Office Legal Secretary

LYDIA E. BERDIEL

*** ******* ***., ***. ***., Jersey City, New Jersey 07305 Cell Phone: 973-***-****

*********@***.***

SUMMARY:

Hands-on Legal Secretary who thrives in a professional business environment with extensive legal office, administration, client interface, and litigation document development experiences.

SKILLS:

Computer Literate in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel as well as Google Calendar, Time Matters, Timeslips, Phillips 725 Dictation System and Sony Microcassette Transcriber M-2000. I am also fluent in English and Spanish and I type 55 wpm.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

The Law Office of Ansetti & Associates, LLC -- Jersey City, NJ April 2015 to June 2016

Administrative Assistance/Legal Secretary

●Supported an office with three (3) attorneys and one (1) office manager

●Maintained and managed in completing the application for modification of mortgage with the client & perspective lender’s

●Prepare, completed and filed the litigation documents for Expungements, Name Change and Landlord/Tenant matters with the New Jersey Superior Court

●Monthly attorney advertisement delimiting the information to Excel from a CD then mail merging them

●Monthly payments and/or collections from the non-payers

●Interpret in Spanish as well as typing any all correspondence

Thomas J. Koehl, Esq./Public Defender -- Secaucus, NJ June 2013 to April 2015

Legal Secretary

●Assisted in completing the documents pertaining to any Real Estate sales or purchases

●Assisted in preparing all litigation documents for worker's compensation, personal injury, municipal court hearing and occasionally bankruptcy, wills and estate

●Used the dictation systems "Sony Microcassette Transcriber M-2000"

●Interpret in Spanish as well as typing any and all correspondence

●Scheduled appointments as well as performing some office duties

Michael A. Cerone, Jr. Esq. -- Clifton, NJ July 2009 to December 2011

Secretary/Legal Secretary

●Supported in preparing any real estate documents either residential or commercial

●Helped out with any litigation documents for personal injury cases and at times divorce matters

●Typed up the monthly minutes for the Clifton Public Library Board Meeting

●Used the dictation systems " Phillips 725 Dictation System "

●Monthly billing using timeslips

●From time to time I would Interpret in Spanish and my regular duties in the office

Jeffrey M. Bloom, Esq. -- West New York, NJ July 2008 to January 2009

Receptionist/ Secretary

●Worked solely with reaching out to the PIP carrier, perspective providers and/or the liability carrier requesting information regarding personal injury matters and the worker's compensation cases

●Daily filing, scheduling appointments, scanning day-to-day mail along with the medical documents using Adobe

LYDIA E. BERDIEL

194 Neptune Ave., 1st. Flr., Jersey City, New Jersey 07305 Cell Phone: 973-***-****

*********@***.***

Express Personnel Service -- Fairfield, NJ November 2006 to June 2008

Secretary

●L. Scott Brokoben, PA --- prepare all the legal documentations for new clients, interpret in Spanish and the everyday office duties

●North Jersey Legal Aid Services --- screening potential clients and providing them with information about the services they provide and scheduled their appointments.

●Public Defender & Prosecutors Office --- supported in preparing the Notice of Appeal, Briefs with Appendix and Transcripts for the Supreme Court of New Jersey

EDUCATION

Eastside High School -- Paterson, New Jersey

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