Legal Assistant/Paralegal

FELECIA HOLLOWAY

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LEGAL ASSISTANT

To gain employment in the legal field with a broad range of responsibilities and challenges that will enhance my professional

skills and offer opportunities for advancement.

Professional Experience

MOORE LAW, LLC ATLANTA, GA October 2010 to September 2013

(Paralegal/Legal Assistant)

Drafted and prepared legal documents for Worker’s Compensation, Personal Injury, Family law, Name changes, and

Probate matters.

Set up interrogatories and request for production of documents.

Prepared motions, orders, depositions, discovery, subpoenas, affidavits, and mediations.

Independently managed and processed over 20 personal injury cases

Manage all medical records and summarize them.

Prepare settlement DEMANDS to insurance companies and also help with negotiating clients bills.

Responsible for filing Board forms with ICMS;

Assist with trial preparations; prepare trial notebooks.

Assist clients with court filings with family law; handle investigations for clients as well.

Interview clients, witnesses and communicate with expert witnesses

Filing documents with all courts; superior, state, magistrate, etc.

Maintained attorney calendar and appointments; answer phones, set up new cases.

Interacted professionally with clients, attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and all other staff members.

Open and closed the office

Processed payroll for the employees

allen kopet & associates, pllc – atlanta, ga December 2006 to Dec. 2009

(Legal Assistant Insurance Defense)

Managed all administrative tasks for two attorneys in Worker’s Compensation and general liability department.

Opened new files, prepared folders and indexes, computed matter numbers and logged in for accounting department.

Responsible for filing Board forms on line with ICMS and filing documents with the courts; Prepared, typed and filed

Complaints and Answers

Drafted legal documents such as discovery, motions and briefs.

Transcribed and edited dictation.

Scheduled mediations, depositions and IME’s; Answered phones and handled heavy filing

Manages medical records, including ordering records, photocopying, file and serve, as well as effectively managed court

filings.

Prepared discovery in various cases

Composed Stipulation and Agreements and Releases.

Maintain Attorney appointments and calendaring; update attorney case list.

delta airlines– atlanta, ga 2003 to 2005

(Legal Assistant)

Worked for two attorneys in international and labor law.

Composed and revised legal documents for attorneys, including letters, depositions, and court filings.

Scheduled all appointments and briefings for attorneys, as well as track and maintain busy attorney schedules.

Tracked and accounted for all expenses, utilizing correct client codes and invoicing procedures.

Scheduled all travel arrangements for attorneys, averaging 3 trips per month.

Updated pleadings; Developed cases by scheduling arbitrations, depositions, preparing and forwarding citations and

subpoenas, drafting petitions, motions, and discovery.

MIRANT CORPORATION ATLANTA, GA 2001 2002

(Legal Assistant) Corporate Secretary & Securities

Provided administrative support to Vice President/Corporate Secretary and Security Counsel; process and distributed the

10Q, 10K, 8Q filings/monthly transaction reports to Directors, draft legal correspondents and legal documents

Prepare and process all corporate filings for U.S. entities; renewals, cancellations, mergers, acquisitions, and dissolutions

Copying, filing, notebooks, answer phones, prepare presentations

Generate written consent forms and by laws

Generate reports for proofing date entry and verifying data.

EQUIFAX ATLANTA, GA 1999 2001

(Legal Business Account Specialist)

Opened and approved new business accounts for Equifax services, products, and software

Updated and audited legal compliance agreements

Verify business licenses with D&B (Dunn and Bradstreet) and pulled credit reports

Assigned customer numbers and interacted with sales representatives and acted as laison between sales representatives

and clients.

Very knowledgeable of Data Consumer Attribute Table (DCAT); turned on products requested by the client; Assigned

security digits and verified numbers and industry codes of affiliates

Scanned and files legal compliance documents and service agreements.

Education

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY

STATESBORO, GA

Major: BS Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (1997)

Minor: Sociology

Available upon request

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