Sales Legal Secretary

YVETTE ALLEN-JANIS

**-** ** ******, *** #*K, Sunnyside, NY 11104. 646-***-****.

Home Email: ********@*****.***

CAREER SUMMARY: To continue my legal, executive/administrative, secretarial/assistant career with a stable and challenging organization.

EXPERIENCE:

ALTERMAN & BOOP LLP, New York, NY

Legal Secretary to Daniel L. Alterman & Arlene F. Boop, Esqs., Partners/Owners July 2005 – June 30, 2014

Type and/or create all legal documents such as pleadings: notices of appearance, summons & complaint, opposition replies; motions (including lengthy memorandums of law, TOC/TOA) and order to show causes with extensive arrangement of exhibits; discovery (demands and responses); subpoenas (duces tecum, non-judicial, ad testificandum), affidavits, verifications, and trial prep documents. Including real estate documents – e.g. cooperative/condominium/residential-commercial contracts of sale, riders, NYC and NYS Transfer Tax Return documents, ACRIS, closing statements. Landlord-Tenant notices, agreements, and buyout documents. Employment demand letters and settlement agreements. Estate documents including wills, living wills, and healthcare proxies. All documents pertaining to actions in Supreme/Appellate/Civil courts as well as United States Southern and Eastern District courts. Daily correspondence (by email, facsimile, postal, courier, etc.).

LAW OFFICE OF JACK L. GLASSER, Jamaica, NY July 2002 – July 2005

Legal Secretary to Jack L. Glasser, Esq.

Typed all motions, affirmations, affidavits, notices of petitions, petitions, certifications, OSCs, briefs (with TOC/TOA), general releases, contracts of sale, leases, riders, deeds, last will and testament applications, name change applications, adoption forms, real estate documentation (i.e. ACRIS forms, TP584s, etc.), including letters and memorandums by Dictaphone and dictation (in person and over the telephone), utilizing WordPerfect 11. Maintained files, and calendar utilizing PC Laws as well as PACER and ECB websites for U.S. Bankruptcy matters.

LOEWS CORPORATION & LOEWS HOTELS, New York, NY

Executive & Administrative Assistant and Secretary May 1997 – June 2001

Worked for three (3) Vice Presidents in three different departments: (1) Candace Leeds, Vice President of Public Relations for Loews Corporation and Preston Robert Tisch. Maintained two databases (Act 2&3) for all clients exclusively for Mr. Tisch (business/real estate/political/entertainment) as well as typing statements, speeches and press releases, troubleshooting for major events as well as letters, memos, screening phones. Ms. Leeds has since retired; (2) Stuart Opotowsky, Vice President of Tax Department for Loews Corporation. Transcribed all correspondence from Dictaphone (letters, memos, speeches) as well as revising Excel spreadsheets for 4 tax accountants as well as their correspondence. Mr. Opotowsky, a CPA and Tax Attorney for the firm has since retired; (3) Brian Jones, Vice President, National Sales Offices for Loews Hotels. Maintained databases for all five (5) regional sales offices as well as each offices monthly sales reports, expense reports, sales campaigns and hotel showcases, highlights and events. Heavy phones, much interaction between each sales office (Chicago, DC/Maryland, Santa Monica, CA, Toronto and NYC) directors and their staff. Mr. Jones reported directly to Jonathan Tisch and is no longer with Loews Hotels.

KAUFMAN, MALCHMAN, KIRBY & SQUIRE, New York, NY

Legal Secretary August 1995 – June 1996

Was part of the secretarial pool which consisted of four (4) legal secretaries – working for 3 associate attorneys as well as back-up to the senior secretaries for the partners. Typed all motions and pleadings with regards to the complex litigation (which the firm specialized in securities and consumer class action cases) from dictated notes, and Dictaphone machines.

NATIONWIDE REPORTING, INC., New York, NY

Secretary to Owners August 1990 – August 1995

Typed all contract, letters and memos for the President and Vice President [the owners of the company] as well as typed all contracts and correspondence for 8 engineers. Also, transcribed several transcripts for their City contracted clients such as National Labor Relations Board, NYC Loft Board and the Board of Education [Regions: Newark, Brooklyn, and Manhattan] in a 24 hour turnaround time. Nationwide Reporting, Inc. had three subdivisions which were d/b/a Simultaneous Wireless Interpretations, Inc. and Cassette Duplication Co.

SKILLS:

Microsoft Office 2010 [Word, Outlook [Email/Calendar Entry], Excel, and PowerPoint], Document Management System [DMS], Prolaw Time Management, L&T System software, WordPerfectX6, Lotus Notes, Netscape, AOL, Database Systems: Act 2&3, Gregg stenography w/FLH, Dictaphone voice processors [for transcription purposes]. Hewlett Packard Laser Jet printers, Okidata and Brothers printers, typewriters and various fax machines.

EDUCATION:

Drake Business School. 1982-1984, Legal and Medical Secretarial Studies. Graduated, Certificate.

Baruch College The City of New York [CUNY]. 1980-1982, Criminal Justice, major. Political Science, minor.

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