LANA J. SEGARRA
South Orange, New Jersey 07079
************@*********.***
Career Objective: To build an interesting position offering challenge
and responsibility for my legal and/or corporate career in
the upcoming future.
September, 2008 - Donahue, Hagen, Klein, Newsome & O'Donnell
Present Legal Assistant responsible for two associates specializing in
family law litigation handling all pleadings,
correspondence, contact with clients/adversary, attending
trials as second chair.
October, 2002 - Del Mauro, DiGiamo & Knepper, P.C.
July, 2008 Legal Assistant to senior partner specializing in life, health
and disability defense litigation in both New York and New
Jersey. Responsibilities include drafting of
correspondence, pleadings and discovery, as well as
scheduling depositions and conferences with clients and
witnesses and trial preparation. Heavy litigation contact
with adversaries and in-house counsel of multiple insurance
companies, maintained and organized all active files.
April, 1997 - Stanton, Hughes, Diana, Salsberg, Cerra & Mariani,
P.C.
January, 2002 Legal Assistant responsible for drafting correspondence,
motions, answers, and briefs with regard to heavy defense
litigation in employments, sexual harassment and
discrimination law. Scheduled depositions and oversaw
filing of documents, with PERC and EEOC, as well as federal
and state courts.
April, 1991 - Giblin & Combs, P.C.
April, 1997 Legal Assistant responsible for heavy defense litigation in
medical malpractice and personal injury law including
filing of motions, answers and briefs, as well as, assisted
in real estate closings, scheduling of depositions and
trial preparation.
Career Related Experience with Dictaphone, Scanner(s) as well as, various
software programs
Skills: including: MS Word, Outlook, Excel, File Site, Elite, Adobe
Reader, Family Soft, E-Filing, Pacer, Westlaw, Lexis/Nexus,
Word Perfect 6.0 - 9.0, Sidekick, Timeslips, TABS III,
QuickBooks and PC Law. My references will be furnished
upon request. A Member of the Professional Services Group
in the State Of New Jersey.
Certifications: The Rutgers Business Center: MS Excel Fundamentals; MS
Word Fundamentals (v.a09); MS PowerPoint Fundamentals; and
MS Access.