Real Estate Office
Resume:
Debbie M. Drewick
Rocklin, CA 95677
916-***-**** Home
916-***-**** Cell
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Objective: To utilize my educational and employment experience in an
environment where I
can also learn and grow.
Education: De Anza College - Associates Degree in Paralegal Education
Certifications: Notary Public
Skills: Knowledge of all general law office duties, plus Microsoft
Word, WordPerfect Suite, Excel, Legal Solutions and Hotdocs,
Accurint and Quickbooks.
Employment Experience:
September 2003 - May 2011 Miner & Kelly, LLP, 813 F Street, Sacramento,
CA 95814
Personal injury and criminal defense - I supported up to 3 attorneys.
Responsibilities included preparing pleadings, discovery, and general
correspondence to clients, opposing counsel, arbitrators/mediators, and
court; shared in preparing complaints and demands; prepared documents for
service of process, including locating individuals. Responsibilities
further included managing calendaring statute of limitations, scheduling
client meetings, depositions (parties/non-parties/expert/non-expert),
arbitrations/mediations, settlement conferences and trials, and all general
trial deadlines; prepared discovery requests and responses, meet with
clients to prepare the discovery responses, ordering police reports,
medical records and billing records from various facilities, including
initial review and distribution of incoming mail/facsimile/e-mail.
Responsibilities also included file handling and organizing from inception
to completion of case, answering incoming calls and greeting clients,
attorneys and other individuals. Managed the business and client trust
accounts through Quickbooks.
October 2002 - August 2003 Simoncini & Associates, 1694 The Alameda, San
Jose, CA 95126
Construction defect, insurance defense, employment law, public entity and
business law - Initially started out supporting up to 5 attorneys as a
legal assistant. Duties included preparation of pleadings, discovery,
letters to clients, opposing counsel and carriers; preparing documents for
service of process; coordinating calendaring of depositions (expert and non-
expert); and trial preparation. Duties led to summarizing discovery,
locating key information within discovery responses, prepared deposition
summaries to insurance carriers. Duties also included file handling and
organizing.
May 1998 - June 2002 Law Offices of Gordon G. Fraser, 99 North First
Street, Suite 250,
San Jose, CA 95113, 408-***-****
Insurance defense, business litigation and collections - I supported up to
3 attorneys and acted as the sole secretarial support. Responsibilities
included file handling from inception through trial and/or conclusion of
case; prepared pleadings, discovery, letters to clients, carriers, and
opposing counsel; trial and discovery calendaring including depositions
(parties and non-parties), expert witnesses (retained and non-retained) and
mediations. Duties included trial preparation of in limine motions, BAJI
instructions, jury instructions, court statements, and subpoenas of
witnesses. Duties also included general office procedures, including
initial review and distribution of all mail; answered incoming calls, which
included 5 lines and greeted clients and attorneys.
August 1991 - May 1998 Law Offices of Martha J. Olson, 2 North Second
Street, Suite 200,
San Jose, CA 95113, 408-***-****
Family law and Criminal defense - Initially started out as a file clerk
with duties including filing, reception fill-in, post office runs, bank and
court runs. This position led to a full-time secretarial position to be
the sole secretarial support for 2 attorneys. Duties included general
office duties including initial review of mail. Duties included drafting
letters to clients and opposing counsels, preparation of pleadings,
scheduling court appearances, depositions and mediations. Along with the
other duties, responsibilities were to answer phones and greet people on an
appointment and walk-in basis.
August 1989 - June 1991 Law Offices of Samuel Swift, 2103 Almaden
Blvd., Suite 102, San
Jose, CA 95125, 408-***-****
Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation - General office duties including
filing, copying, bank and court runs, and answering phones.
1987 - 1989 Century 21 A-1 Real Estate Office 1323 Jacklin Road,
Milpitas,
CA 95035, 408-***-****
Duties included answering phones for 10 or more lines, taking messages for
over 15 real estate agents, worked along side the agents as needed,
distributing mail, filing, copying, typing up Century 21 Regional forms and
reports.
References: Furnished upon request.
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