9; Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Pro, Adobe/Nuance; Docs Open,

SKILLS iManage; Legal Solutions, Forms WorkFlow; Timeslips, Carpe Diem, Redlining Programs (Delta View, Compare Write, Track Changes/Word native), Calendaring Programs Compulaw, Prolaw, CoreRelate; Pacer, ECF Federal Court, Lexis-Nexis E-Filing, OCSC/OneLegal Efiling softwares; trained in Excel and Powerpoint.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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