Administrative Assistant Legal Secretary Transcriber
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JUDITH E. FISCHER-PERSSON
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
************@*****.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
LEGAL SECRETARY/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Nason Yeager Gerson White & Lioce, PA, Boca Raton, July 2012-May 2018
Provided legal and administrative support to three shareholders, including the Managing Shareholder of the Boca Office, and
one associate in the areas of litigation, environmental and land use, local government, estate planning and international tax;
communicated with clients; composed correspondence and emails; coordinated calendars and scheduled conference calls and
meetings; drafted notices; E-filed pleadings in District, State, and Appeals Courts as well as the Florida Division of
Administrative Hearings and the South Florida Water Management District; utilized ProLaw software to enter attorneys’ time;
processed mail; Provided support to three shareholders in the Palm Beach Gardens office, including the President/Managing
Shareholder of the Association, in the areas of corporate, tax/estate planning, litigation and family law.
DIGITAL COURT REPORTER/TRANSCRIBER/SCOPIST
15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, West Palm Beach 2010-2011
Utilized For The Record software to digitally record the audio proceedings of criminal court calendars and trials while creating
detailed log notes of same; Transcribed same; Utilized Case CATalyst v12 software to proofread/scope stenographic notes.
Heritage Reporting Corporation, 2008-2010
Digitally recorded and transcribed trials and proceedings in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Health
and Human Services, and the International trade Commission which oftentimes included heavy medical and technical
terminology.
TRANSCRIBER FOR THE HARD OF HEARING
University of Akron, Office of Accessibility, Akron, Ohio, 2007–2008
Attended class lectures alongside hearing impaired students and transcribed same utilizing real-time software.
PRIOR LEGAL SECRETARY EXPERIENCE
Weston Hurd, LLP, Cleveland, Ohio 1998 – 2007
Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, OH 1981 - 1992
Provided legal secretarial support corporate and insurance litigation defense; composed correspondence; drafted answers,
notices, discovery requests, counterclaims, and affidavits; prepared court filings and service copies; E-filed pleadings with the
Court; reviewed, organized, and indexed discovery documents; kept client files; communicated with clients, opposing counsel,
arbitrators, doctors, government agencies and court administrators; scheduled depositions and meetings; made travel
arrangements; Utilized e-mail and various time/data entry systems; processed mail.
University of Miami School of Law, Miami, FL 1994-95 (Word processing)
EDUCATION
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio 2004–2006 Cum Laude graduate, Associates of Liberal Arts in December
2006 Cumulative 3.5 GPA
The Academy of Court Reporting, Cleveland, Ohio 1991-1993 Trained as a stenographic reporter and transcriber of real-
time dictation.
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