Real Estate Legal Secretary

LIZABETH A. HUGGINS

**** ******** *********, ***. ***, Dallas, Texas 75240

214-***-**** – E-Mail: ************@*****.***

Employment History:

**/**** – Present Freelance Legal Secretary (Contract) for law firms specializing in civil litigation

cases, labor and employment law, corporate, intellectual property, and transactional

law.

03/2005 – 11/2011 Gillespie, Rozen & Watsky, P.C. – Law Firm

Legal Assistant to a senior partner, partner, and associate.

Prepared and revised various pleadings, discovery, settlement agreements, and

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other legal documents for labor and employment law attorneys in civil litigation.

• Prepared documents for the EEOC and the Texas Workforce Commission.

• Reviewed various legal documents with attorneys and clients for accuracy and

completeness.

• Transcribed and prepared correspondence.

• Assisted scheduling of depositions and other important events on behalf of

attorneys.

• Summarized depositions for attorneys.

04/2004 – 03/2005 Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Schulze & Aldridge, P.C. - Law Firm

Legal Secretary to a partner and associate.

Prepared and revised various pleadings, settlement agreements, employment

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contracts, and other legal documents for a litigation attorney.

• Reviewed various legal documents for accuracy and completeness.

• Transcribed and prepared correspondence.

• Prepared and submitted expense reports on behalf of attorney.

07/2001 – 03/2004 Freelance Legal Secretary (Contract) for various law firms in litigation, corporate,

and transactional law.

11/1999 – 06/2001 Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. – Law Firm

Legal Secretary. Followed my attorney from Clements, Allen to Glast, Phillips.

Clements, Allen, Fishman, Woods & Walsh – Law Firm

Legal Secretary to two partners.

Prepared and revised various pleadings, briefs, settlement agreements, deeds,

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contracts, leases, loan documents and other legal documents for litigation,

transactional law and real estate attorneys.

• Reviewed various legal documents with attorneys and clients for accuracy and

completeness.

• Transcribed and prepared correspondence for real estate attorneys.

• Prepared and submitted time reports and expense reports on behalf of attorneys.

• Assisted scheduling of trial dates, depositions and other important events on behalf

of attorneys in litigation department.

Previous Employment with Jones Day:

Worked with corporate, real estate, litigation (including Intellectual Property) attorneys for close to five years.

Technical Skills: MSWord, WordPerfect, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Outlook, TABS, Transcription,

ECF filings.

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