Legal Assistant

Lori Bevan

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Largo, Florida 33778

Cell: 727-***-****; Email: ********@***.***

Professional Summary

Ability to work independently and as part of a team in insurance defense litigation, including personal injury, medical malpractice, nursing home, premises liability, and other civil matters. Proficient typing and transcription skills, self-motivated with accurate proofreading, excellent verbal and written communication skills. Sensitivity to maintaining confidentiality. Organization skills and resolving day-to-day issues as well as ability to adapt well to new situations, duties and environments.

Business Skills

• Type 75 wpm

• Word

• Outlook

• Excel

• TimeMatters 13

• Adarant Total Office (Client Profiles)

• TimeSlips

• Transcription

Professional Experience

Groelle & Salmon, Tampa, Florida 1/2015 - 10/2020

Legal Assistant

• Provide legal support to attorneys and paralegal in third-party liability insurance defense matters, i.e., slip and fall, premises liability, sexual misconduct, and construction defect cases

• Schedule and calendar all hearings, depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and other events

• Prepare correspondence, notices, standard pleadings and settlement documents

• Prepare and submit non-party and deposition subpoenas to process server and monitor for service

• Periodic heavy transcription

• File and serve discovery notices and pleadings with Florida Court's E-Portal

• Coordinate travel arrangements, including flight, hotel and rental car reservations

• Process vendor invoices and delinquency follow-up for same

• Generate and submit expense reports

• Input attorney's time into TimeMatters

Haas, Lewis,DiFiore, Tampa, Florida 6/2013 – 7/2014 Legal Assistant

• Assist attorneys in defense of sinkhole litigation, personal injury and divorce cases

• Heavy dictation of correspondence, pleadings, medical chronologies, deposition indexes

• Prepare and monitor service of deposition and trial subpoenas

• Receive, review and scan incoming and outgoing mail, and documentation into Client Profiles

• File and serve pleadings via the Florida Court's E-Portal

• Open new files and assimilate case information into Client Profiles

• Organize and maintain voluminous case files

The Legal Registry, Safety Harbor, Florida 4/2012 - 5/2013 Legal Assistant (temporary)

• Perform legal assistant duties for plaintiff personal injury firm and defense firms McCumber,Daniels, Buntz,Hartig & Puig, Tampa, Florida 10/2009 - 3/2012 Legal Assistant

• Assist partner and associate in defense of medical malpractice and premises liability cases

• Schedule and calendar all hearings, depositions, mediations, and appointments

• Prepare and monitor service of subpoenas; respond to production requests and supporting documents

• Transcribe dictation; prepare discovery, pleadings, correspondence and settlement documents

• Coordinate travel reservations and generate expense reports

• Perform online searches to locate individuals for scheduling depositions

• Open, maintain and close files; create and maintain attorney binders and impeachment files

• Support foreclosure department in drafting/preparing answers to complaints on behalf of second mortgage holders; prepare joint stipulations and orders to set aside default

• Assist sinkhole attorney in scheduling depositions of public adjusters, neutral evaluators and engineers

Education

St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida

Largo High School, Largo, Florida

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