Legal Assistant Social Media

Jennifer Minick

**** *. ******** **., ***. *** Austin, TX 78752 Cell: 512-***-****

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

OBJECTIVE: I am a highly experienced legal assistant that has been working since 1994. My goal is to find a company that is looking for someone with my skill set and experience that can offer me a permanent place in their company. I would very much enjoy finding a great company who will support my desire of having a stable work environment and the ability to grow within the company. I would like to find a company that I can make a lasting impression with my work and with my personal goals within the company.

•20 plus years of Legal and Administrative Assistant Experience;

•Management of attorneys' and executives daily calendar;

•Plan and coordinate executives’ travel arrangements;

•Draft Discovery Requests (Plaintiff and Defendant);

•Draft and complete filings with the Courts;

•Excellent proofreading skills;

•Prepare trial presentation material;

•Compile expense reports;

•Maintain files and confidential data;

•Prioritize filing systems;

•Respond to all email requests;

•Draft and prepare routine and complex correspondence, reports and documents;

•Responsible for handling confidential and time sensitive material;

•Prepare for meetings, including preparation of agendas, minutes, information needed for meetings;

•Design and maintain electronic and designed a paperless filing system;

•AR/AP knowledge;

•Strong Customer Relations Skills; and

•70 wpm

EMPLOYMENT

LEGAL ASSISTANT/RECEPTIONIST/OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

LAW OFFICES OF MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH, LLP; Contract w/Robert Half, Austin, TX

September 2019 to present

Areas of Law: IP, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Transactional, General Litigation

Responsibilities: Draft and revise emails to multiple parties; Manage the office staff; Prepare various documents for trial; Research and copy cases; Handle specific calls from opposing counsel offices and court staff; Draft correspondence; Correspond with the various other satellite offices; Schedule meetings and catering; Enter and revise time entries; Scan all necessary expenses; Enter expenses into Expense Management; Prepare various outside reimbursements for partners; Organize multiple travel arrangements; Prepare reimbursement forms; Enter weekly time entries; Keep office supplies up to date; Maintain a unified office; Handle all visitors’ needs; Handle multi-line phone system.

FLOATER LEGAL SECRETARY-Contract

LAW OFFICES OF MARTIN, DISIERE, JEFFERSON & WISDOM; Contract w/Robert Half, Austin, TX

March 2019 to May 2019

Areas of Law: Insurance Litigation Defense, General Litigation

Responsibilities: Handled specific calls from claims adjusters, opposing counsel offices and court staff; draft correspondence, draft various discovery shells for multiple clients; revise discovery; scan each document for e-filing; e-file various documents to be filed with multiple county and district courts; save each document into both Worlddox and into the respective drive file; enter various attorney time entries; save each document per firm instructions; make appropriate files for new files; drafted budgets for certain clients prior to opening the trial file; prepare trial binders, mediation binders for various attorneys; prepare documents for mediation or hearings; make sure files are updated regularly.

LEGAL SECRETARY-Contract

LAW OFFICES OF LATIUS R. PRIKRYL, Austin, TX

October 2018 to February 2019

Areas of Law: Probate, Estate Planning, General Litigation

Responsibilities: Handled incoming calls and assist callers with their particular needs; take initial information from new clients; draft correspondence, various Probate documents for case needs; draft and revise discovery; efile various documents with multiple county and district courts; scan and save each document into their appropriate file; make sure that any client requests, needs are met; heavy scanning of all documents and cash deposits for the multiple trucking companies and employees; make sure that all vendors were paid each week and send out checks and scan each said document into matching files; Heaving calendaring; Update all new contacts into each contact folder; make appropriate files for all new files; create the necessary file folders and file matter sheets; prepare documents for mediation or court hearings; make sure files are updated regularly.

COMPLIANCE DOCUMENT SPECIALIST/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Contract

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Austin, TX

July 2017 to February 2018

Areas: Compliance Section

Responsibilities: Organized and cleaned out old paper filings from multiple years for each state; In charge of revising all previous versions of documents with various formatting issues that needed to be corrected; Added each document into a new filing system; Proofed multiple versions of documents for each state to find any revisions that needed to be made to each document; Discuss these issues with our contact regarding each document and managed the corrected version of each said document; Handled all of the new state Application packets; Handled multiple versions of documents that needed to be revised, changed into a PDF, and then placed into the SharePoint system; Pulled multiple requests for documents to be added and/or removed from the SharePoint system; Assisted the team in renaming, revising hundreds of various documents; added these documents to each state folder; in charge of various large mailouts; and worked on various projects as needed.

2014-2017 Worked two jobs outside of the legal field.

