Legal Secretary Service
Resume:
ESTHER C. SELTZER
BROOKLYN, NY 11209
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
November 2009-March 2013 SMITH MAZURE DIRECTOR WILKINS YOUNG
& YAGERMAN, P.C.
New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Work for one senior partner and associate-
Insurance Defense Law
Duties performed: draft correspondence,
pleadings, budgets; EBT and status reports
to clients and carriers; heavy digital tape
transcription; arranged for service pleadings
with Court; served opposing counsel; faxing;
copying; scanning; filing; telephone inter-
action with clients and opposing counsel;
took on and steadily performed various
Overflow Work Assignments.
April 2009 - August 2009 DEVEREAUX BAUMGARTEN
(Temp Position) New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Worked for one partner and two associates -
Insurance Defense Law
Duties performed: draft correspondence,
pleadings; voluminous monthly reports to
client;
arranged for service of pleadings with
Court(s);
served opposing counsel; heavy dictaphone
usage;
faxing; copying; scanning; filing; heavy
telephone interaction with client and opposing
counsel.
June 1998 - March 2009 COWAN, LIEBOWITZ & LATMAN, P.C.
New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Work for three partners and an associate -
Intellectual Property Law - Trademark,
Copyright, and Litigation
Duties performed: draft correspondence,
memoranda, and various pleadings for filing
with Courts and U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office;
provide service of papers to opposing counsel;
maintain legal pleadings for cases; assemble
and distribute agreements with exhibits to
client(s); input and finalized quarterly New
York Law Journal Copyright column for
publication; draft lectures, year-end reports
to clients, and business development-related
presentations to prospective clients;
dictaphone usage; billing work; review/sort
mail; faxing; dictation; filing; photocopying;
scanning and emailing documents; handling
travel, and other, reservations for attorneys.
April 1993 - May 1998 KENYON & KENYON, New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
(November 1994-May 1998)
Work for senior partner - Intellectual
Property
Law - Patent Infringement
Duties performed: drafted extensive pleadings
for filing with Courts; dictation/transcription
of memoranda and correspondence; faxing;
filing;
daily client contact; heavy telephone work;
intensive billing work ($1 million monthly);
dictaphone usage; photocopying; notarize
documents; review and sort mail; work re
inputting and tabulating annual partner
percentages; traveled to Pennsylvania
and Connecticut, respectively, to assist
trial-team in preparing for and throughout
duration of Court trials on patent infringement
cases.
KENYON & KENYON, New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
(April 1993-November 1994)
Worked for senior partner and associate -
Intellectual Property Law
Duties performed: drafted and prepared various
documents for filing with the U.S. Patent &
Trademark Office; heavy dictaphone usage in
connection with the output of letters,
memoranda, briefs, and patent prosecution-
related documents;
faxing; filing; photocopying; telephone
interaction with clients; dictation; billing;
notarized documents; volunteered as a Unit
Leader and was responsible for collecting
overflow work from attorneys and delegating
it to secretaries firm-wide.
October 89 - March 93 SHEA & GOULD, New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Worked for two associates - Pension & Tax
(January 1992-March 1993)
Duties performed: extensive output of
correspondence and memoranda; filing;
dictation sessions; billing; client contact;
faxing; inputting documents for filing with
the Internal Revenue Service.
Worked for a tax certiorari partner and
assisted three tax certiorari paralegals
(October 1989-December 1991)
Duties performed: lengthy dictation
sessions; arranged meetings; input large
statistical charts; maintained a steady
record of and continuously corresponded
with clients; filing; faxing; photocopying
heavy telephone contact with clients; sort
and review mail; and went to New York City
Tax Commission and assisted the Tax
Certiorari Department in obtaining assess-
ment figures on over 600 various properties.
June 86 - April 89 KRAMER, LEVIN, NESSEN, KAMIN & FRANKEL
New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Worked for two associates-Tax and
Litigation.
Duties performed: extensive document
production; heavy dictation, including
tax memoranda and various pleadings
documents; dictaphone usage; faxing;
filing; client contact; photocopying;
and, worked on special assignments in
the Corporate Department, partaking in
closings, and notarizing documents.
June 85 - September 85 LEBOEUF, LAMB, LEIBY & MACRAE
New York, NY
LEGAL SECRETARY
Summer internship. Worked as a floater
in various departments within this
large law firm.
EDUCATION June, 1986 - Graduate A.A.S. Degree
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn,
NY. [Achieved Dean's List twice].
SKILLS Typing: 85+ w.p.m.
Shorthand: 80 w.p.m. - Gregg
Microsoft Word 2003 & 2007: PC Docs
& Windows XP - Hummingbird, File Site
ProLaw and Client Profiles
Microsoft Outlook 2002 & 2007
WordPerfect 5.1/6.1/8.0 - SoftSolutions
Distributed Billing System - Microsoft
Access 2.0-related software; TABS, Juris
& Juris Suite and TimeSlips Time-Entry
Programs; E-Copy Scanning System; basic
knowledge of Excel, Amicus, Quickbooks
and Spanish language.
REFERENCES Available upon request.
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