Lacy Gonzales

Legal Assistant

Houston, TX *****

adu4d4@r.postjobfree.com

+1-713-***-****

• Detail-oriented legal professional with 15 years of experience in the legal industry. Most current experience involves filing, office services, and receptionist with a legal assistant background. Current goal is to obtain a challenging position in a professional legal environment and inspire to be a paralegal.

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Litigation Legal Assistant

Jim Adler & Associates - Houston, TX

January 2022 to February 2022

Legal Assistant in Litigation Department. Everyday tasks draft Letters, Medical Summaries, Order and check status of medical records and Affidavits.

Legal Assistant

Shepherd Smith Edward & Kantas - Houston, TX

July 2021 to October 2021

Answer phones, prepare trial notebooks, prepare attorney for hearings, case statuses via FINRA, E-Filing via FINRA, scheduling, travel itemized receipts to input in Excel. Legal Secretary

Robert McAllister Attorney at Law - Houston, TX

June 2016 to January 2017

Answered phone and transferred all phone calls accordingly, maintained trial docket, lawyers calendar and email, ordered records for personal injury cases. Responsible for pleadings, expert designations, and correspondence outgoing to clients in a timely matter regarding personal inure, family or criminal law. Served these legal documents by efiling with ProDoc. Communicated with clients either with court reminders or scheduling depositions; or mediations. Legal Assistant

Chandler, Mathis & Zivley - Houston, TX

September 2014 to April 2016

Daily duties consisted but not limited to front desk duties, filing electronic and paper files, reception duties in answering phone calls with Shoretel phone systems and helping clients with case updates. Ordering and following up on medical records. High volume scanning and faxing. Built new database with case management pro maintaining new case info entry and running reports. Assisted trial preparation creating deposition and trial notebooks, bates numbering. Worked with paralegals assisting with projects on deadlines. Drafted acknowledgment letters re power of attorney, letter of authority, health authorizations and mailing to clients.

FILE CLERK

HARTLINE, DACUS, BARGER & DREYER, LLP

October 2012 to July 2014

Duties included file clerk duties, organization of files, filing scanning, preparation of trial notebooks and performing backup general office services, accounts payable & relief receptionist duties. LEGAL ASSISTANT

DEL VALLE LAW FIRM, P.C

December 2010 to June 2012

Front desk duties, file clerk duties, new case inquires, collections, invoices, client correspondence both incoming and outgoing, attorney billing, schedule and organize meetings, court dockets and deadlines, E-Filing on a county & federal level, mediation scheduling, and correspondence, check status of all cases both federal and county, research on Secretary of State, Pacer records, real property records, draft and process Writ of Executions, Abstract of Judgments with Harris, Brazoria, Fort Bend and Galveston counties, draft and prepare original answers, petitions, discovery, settlement process, trial preparation documents and attorney withdraw.

LEGAL RECEPTIONIST/FILE CLERK

September 2010 to December 2010

During my assignments with 2 major law firms (Cozen O'Connor and McKool Smith) downtown; I provided support with the following:

File clerk: index and retrieval of files, OCR documents, high volume scanning and replication. Receptionist: Used Cisco phone systems to route calls to attorneys, conference room reservations, event organization and logging in/out of packages.

LEGAL RECEPTIONIST

A.L. HERNDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW

April 2008 to August 2010

Duties included, check and print out email correspondence, import various drilling reports, typed and mailed out correspondences to clients, update bond list for legal professional office building, process incoming bonds, retrieve current bond list from Bexar County Courthouse, process bonds at Bexar County Sheriff's office, file new cases at courthouse, file and sort mail, and check voicemail. Skills/Software

OFFICE

• Microsoft Office 2013

• OCR/High Volume Scanning

• Organizational and research skills

• Drafting and Pleadings

• Drafting of settlement letter

• Discovery

• Trial Preparation

• Lawyer Calendar organization/deadlines

• Accounts Payable

Education

Government

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - Austin, TX

February 2002 to 2004

Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite (9 years)

• Case Management (9 years)

• Organizational Skills (9 years)

• Receptionist (9 years)

• Filing (9 years)

• Fax (7 years)

• Copy Machine (9 years)

• Legal Drafting

• Medical Records

• Typing

• Personal Assistant Experience

• Adobe Acrobat

• Accounts Receivable

• Salesforce

• Medical Billing

• Legal Research

• Microsoft Outlook

• Office Administration

• CRM software

• Personal injury law

• Communication skills

• Customer service

Additional Information

SKILLS

• WestLaw Next

• ProDoc

• Salesforce

• Net Documents

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Equifax

• Cisco phone system

Case management pro

Shoretel

Electronic medical records

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