Legal Assistant
Resume:
-+ Virginia L. Moody
*********@*****.***
EMPLOYMENT
Legal Assistant
ROTH Staffing – Contract Positions
February, 2023 – February, 2024
McAngus Goudelock & Courie
January, 2024 – February 2024
• Working with busy professional liability defense team.
• Prepared pleadings, correspondence, and reports.
• Calendared due dates, scheduled depositions and mediations.
• E-filed with Odyssey, Peachcourt and Pacer.
• Processed invoices of vendors and expenses for attorneys.
• Populated extensive records in ProLaw.
• Provided details regarding billing and other issues to Accounting Nall & Miller, LLP
February, 2023 – July, 2023
• Working with busy medical malpractice defense team.
• Prepared pleadings, correspondence, reports, and spreadsheets.
• Calendared due dates, scheduled depositions and mediations.
• E-filed with Odyssey, Peachcourt and Pacer.
• Processed invoices of vendors.
• Extensive document management cleanup, verifying and updating court documents with iManage.
• Trial preparation, trial notebooks, trial attendance, and trial monitor. Legal Assistant
Gunn Law Group
September, 2022 – February, 2023
• Contract work with personal injury plaintiff firm.
• Prepared complaints, other pleadings and correspondence.
• Contacted clients for follow-up on medical treatment.
• Great remote work available to me during knee surgery rehab, allowing me to focus on rehab, with Attorney Landon Crider, my previous supervisor at Copeland Stair. Legal Assistant
Copeland Stair Valz & Lovell, LLP
December, 2020 – September, 2022
• Supported two partners and one associate in trucking and transportation defense litigation.
• Prepared pleadings, correspondence, reports with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Reviewed, scanned, organized, and maintained file documentation in iManage.
• Calendared all deadlines. Set up reminders. Monitored calendar.
• E-filed in local and US District Courts and properly served counsel.
• Processed invoices, prepared travel arrangements, obtained checks, made credit card purchases.
• Updated contacts. Frequent phone and email contact with clients, opposing counsel, vendors, Courts, and team.
• Scheduled depositions and mediations, securing dates, preparing Notices, obtaining the court reporter and calendaring.
Legal Assistant
Fisher Phillips LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
July 2019 – March 2020
● Worked as a temp to perm employee at this labor and employment firm. Supported one senior partner and one associate. Laid off due to COVID 19.
● Drafted legal documents, charts, and handbooks with extensive formatting including TOCs.
● Tracked changes - heavy editing, document comparison and skilled proofreading required.
● Prepared correspondence, pleadings, agreements, memorandums, file documentation, reports, and other documentation with attention to detail and accuracy.
● Copied, scanned, emailed, saved, organized, edited, updated, made calls and answered phones, prepared overnight mail, opened new files and checked conflicts.
● Made travel arrangements, set up reminders, arranged CLE Seminars, processed vendor invoices, obtained checks, made credit card purchases and reconciled bills.
● Prepared expense reports, entered time and edited proformas, calendared deadlines and events.
● Timely updated lists and contacts/Outlook. Provided web research. Legal Assistant
Paramount Staffing
Jan 2019 – July 2019
• Contract work at two firms in Atlanta and Buckhead in defense civil litigation.
• Prepared correspondence, pleadings, file documentation, and reports with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Processed vendor invoices, obtained checks, and delivered to vendors. Legal Assistant
Swift Currie McGee & Heirs, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
April 2018 – October 2018
● Served as a floater legal assistant for most of my time.
● Sat at multiple desks doing workers’ comp and defense civil litigation.
● Transcribed heavy dictation from a firm-established typing list and provided proofreading services.
● Prepared correspondence, pleadings, file documentation, and reports with attention to detail and accuracy.
● Copied, scanned, emailed, saved, organized, edited, updated, made calls and answered phones, prepared overnight mail, opened new files and checked conflicts.
