Real Estate Assistant
Resume:
Dawn Weber
Email: *********@********.***
Address: ***** ***** ******** ******
City: Chicago
State: IL
Zip: 60655
Country: USA
Phone: 773-***-****
Skill Level: Senior
Salary Range: 57
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
DAWN M. WEBER
11423 S. ARTESIAN AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60655
CELL PHONE #: 773-***-****
E-Mail: *********@********.***
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Typing speed 70-75 wpm; MS Word; WordPerfect (DOS and Windows); WorkSite, I-Manage; SoftSolutions; DOCS Open; Access; GroupWise; Outlook; Pegasus; Excel; PowerPoint; Visio; Rightfax; Lexis/Nexis Comparite; Dictaphone; Shorthand; Summation; Concordance; CaseMap; Federal Northern and Southern District E-Filing in Illinois and Southern District E-filing in Indiana; Federal, Supreme and Appellate Courts in Illinois and other states, including Indiana, California, New York, and North Dakota; State of Illinois and Indiana filings; USPTO filings; Illinois Labor Relations Board filings; Notary Public, CMS; Elite; Westlaw; Juris, AccessPlus; EZdec; Timeslips; TABS, HQ database; and DDI for Windows Billing System.
EXPERIENCE:
BRYCE DOWNEY LENKOV LLC
7/2008-9/2012
Legal Assistant promoted to Paralegal for Managing Partner
Provided assistance to the managing partner and equity members in the areas of labor and employment law, construction, commercial litigation, real estate transaction, complex commercial loan/closing documents, including mortgages, assignments, promissory notes, guarantees; real estate, corporate transactional, intellectual property, workers compensation and personal injury both in Indiana and Illinois and on state and federal cases.
Drafts correspondence, pleadings, discovery, attorney examination forms, Deeds, Bills of Sale and other closing documents and prepares newsletters for the Employment and General Liability Department. Handle all pro hac vice documents to be sent to the Indiana courts.
Conducts legal research on Westlaw, AccessPlus and several other research engines.
Abstracts medical and employment records and deposition transcripts.
Uploads and maintains databases for Concordance and Summation to produce discovery documents for depositions and to complete trial binders.
Coordinates calendars, maintains, opens and stores files, schedules meetings and depositions, enters attorneys billable hours in Tabs.
ODELSON STERK, LTD.
7/2007-3/2008
Legal Assistant to three attorneys
Provided assistance to three attorneys in labor and employment law, commercial and civil litigation involving state, federal, supreme and appellate courts, preparation of estate planning and administration, banking lending, corporate, business operation and transactions, workers compensation, tax increment financing (TIF), economic development and municipal and school related cases.
Assisted in drafting correspondence, annual actions and reports, wills, living wills, powers of attorney for health and property, audit letter, ordinances, resolutions, pleadings and discovery documents, and entered attorneys billable hours in Timeslips.
Coordinated calendars, maintained files, scheduled meetings and depositions.
Assisted in paralegal projects, research and docketing responsibilities.
FREEBORN PETERS, LTD.
6/2006-7/2007
Floater promoted to Paralegal Assistant
Prepared numerous documents for labor and employment law, commercial and civil litigation involving state, federal, supreme and appellate courts, corporate transactional, estate planning and workers compensation.
Drafted correspondence, audit letters, pleadings and discovery documents and organized and maintained files, created merges, charts, forms and manuals using numerous types of software.
Maintained the Summation and Concordance databases of all cases, downloaded pleadings and discovery into databases and entered corporate information into HQ database for corporate companies.
Entered attorneys' billable hours in Timeslips, maintained spreadsheet of bills that have been sent out.
FAGELHABER, LLC, d/b/a THOMPSON, COBURN FAGEL HABER, LLC
2004-2006
Floater promoted to Legal Assistant three attorneys
Prepared numerous documents for labor and employment law, commercial and civil litigation involving state, federal, supreme and appellate courts, corporate, estate planning and workers compensation.
Created merges, charts, forms and manuals using a variety of software.
Maintained the Summation and Concordance databases of all cases.
Coordinated calendars, maintained files, scheduled meetings and depositions, entered attorneys' billable hours using Elite, and handled other administrative tasks as needed.
Maintained the Summation and Concordance databases of all cases.
TISHLER WALD, LTD.
10/2000 - 2/2002
Legal Assistant to Founding Partner
Prepared numerous documents for banking and lending, corporate transactional, real estate, bankruptcy, estate planning.
Assisted in drafting correspondence, annual actions and reports, audit letters and opinion letters.
Maintained monthly maintenance of annual actions, reports and ticklers.
Drafted invoices, entered attorneys' billable hours in Timeslips, maintained spreadsheet of outstanding bills.
Created merges, charts, forms and manuals using various types of software.
Coordinated calendars, maintained files, scheduled meetings, made travel arrangements among other administrative tasks.
EDUCATION:
DePaul University
Associates, Paralegal studies (1999)
DePaul University2012 - present
B.B.A., Business Administration and Management (expected 2014)
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