Assistant Real Estate

901-***-**** Arlene Eads abkd1s@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND ABILITIES

. Standard and multifaceted administrative office skills

. Intricate implementation of Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, telephone

systems

. Type 120 to 125 wpm

. Experience in wide range of areas of law

. Adapts easily, very flexible, reliable, conscientious

. Exceptional ability for problem solving

April 21, 2009 to present - Employment Agencies in Memphis, TN

Temporary Legal Secretary/Assistant:

. Responsible for filing, file inventorying, transcription, answering

phones, document preparation, proofreading, time entry, editing and

revisions, emailing, mailing, scanning, photocopying, opening and

closing files, calendaring, electronic filing in district and

bankruptcy courts, setting motions online.

. Created Excel pie charts using formulas. Created documents such as

civil warrants, alias civil warrants, garnishments, subpoenas and

other legal documents in insurance law office.

. Entrusted with the most complex client service issues as a result of

exceptional ability to promptly resolve concerns and satisfy clients.

. Areas of law: Litigation, Corporate, Tax, Securities, Commercial,

Bankruptcy, Environmental, Healthcare, Real Estate,

Insurance/Subrogation and Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and

others.

August 28, 2006 to April 21, 2009 - Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Memphis, TN

. Areas of law: Litigation, Corporate, Tax, Securities, Commercial,

Bankruptcy, Environmental, Healthcare, Real Estate.

Word Processor:

. In charge of all word processing projects. As the only word

processor, entrusted with all word processing services to senior

partners, partners, a total of 38 attorneys, 10 paralegals and 16

legal assistants.

. Worked closely with partners, associates and staff troubleshooting

complex software issues. Responsible for training personnel.

. Responsible for assisting and backing up receptionist. Also performed

Office Assistant duties.

. Frequently worked in Word Perfect.

. Often attended in-house software classes.

. Responsible for dictation transcription, revising, proofreading;

formatting, and editing Word letters, reports; creating forms;

revising legal documents along with creating, revising and repairing

Excel spreadsheets; entering time (fee slips) for attorneys;

converting documents to Word; created PowerPoint presentations;

redlined documents in Deltaview.

Floater Legal Assistant:

. Temporarily fulfilled the job duties of legal assistants when they

were absent due to vacation, personal time off or sickness; as floater

assisted partners and associates.

. Responsible for client billing, travel arrangements, revising proforma

books, revising contracts, agreements, and other legal documents,

preparing closing binders and closing documents, preparing and

revising charts, photocopying, scanning.

Legal Assistant for Associate:

. Responsible for revising pleadings and briefs, photocopying, scanning,

creating charts, preparing binders, creating and preparing letters,

mailings, emails, telephone calls with clients and vendors,

calendaring.

Paralegal Assistant:

. Responsible for research, preparation of trial notebooks and working

case notebooks, creation of Excel and Word charts as exhibits for

mediation and trial, creating charts for deposition designations,

assisting paralegals with reviewing document productions (electronic

and paper), and performed electronic online court filings in district

and bankruptcy courts.

August 29, 2005 to August 28, 2006 - Employment Agencies in Memphis, TN.

Administrative Assistant/Legal Assistant:

. Entrusted with reformatting billing system from invoices to statements

in QuickBooks, then from QuickBooks to Word.

. Responsible for filing, answering phones, document preparation,

proofreading, editing and revisions.

. Entrusted with instituting administrative procedures for smooth

operation of attorney's office (family law/divorce (domestic),

construction, real estate); receptionist/secretary for this office.

. Applied wide variety of terminology including engineering terms in

engineering office (secretary/receptionist for this office); insurance

agency when completing tape transcription, creating bonds, claims,

answering telephones; other duties included general office and

training personnel.

December, 1997 to December, 2005 - Olsen Coterie (Partner), Pomona,

California

Paralegal/Document Preparation:

. The firm (1) prepared and handled asset protection documents in the

form of trusts and accompanying documents; (2) prepared pro per

filings for plaintiff's claims/complaints. These claims included job

discrimination, auto dealer fraud, mechanical repair fraud, wrongful

termination, wrongful conviction, etc. and (3) preparation of legal

research for attorneys for both civil and criminal proceedings, (4)

legal strategy in trial and (5) assisting in jury selection.

August, 1996 to November 1997 - Kent Daniels & Assoc., 1509 W. Cameron

Ave., Suite 210 W. Covina, CA 91790

Floater Legal Secretary/Word Processor:

. Temporarily employed at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles (2,100

attorneys in 27 offices around the world).

. Primarily Floater Legal Secretary to senior partners, other partners

and associate attorneys during secretary's absence. There were

approximately 300 attorneys in this office. Duties as Legal

Secretary: Preparation, drafting, proofing, editing of pleadings,

trial briefs, complaints, motions, and all other documents needed for

law suits, both civil and criminal; answering telephone and handled

clients requests and information; photocopying of pleadings, exhibits

and reports; handled client financial accounts, billing; assisted with

trial preparation; performed records retention for client files:

specifically, inventorying of on-going and completed client cases.

. Entrusted with special projects in Word Processing Center for partners

and associate attorneys when not on floating assignments. One such

project was conversion of legal forms from WordPerfect 5.1 to Word

6.0.

EARLY CAREER SUMMARY

1978 to 1994

. Owned and operated a business that connected court reporters to

scopists. Kept general ledger, answered telephones, used Word and

Excel.

. As a Scopist, performed court reporting scoping - which is translating

steno into English text. Court reporters hire scopists to prepare

court transcripts. Implemented training received via computer

courses.

. As a novelist, researched, drafted, edited, proofread five 500+ page

manuscripts (unpublished) requiring advanced use of grammar,

punctuation and vocabulary. Actively pursued publication of three of

these novels until funds needed to proceed forward were not

forthcoming. Received at-home training and correspondence courses for

manuscript production.

. Worked at IBM for one year (1978-1979): As security personnel,

entrusted with assisting in securing front entrance of secure

building; as receptionist greeted visitors and in charge of log book,

answered 120-line call board; assisted travel agent and made travel

arrangements for corporate personnel; answered switchboard when

operator absent; distributed mail.

EDUCATION

1971 - 1975 Germantown High School; Germantown, Tennessee

. Major: Business and English

1976 to 1977 and 1981 - Ambassador College, Texas and California campuses

. Major: Music (Concert Pianist), Minor: English

1996 to 1997: Latham & Watkins

. Formal job on-site training/classes, word processing, legal secretarial

classes, billing classes (Timeslips)

2006 to 2009: Bass, Berry & Sims

. Formal training and classes in Excel, Word 2003 with iCreate (database

mgt.), PowerPoint, Webview/Elite, Worksite/Filesite. Trained in Westlaw

and LexisNexis.

REFERENCES

Brad Ottinger: 901-***-****

Susan Carr: 901-***-****

Joyce Weaver: 901-***-****

Software: Proficient in: (Proficient in: (1) Windows 2000-2007, (2) MS

Word 2002, 2003, 2007 (3) Excel, (4) PowerPoint, (5) Outlook (emails and

calendaring), (6) Deltaview (redlining), (7) Adobe Acrobat, (8) iCreate,

(9) Client Connect, (10) Web Elite (billing/time entry), (11) Worksite

(database mgt.), (12) Omnipage (13) PaperPort (conversion), (13) Juris

(billing/time entry), (14) Netdocs (database mgt.), (15) Orion (time

entry/billing), (16) Worldox (database mgt.), (17) Mercury (billing),

(18) TABS (time entry/billing), (19) AccuRoute, (20) Timeslips, (21) Word

Perfect.

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