LEGAL SECRETARY

William Apt, Esq - Austin, TX May 2012 to January 2014

Areas of Law: Consumer Credit Card Defense; Consumer Debt; Contract Disputes; Probate; and General Litigation

Responsibilities: Review and organize all new files; Schedule appointments for new clients; Manage, calendar all court filings, deadlines; Hand file all court filings; Review, proofread all correspondence, court documents and other miscellaneous documents; Copy, scan, fax, mail out all necessary documents; Responsible for sending out correspondence to potential new clients conformed from database; Meet and discuss file with clients; Manage all billable files, compile monthly costs and expenses for each file; Handle all postage, billable and non-billable; Process and mail all monthly invoices; and Answer phones.

LEGAL ASSISTANT-Contract

Law Offices of Max Tarbox - Bankruptcy Attorney, Corporate and Personal - Lubbock, TX

December 2010 to May 2011

LEGAL SECRETARY

Henslee Schwartz, LLP - Austin, TX February 2007 to May 2008

Areas of Law: School Law; Litigation; Insurance Defense; Real Estate; and General Contractual and Litigation.

Responsibilities: Review and respond to daily emails from attorney inbox; Copy, scan and email daily faxes and incoming mail; Confer with attorneys by reviewing daily task lists and calendars; Update daily task list and calendars; Communicate with clients daily; Review incoming mail; Respond accordingly to mail requests by reviewing files; Compile information from files and confer with attorney; Draft and review construction contracts; Extensive proofreading of documents; Draft letters, various discovery documents, pleadings and orders; Prepare and maintain files; Prepare travel arrangements; meetings, depositions and mediations; Update trial calendars; and Answered multi-line phone system.

EXECUTIVE LEGAL SECRETARY

Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P - Austin, TX

March 2004 to January 2006

Areas of Law: IP Patent Prosecution; IP Patent Litigation; SOAH; and Corporate Litigation

Responsibilities: Prepared and revised various IPTL documents to be sent to PTO and IPTO; Revised litigation documents; Scanned and emailed documents; Copied and faxed documents; Extensive proofreading of documents; Draft letters, various discovery documents, pleadings and orders; Prepared expense reports for attorneys; Coordinated travel arrangements; Scheduled attorneys' meetings, depositions, mediations; Responsible for requesting check requests for invoices to clients; Entered attorneys' monthly time; and Answered multi-phone system.

LEGAL SECRETARY

Barron & Newburger, P.C - Austin, TX

March 2003 to September 2003

LEGAL SECRETARY

Patton Boggs, LLP - Dallas, TX

August 1999 to September 2000

Areas of Law: Business Transactional, Commercial Litigation, and Corporate Litigation

Responsibilities: Organized new firm files; Engaged in initial client interview; Entered file information into system for attorneys' review and file set-up; Revised all transactional documents; Revised and redlined documents; Drafted various pleadings, correspondence and miscellaneous documents as needed; Filed documents with court; Daily Transcription of letters, documents; Faxed emailed, scanned documents; Prepared and disbursed closing documents to multiple parties; Created record of closed files; Organize travel arrangements for attorneys, paralegals and other outside counsel; Managed all monthly calendars; and Entered both attorney and paralegal monthly time sheets.

LEGAL SECRETARY

Stutzman & Bromberg, P.C - Dallas, TX March 1997 to July 1999

Areas of Law: Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Business Transactional and Commercial Litigation.

LEGAL SECRETARY

Peterson, Johnson & Murray, P.C - Milwaukee, WI

September 1996 to February 1997

Areas of Law: Insurance Defense, Worker's Compensation, Litigation and Personal Injury.

LEGAL SECRETARY/RECEPTIONIST

Groves & Groves and Paul Shunatona, Esq. - Dallas, TX

June 1994 to September 1996

Areas of Law: Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Litigation, Family Law, Worker's Compensation, and Social Security.

ADDITIONAL COMPUTER SKILLS

70 wpm; Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Excel, PowerPoint, iManage; iTimeKeep; Expense Management; DocuPro; e-File; PDF/Adobe, Sharepoint, Juris, IManage, DTE, Quickbooks, Worlddox, Concur, Summation, Bestcase, BankruptcyPro, AIA Software, Millennium, Internet Research, Case Law Research/Lexis Nexis, Social Media Research, Lotus Notes, ProDocs, Outlook, Lotus 1-2-3, Timeslips, Transcription, AS400, Data Entry, DOS and 10-Key Touch.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS - Denton, TX; Business Administration

September 1993 to May 1994

PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL - Plano, TX

August 1991 to May 1993

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