Carla R. Austin

acde68@r.postjobfree.com

973-***-****

Highlights

Court rules and procedures

Organized and efficient

Excellent client interaction skills

Excellent telephone skills

Able to quickly learn new procedures

Team Player

Works well under pressure

Electronic/Internet dictation transcriber

MS Word

Outlook

Excel

Practice Master

Adobe

Amicus

ECM Filings - NY & NJ

Lexis/Nexis

Nitro - Bates Stamping Database

Work Experience:

10-2013 - 01-2014 Avion Systems, Inc.

Client: MetLife, Morristown, NJ - Contractor

Alpharetta, GA Corporate Legal

Compliance Dept.

07-2012 - 11-2012 Braff Harris & Sukoneck

Legal Secretary - Contractor

Livingston, NJ

2009-2010 Paladin Consultants Client: T-

Mobile, Parsippany, NJ

Agency - Dallas, TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

RELATIONS - Contractor

2007-2009 McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen & Carvelli, PC

Administrative/Legal Assistant

Florham Park, NJ

Provided personal support to Senior Founding Partner.

Verified Complaints/Complaints, collection matters for

unpaid fees, judgments of default, etc., Notice of Motions;

electronic filings in USDC-NJ; UDSC-NY, EDNY, phones, greet

clients, schedule conferences, transcribe dictation,

organize files, etc.

2006-2007 Brach Eichler - f/k/a

Administrative/Legal Assistant

WolfBlock Brach Eichler

Roseland, NJ

Health and Hospital Law/Elder Care Law: Provided personal

support to Senior Founding Partner. Purchase and sale of

Nursing Homes and Elder Care Facilities. Provide personal

support, i.e.: Monitor personal monthly bills, phones,

deposit payroll, etc. Support Second Year Associate:

Duties includes: Filing Guardianships assigned by various

hospital clients. Prepare OTSC, Verified Complaints,

Orders of Judgment, Certifications of treating physicians.

Certifications of Incapacitation, treatment, etc., for the

alleged incapacitated individual: physical and/or mental

state[s], motions, etc.

2005-2006 Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP Legal

Assistant

Morristown, NJ

Elder Law/Fiduciary Litigation: Provide support to

partner who practices fiduciary litigation. Prepare OTSC,

Verified Complaints, Judgments, treating physicians'

certification of incapacitation for the alleged

incapacitated individual[s], physical and/or mental,

motions, etc. Also provide support to two associates

practicing defense litigation, personal injury, slip and

falls, construction, etc.

2003-2005 Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, LLC Legal

Assistant

Morristown, NJ

Provide support to Mass Tort Diet Drug Litigation Team. Prepare

and organize various medical reports, cardiology reports,

EKG reports, etc.; to be inserted into binders and indexed;

prepare correspondence forwarding same to experts for

review in preparation for their reports and/or depositions;

prepare correspondence to medical providers, hospitals,

clinics, etc., requesting medical records; file motions;

etc.

1989-2002 McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter f/k/a Legal

Assistant

McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney, LLP

Morristown, NJ

Provide support to Equity Partners, Senior Partners and

Senior Associates. Practice areas: Environmental Litigation, Product

Liability Defense Litigation, and Insurance Defense

Litigation. Electronic filing of documents with NY State Courts. NJ

Courts: Federal Courts, Law Division, Chancery Division,

Appellate Division, Supreme Court: Notices of Appeal, Affidavits,

Memoranda of Law, Petitions for Certification, Motions,

Judgments, etc. NY and NJ Construction Liens, NY Pleadings. Prepare

various drafts for attorney(s), motions, stipulations,

status letters, subpoenas, assist in document productions. Heavy

Dictaphone, telephones, filing, conference calls, set up

luncheon meetings, travel arrangements, depositions, arbitrations,

mediations. Assist other secretaries with legal procedures,

formatting of complicated/difficult documents, Appellate and Supreme

courts' pleadings, including but not limited to proper

formatting, filing procedures, etc.

Education: High School Graduate - East Orange H.S.

First School of Secretarial & Paralegal Studies, East

Orange, NJ

County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ - 27 Credits

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