Carla R. Austin
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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