CAROLANN J. ASCOLESI

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SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY 40165

502-***-****

OBJECTIVE: To always do my very best and be the best I can be.

EDUCATION: Graduated an all girls' parochial high school in June 1968.

EXPERIENCE:

May 2, 2005 - Feb 23, 2010 Legal Assistant

Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Louisville, KY 40202

Began as a resource secretary at the legacy Ogden Newell Welch law firm on a temporary

basis and was offered a permanent position. Assigned to the Utilities Department and continued

there after a merger, picking up an attorney in Business & Finance. After the two attorneys in

Utilities left the firm, I continued working for the Business & Finance attorney and filled in

where shorthanded. In September 2007 I was assigned a permanent desk working for two

attorneys, an accountant and three paralegals in Estate Planning & Administration, and continued

working for the attorney in Business and Finance until his departure in late 2009.

Responsibilities included straight typing, copy work, revisions, digital dictation, time entry,

faxing, filing, photocopying, scanning, keeping matters up to date in Client Profiles (CP), setting

up meetings, scheduling conference rooms, ordering lunch, check requests, registering for

seminars and CLEs, keeping track of expenses and reimbursements, answering phones, taking

messages and sending calls to voice mail.

June 2003 – Feb 2005 Legal Secretary

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Louisville, KY 40202

Worked for attorneys in various departments and answered their phones, took messages, did

dictation, typing, filing, set up meetings, photocopying, etc.

Feb 1977 – March 2003 Legal Secretary

Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz

80 Pine St, New York, NY 10005

Over the years I worked for several attorneys and the Managing Partner in this plaintiff's

personal injury and medical malpractice law firm. Among my duties were answering telephones,

meeting with and assisting clients, copy work and straight typing, dictation, Dictaphone machine,

filing, photocopying, faxing, drafting and preparing pleadings for court and service on opposing

counsel, requesting police reports, medical and hospital records, and calculating attorneys' fees

and nets to clients based on retainers.

June 1968 – January 1977

Began in the Metropolitan Division of The Bank of New York, Wall Street, NYC, where I

remained for two years before moving on to the field of law, first at Mendes & Mount; then at

Brauner Baron Rosenzweig & Kligler; and then at Greenbaum Wolff & Ernst, before finding a

home at the legacy Gair, Gair & Conason firm.

KNOWLEDGE: Shorthand

Typing

Dictaphone Machines

Computer skills

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

LegalBar

Client Profiles

Fax Machines

Calculators

Photocopiers/Scanners

REFERENCES: Will be supplied upon request.

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