Assistant Legal

Valerie Marshall

***** ***** ***** **., *****. Louis MO 63123

Home: 314-***-**** Cell: 314-***-**** *************@*****.***

Summary

Enthusiastic Legal Assistant skilled in many areas of law, ranging from Legal Collections for consumer debt replevins garnishments, settlements, Foreclosure ETC. with more than 23 years in legal administrative assistance. As well as billing experience

Highlights

Order and request files

Manage large case loads

Westlaw and LexisNexis

maintain over 70 electronic websites for over 95

Case management

different clients (Insurance Companies ETC.

• Database management

Organized Able to perform well under pressure and time constraints

Accomplishments

Selected by partners to review office procedures and head implementation of new protocol. Completed American Institute of Banking Courses.

Attended Court with Attorneys to work out consent judgments, payment arrangements or if need be setting files for trial.

Experience

Electronic Billing Specialist

March 2013 to 6/2016

Evans &; Dixon LLC Saint Louis, MO

Set up and maintained client accounts for electronic billing.

Experienced in over 70 electronic databases. Interface with Attorney’s, Paralegals, IT departments for both Evans&

Dixon and clients outside of Evans &Dixon. I appealed any and all cuts made to the Attorney’s invoices as our Electronic Clients account for over 80% of the firm’s revenue. I have also been cross trained on Accounts Payable as well as receivable, I have also been cross trained in billing time for both Attorneys and paralegals as needed.

Education

Graduated with honors Academic Achievement Award. Continuing Education in American Institute of Banking.

High School Diploma : Basic, 1987

Bishop Du Bourg Saint Louis, MO, USA

Professional Experience

Legal Assistant Albertelli Law

06/016 to 8/4/2016

I was contacted by this previous Florida employer offering me a remote position to work from home taking care of the Eviction process by making sure all invoices were correct before electronically billing them. One successfully I updated all electronic systems, I also aided in any other administrative duties that were in need of catching up such as creating Excel spreadsheets to be worked for clients that were delinquent in payment ETC. This employment ended because the firm expanded and opened another firm in North Carolina and wanted me to move and head up billing there. I could not relocate.

Work History

Marcadis & Associates Tampa, FL

Optimized all legal avenues to provide our client's with recovery of losses by use of all legal avenues I was in charge of the owners personal portfolio FROM June2006 to March 2009

Litigation Administrator Kramer & Frank St Louis, MO

Employment History

Albertelli Law Tampa Florida

From 3/2013 to 3-2016

Two of the partners from the previous firm (Marcadis & Assoc) were leaving the firm to go to Albertelli and asked to join the where they would now be partners (Robert Bowen Esq. and Nathan Gryglewicz) I left Marcadis for a much greater opportunity beginning in the Mediation Department where I collected all financial making sure they were complete for possible Loan modifications, I would coordinate the mediations, hire the mediator schedule the mediation center, From there I was promoted to our largest client Wells Fargo to work foreclosure proceedings from beginning to end always updating the client and preparing legal documents and assisting the attorneys as needed.

Litigation Administrator Kramer & Frank St Louis, MO

From 1999 to June 2006

Legal Collection Administrator for I was responsible for a large portfolio of different retail clients for collecting debt usually over 120 days past due by using any and all legal measures from settlements to going to court filing suit, I accompanies our attorney on large dockets to court to try to obtain consent judgment’s,settlement’s and or set for trial as needed, Once judgment was cured I would use all legal measures to collect, garnishments, replevins ETC. When I left this company it was because my husband’s job required us to relocate to Florida.

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