Senior Legal Proofreader

Location:

Salary:

50 - 60000

Posted:

April 02, 2014

KENNETH G. MICALLEF

EXPERIENCE:

Record Press Appellate Printer New York City September 2013 to Present

Proofreader

*Proofreading briefs, records, TOAs, appendices for state and federal court filings

The Froebe Group 2011 to 2012

Proofreader

*Proofreading grammar, punctuation, and style for Aspen Publisher’s textbooks

Command Printers (short-term proofreading assignment) 2010

Cravath, Swaine & Moore (short-term proofreading assignment)

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy New York City 1999-2009

Legal Assistant 1999-2009/Second Shift Co-coordinator 1999-2005

*Practice support – Corporate, Finance, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Tax, Trust & Estates

*Proofreading (revisions, full record, scan & clean, book read, black/red lining, TOA, TOC)

*Document cross-reference and definition checks, cite-check, Bluebooking

*Shepardizing case cites via LEXIS/NEXIS; LEXIS/NEXIS and Westlaw research

*Marking Table of Authorities

*Closing support: closing sets, word processing, coordination with other support depts.

*JFS, Ipro and Lotus Notes database documentation and electronic discovery

*Case pulls and document collation from electronic court dockets; binder & index creation

*(1999-2005) Co-coordinating second shift workload for staff of eight: liaison with attorneys, word

processing, duplicating, Fed Ex, reception and general support staff

*Preparing documents for discovery, UCC, trial, hearings, depositions, and client meetings

Metroproof, Inc. New York City 1995-1998

Freelance proofreader

*Temporary legal proofreading on a long term basis (“perma-temp”) at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy;

temporary positions at White & Case; Chadbourne & Parke; Shearman & Sterling; Sullivan & Cromwell;

Davis Polk & Wardwell; Rogers & Wells; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher;

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

*Black/red lining, book-read, revisions & full record proofreading

*Advertising proofreading

Computer Skills:

Programs: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook Express, Westlaw, LEXIS/NEXIS, JFS/Lotus Notes, Real Legal

LiveNote, Quark, Photoshop

Education:

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

Major: Advertising Design