Legal Secretary w/experience in litigation, corporate, bankruptcy, etc
Resume:
JOAN ROBLES
Email: ******.******@*****.***
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/joan-robles-33041013 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 1999 – 1/2016
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
One of three secretaries in a Secretarial Center, providing assistance to up to 20 attorneys, 3 paralegals, and the firm’s Business Development Manager. My primaries consisted of two senior corporate attorneys, one senior tax attorney, two litigation paralegals, and one corporate paralegal. Duties included filings with the SEC, preparation and revision of voluminous corporate documents, filings in state, federal and bankruptcy courts (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties), e-filings, preparation of discovery documents and various pleadings, including under seal filings. I prepared letters, memoranda, daily timesheets, expense reports, among other things. I have extensive experience in client billing, maintained attorneys’ files, calendared events and court dates, made travel arrangements, and answered phones. I worked for a senior partner who is now the senior advisor to Senator Robert Hertzberg. I maintained his calendar, arranged meetings, had telephonic and email interaction with government officials, etc. For my first 10 years at Latham, I worked for a senior bankruptcy partner, who relied on me to prepare fee applications, proofs of claim, and all bankruptcy-related documents. This firm is a full service practice, including sophisticated transactional and litigation practices, as well as industry teams. ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP 1998 – 1999
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
Secretary to three associates who worked in the fields of civil litigation, construction defect and insurance defense. Duties included filings in all courts (state, federal, municipal, and branch courts in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties), preparation of subpoenas for medical and business records, preparation of discovery documents, and transcription from tapes. Typed all pleadings, correspondence, memoranda, timesheets, mass mailings, maintained attorneys’ files, and answered phones. This firm specializes primarily in insurance defense, construction defect, and civil and blue collar litigation. BARBOSA GARCIA LLP (firm dissolved) 1995 – 1998
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
Secretary to the founding and managing partner, the City Attorney of Montebello, and a senior corporate associate. Duties included telephonic interaction with clients, typing of pleadings
(litigation), correspondence and memoranda, ordinances (municipal law), creating and maintaining binders for numerous Los Angeles Unified School District Implementation Plans and correspondence, preparing trial binders, timesheets, transcription from tapes, and filings in various courts. This firm specialized in the representation of public entities, including civil litigation, municipal, transactional, real estate, environmental, and corporate law. CORINBLIT & SELTZER (firm dissolved) 1989 – 1995
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
Secretary to the founding partner, senior partner, and senior associate. Duties included typing legal documents and pleadings for filing in federal, state, and bankruptcy courts, Court of Appeal – 2nd Appellate District, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; and preparation of discovery documents. I worked on arbitration matters, prepared proofs of service, mass mailings, created and maintained pleading files, had constant telephonic contact with clients (class action suits) and answered phones. This firm specialized in complex litigation, class actions, securities and fraud (for plaintiffs). JONES DAY LLP
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
Secretary to two senior litigation attorneys, one patent attorney, and a litigation and real estate paralegal. Duties included typing various pleadings, all legal documents, proofs of service, various real estate documents, transcription from tapes, timesheets, expense reports, correspondence, memoranda, court filings in all courts, answered phones, prepared Closing Binders, prepared pleading clips, word processing, and made travel arrangements. This firm specializes in transactional, litigation, regulatory, and tax matters. THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
LEGAL SECRETARY
Performed a wide variety of legal work for trial attorneys and investigators, including transcription from tapes, word processing, answering phones (dealing with complaining witnesses and attorneys), typing all legal documents, pleadings and correspondence, proofs of service, and court filings with the State Bar Court. Prepared subpoenas for court files, witnesses for trial, financial reports, and trust accounts.
SKILLS & PROGRAMS
Microsoft Word 7.0 and 2010; Microsoft Outlook; WordPerfect 6.0 and 5.1; Interwoven DeskSite; Proforma; Lexis/Nexis; PACER; Soft Solutions; Windows; Excel; PowerPoint; Adobe Acrobat X Pro; DeltaView; CompareRite; Litera Change-Pro; Chrome River (expenses and invoices); Carpem Diem and InTapp Time (timesheet programs); Legal Solutions Plus; Westlaw; InterAction; Cisco Telephone System REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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