Legal Secretary Dow Chemical

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VICTORIA AMADOR

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

LEGAL SECRETARY Experienced Legal Secretary with 20+ year's experience: Duties have included coordinating office management, legal billing and special projects with a degree of efficiency. Assistance provided for partners, associates and paralegals in fast paced large law firm. Maintain excellent communication skills, problem resolution abilities, and a high level of confidentiality while working with high profile clients. SKILLS

Adobe Acrobat – edit, compare, convert

documents into other formats

Concordance – database

Concur – create expense reports and travel

arrangements

E-file – experience with Circuit, Federal and

Appellate courts

Gmail Calendar

iManage – document management system

Microsoft Software –

Word – compare documents, tables, table of

contents, table of authorities,

Power Point – edit and prepare presentations

Excel – create, edit and format spreadsheets

NetDocuments – document management system

Nuance

Outlook – calendar and meeting invitation

Teams Meetings

Zoom Meetings

WORK HISTORY

Legal Secretary, 02/2011 to 04/2020

Jackson Lewis, P.C – Chicago, IL

Provide legal assistance for employment litigation firm which included partners and associates.

My responsibilities included the following: prepare documents (including pleadings and correspondence) for court/trial; maintain client files, assist with client billing, coordinate travel arrangements.

State (Odyssey)/District (Pacer) efiing systems; EEOC/IDHR/DOL filings. Legal Secretary, 09/2009 to 07/2010

Propes & Kaveny, LLC – Chicago, IL

Provide legal assistance for plaintiff's litigation firm which included partners and associates.

My responsibilities included preparing documents for court/trial, assisted in the preparation of four trials, maintain calendar, maintain client files, assist with client billing, coordinate travel arrangements, 2 P a g e

coordinate out of town meetings, conference calls, and depositions. Secretary to Lorna Propes, current Circuit Court Judge.

Legal Secretary, 05/2007 to 09/2009

Law Office Of Carrie K. Huff – Chicago, IL

Provide legal assistance for litigation firm which included but not limited to ecclesiastical matters.

Coordinated office move to new location, including transfer of files (both physical and electronic) from Mayer Brown to the Law Office of Carrie K. Huff.

Set-up and maintain office software and read manuals on the upkeep of same.

Process monthly client billing (Tabs3) for firm including timekeeping, expense reports and expenses attributable to specific cases.

Maintained Concordance class action database, prepared documents for trial/court using styles, tables, and Excel.

Legal Secretary, 06/1993 to 05/2007

Mayer Brown – Chicago, IL

Provided legal assistance for the following legal fields: litigation, banking/finance, corporate benefits, and intellectual property litigation.

Experience with ecclesiastical litigation, Dow Chemical litigation (mesothelioma, breast implant), financing of aircraft (United, American Airlines), mergers and acquisitions, professional misconduct, high profile clients, highly confidential matters.

Maintained class action databases (Concordance), organization of client files (LegalKey) and confidentiality of same, prepared organizational charts (Visio) and presentations for potential clients

(PowerPoint).

Processed complicated expense reports requiring a high degree of attention to detail; assigned partner travel time was 80% out of the office, coordinated last minute travel arrangements, meeting spaces, client contacts and client arrangements.

Processed monthly billing which included client specified back-up and formatting, including Dow billing and other confidential client billing.

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