High School Medical
Resume:
CAROLANN J. ASCOLESI
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY 40165
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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