Real Estate Medical

JACQUELINE A. DUNCAN

P.O. Box ****

Elgin, IL ***21

Fax: 630-***-****

Cell: 630-***-****

Email: abmdy3@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bachelor of Music,

Education/Performance

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA;

Completed 1 year, Graduate School - Music and

Performance;

CHICAGO COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, Chicago, IL

Studied court reporting, transcription, and medical

terminology;

COLDWELL BANKER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE

St. Charles, IL; currently licensed, doing temp sales

assoc. as the opportunity arises;

CHICAGO CHAPTER APPRAISAL INSTITUTE, Chicago, IL

Series of Courses for Appraisal-passed course and

state exam.

BUSINESS/LEGAL SKILLS:

Computer/Legal Skills: Worked as a permanent & floater secretary,

assisting attorneys in all practice areas (tax,

litigation, corporate, real estate, family law,

wealth management & estate planning, banking, medical

malpractice; duties included searching, retrieving,

editing, transcribing documents and correspondence;

court docketing; draft marital settlement & joint

parenting agreements; Notary Public; time entry and

billing; processing new client/matter paperwork;

completed of a court reporting program. Obtain

flight, hotel and dinner reservations; contributing

columnist to Chicago office newsletter (Latham &

Watkins); Microsoft Word for Windows, Word Perfect

for Windows, Windows NT, XP, MS Outlook, Hummingbird,

iManage (Document Management S/W); Macintosh, some

shorthand, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint; Docs Open,

Carpe Diem, CompareRite, Delta View, Equitrac,

RightFax, document scanning, styles formatting, word

processing skills, PCs, laptops, printers;

own/operate BlackBerry, netbook, laptop.

Financial Services Course work completed at the Chicago Appraisal

Institute for appraising, Aug, 2006; currently

licensed in health/life insurance, formerly licensed

in Series 6 Securities (Washington State), and

formerly as a mortgage loan originator/officer

(Illinois). Formerly licensed in residential real

estate sales.

Languages Proficient in French, functional Spanish, and ASL

(American Sign Language.

EXPERIENCE - CURRENT:

Temp & Contract assignments - 7/2008 - current.

AJILON LEGAL STAFFING - 3/2010 - 4/2010;

Providing legal secretarial support to legal counsel

on temporary assignments.

HORWOOD MARCUS & BERK, CHTD.

Chicago, IL 2-2006 - 7/28/2008

Working as a floater and assist to HR. Practice areas include wealth

management, litigation, real estate, corporate, and

tax. Reason for leaving: Staff

reassignments/reductions and no permanent position

for me.

Jean Kripton Legal Staffing; Robert Half Legal

Staffing:

Temp assignments through legal staffing agencies at

various law firms in the Loop.

1-2007 - 2-2008.

New Home Professional Real Estate Staffing - working

as a sales associate with builders at various new

home construction sites.

1-2007 - 12-2008

Self-employed at home performing legal, medical,

corporate transcription. 1-2006 - 1-2007DYKEMA

GOSSETT PLLC

Chicago, IL 7-2005 - 1-2006

Legal Secretary - support a partner and one associate

on an extremely busy desk, one litigation and the

other medical malpractice; Reason for leaving: Firm

relocated to a further distance away.

CASSIDY, SCHADE & GLOOR, LLP

Chicago, IL 8-05-04 - 7-2005

Legal Secretary - supporting Partners and Associates

in a fast-paced litigation medical malpractice

environment, for both litigation and coverage issues.

Duties include on-going correspondence, document

drafting and edits, timely court filing of documents,

time entry, client contact, tape transcription,

HIPPAs, counterclaims, subpoenas, notices of filing,

motions, etc. Reason for leaving: Intention was to

relocate to the West Coast w/husband.

KCA FINANCIAL SERVICES

Geneva, IL 4-2004 - 7-2004

Job Title: Bill Collection Specialist; Specific job

assignment: In charge of approximately 15,000

accounts in the U.S., including Verizon land phone

lines, medical and retail accounts. Duties include

daily monitoring, updating of account status,

verification of compliance procedures and data, daily

interface with debtors and clients, and arriving at

solutions of reconciling their accounts and payment

of debts to clear their credit records in a timely

manner. Reason for leaving: this was only a

temporary situation until I re-entered the legal

field.

TEMPORARY: CHAPMAN and CUTLER, LLP

Chicago, IL 12/2003 to 2-27-2004

Filled in for the vacation/holiday/medical/sick leave

interim, as a floater legal secretary in all practice

areas. Reason for leaving: Long-term temp assignment

only.

PERMANENT: ALTHEIMER & GRAY

Chicago, IL 7-2001- 4/2003

Worked as a word processing/floater night secretary

assisting attorneys in all practice areas (tax

litigation, corporate, real estate, banking); duties

included searching, retrieving, editing, transcribing

documents and correspondence; Notary Public; time

entry and billing; processing new client/matter

paperwork; CompareRite, Delta View, Equitrac,

RightFax, document scanning, styles formatting, word

processing skills. Reason for leaving: Law firm

came to a close.

LATHAM & WATKINS

Chicago, IL 9/1999 - 11/2000

Worked as a floater secretary assisting attorneys in

all practice areas - tax, litigation, corporate, real

estate, banking; duties included searching,

retrieving, editing, transcribing documents and

correspondence; time entry and billing. Contributing

columnist to Chicago L&W office newsletter. Obtain

flight, hotel and dinner reservations. Reason for

leaving: I attended web development school nights

and weekends anticipating a career change when the

tech market bottomed out as I finished the course

program.

NEAL, GERBER & EISENBERG

Chicago, IL 1/1999 - 9/1999

Worked as a floater secretary assisting attorneys in

all practice areas (tax, litigation, corporate, real

estate, divorce, estate planning, banking,. Duties

included searching, retrieving, editing, transcribing

documents and correspondence; obtained flight, hotel

and dinner reservations; also did work in word

processing. Reason for leaving: Wanted more of a

challenge and a permanent assignment vs. a floating

assignment.

D'ANCONA & PFLAUM

Chicago, IL 5/1997 - 1/1999

Worked for a tax attorney, retrieving tax information

daily from the web; edited and transcribed documents

for correspondence; Notary Public; time entry and

billing; processing new client/ matter paperwork;

completed of a court reporting program; assisted

other attorneys as time permitted. Supported 2

paralegals as well. Obtained flight, hotel and

dinner reservations. Reason for leaving: Seeking

more growth, challenge and compensation.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE:

Active as an Interpretive Volunteer at the Adler

Planetarium & Astronomy Museum; Licensed HAM

Radio Operator;

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