Executive Assistant Legal

Kathleen N. Smout

Cell Phone: 616-***-**** *********@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Provided executive level support to Lead Partner and multiple attorneys in large, national law firm.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with extensive experience interacting with legal and business professionals.

Exceptional organizational skills including the elimination of inefficiencies that slow work flow.

Proficient in Microsoft Office – Outlook, Excel, Word, Publisher and Power Point.

Administrative and Organizational Skills

Managed daily calendar and large docket for up to six attorneys who attended various courts throughout the state of Ohio; provided pertinent case file documents to each attorney daily.

Legal writing.

Scheduled extensive travel, appointments and meetings.

Arranged transportation, hospitality and technical support for meetings and depositions.

Planned holiday parties, retreats and large events.

Planned Board and Staff meetings, prepared agendas and processed meeting minutes.

Maintained document filing retention and storage system with high regard for confidentiality, organization and timely retrieval of documents.

Prepared purchase requests for supplies and equipment.

Leadership Skills

Generated and implemented annual budgets for product inventories and labor costs.

Managed interview process for potential employees and completed employee performance evaluations.

Provided leadership to teams totaling 153 employees and was the direct report of three supervisors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Executive Assistant 9/2018 - Present

Muskingum University

Executive Assistant to the President

Commercial Insurance Sales Agent 03/2016 - 05/2017

Superior Insurance Agency

Commercial Sales Agent licensed in North Dakota and Ohio.

Legal Assistant 04/2013 – 03/2016

Schweigert, Klemin & McBride PC

Legal Assistant to attorneys in high-volume Personal Injury firm.

Commercial Insurance Sales Agent 01/2012 – 04/2013

Albertson-Lawrence Agency, Inc.

Commercial Sales Agent licensed to 12 independent companies. Wrote $250,000 in new business in less than two years and personally serviced all written business.

Legal Assistant 04-2007 – 01/2012

Javitch, Block & Rathbone, LLP

Provided support to attorneys in Insurance Subrogation practice through preparation of discovery and drafting and typing litigation documents.

Area Supervisor 02/1993 – 04/2005

The Longaberger Company

Twelve years of leadership culminating in successfully facilitating the principles of Lean 5S Management in a plant wide initiative to condense a two-week production timeline to a four-hour timeline

EDUCATION

Associates in Business with a Paralegal Certification 2009

Zane State College

LICENSES AND AFFILIATIONS

North Dakota Property and Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance and Annuity License

Ohio Non-residential Property and Casualty Insurance License

Certified Paralegal

Secretary for chapter of Master Networks

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