● Made travel arrangements, set up reminders, processed vendor invoices, obtained checks, made credit card purchases.
● E-filed, properly served, communicated with courts, obtained court reporters and couriers.
● Timely prepared time sheets, expenses, lists, and contacts/Outlook.
● Scheduled and calendared meetings, depositions, court issued filing dates, events, and made travel arrangements.
Legal Assistant
Hall Booth Smith, PC, Atlanta, Georgia
June 2014 – February 2018
● Supported four attorneys in medical malpractice defense litigation, government affairs, lobbying, senior management and hiring attorneys.
● Prepared correspondence, pleadings, indexes, agreements, memorandums, file documentation, reports, and other documentation with attention to detail and accuracy. Demonstrated excellent proofreading and document comparison skills.
● Copied, scanned, emailed, saved, organized, edited, updated, made calls and answered phones, prepared overnight mail, opened new files and checked conflicts.
● Made travel arrangements, set up reminders, arranged CLE Seminars, processed vendor invoices, obtained checks, made credit card purchases and reconciled bills.
● E-filed, properly served, communicated with courts, obtained court reporters and couriers.
● Timely prepared time sheets, expenses, lists, reminders and contacts/Outlook.
● Maintained spreadsheets, lists, schedules, and deadlines.
● Scheduled and calendared meetings, depositions, court issued filing dates, events, and made travel arrangements.
● Maintained efficient and organized filing for both iManage and hard copy files.
● Maintained positive, productive relationships with attorneys, adjusters, clients, vendors, management and staff.
● Effective gatekeeper.
Legal Assistant
Norfolk Southern Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
2008 - February 2014
● Supported two attorneys and VP, Real Estate, managing real estate acquisition and sale closings (mostly land) and the Right of Entry Program for railroad’s operation in 22 states.
● Effective gatekeeper.
● Reviewed, analyzed and prepared contracts, agreements, easements, deeds and other legal documents.
● Recorded documents with local courts in various counties and states.
● Reviewed title.
● Coordinated closing activity with outside counsel, title agents, bankers, railroad employees and customers, through the exchange of funds and post-closing matters.
● Maintained organized records and spreadsheets for corporate reporting.
● Managed large Chicago project (500+ acquisitions) with outside counsel. Legal Assistant
Schulten Ward & Turner, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
2002 through 2008
● Supported two attorneys in commercial real estate and corporate law.
● Exposed to Affordable Housing and State and Federal Tax Credits.
● Assisted with closings, prepared closing binders, drafted, revised and redlined documents, organized labor - intensive files, maintained minute books, provided frequent web research, and prepared correspondence.
● Recorded deeds according to state rules and guidelines.
● Prepared and filed corporate documents and annual registration filings with Secretary of State.
● Maintained extensive client contact.
EDUCATION
● Dekalb Technical Institute, Decatur, Georgia, Computer Programming, 90 hours, GPA 4.0
● Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
● Gordon Jr. College, Barnesville, GA, Associate of Arts, Psychology, with honors SKILLS & TRAINING
● 70 wpm typing
● Notary Public
● Windows, iManage, Microsoft Outlook, Word, WordPerfect, DTE, Elite, Aderant and other time entry software, Excel, Acrobat Adobe, Nuance PDF, Powerpoint, PC Docs, World Dox, WorkSite, FileSite, Workshare, DeltaView, Salesforce, Big Hand, Concur, SAP, and Sharefile.
● Exceptional telephone persona, proofreading skills, and command of the English language. Loyal gatekeeper, excellent work ethic, team player.
● Understand legal processes and the importance of new business, marketing matters and maintaining professional relationships.
● Advanced software program classes; Introduction to Title Exam; Time Management Studies; Paralegal Seminars in Civil Litigation and Preparation of Pleadings; Preventing Legal Malpractice Claims and Ethics Complaints by Risk Management Services; and Audrey Daniels Behavioral Training.
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