BEVERLY A. SISSON
SISSONVILLE, WV 25320
CELL PHONE 304-***-****
OBJECTIVE: Clerical/Administrative
Typing 80-90 w.p.m. Microsoft Word
PowerPoint Excel
Outlook Dictaphone
Word Perfect 5.1-7.1 CRT
Barrister PC
Wang IBM
Lotus 1-2-3 Switchboard
Scanning Fax Machine
Calculator 10-Key Copiers
IManage LBMS
Equitrac Chrome River
PDS Vista Express Dictate
EDUCATION: 1981 Graduated from Sissonville Senior High School
WORK EXPERIENCE:
9/11 – Present Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC. Legal Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities include working for Business Department, Energy Department and Litigation. Draft and type correspondence, memoranda and other legal documents, proofread, research, prepare excel spreadsheets, enter billable time, open, scan and distribute mail, maintain calendars, schedule appointments, make travel arrangements, process invoices and expense reports, organize and maintain files, open and close files, schedule depositions, e-file with the courts, type dictation, upload court documents.
4/06-9/11 Attorney General’s Office. Legal Secretary
Responsibilities included working on Occupational Pneumoconiosis Cases, Permanent Partial Disability Cases, typed from dictation correspondence, memoranda and other legal documents, proofreading, filing, calendar hearings appointments and depositions, answered phones, organized and maintained files, prepared medical indexes with a brief summary, prepared files for hearings, processed expense reports, and organized brief schedule.
7/97-8/05 Goodwin & Goodwin, LLP. Legal Secretary
Responsibilities included working on Personal Injury Cases, Civil Litigation Cases, Bankruptcy Cases, Guardian Cases, typed memoranda and other legal documents, proofreading, filing, answered phones, scheduled appointments and conferences, made travel arrangements, and entered billable time.
1/95-7/97 King William Circuit Court. Legal Secretary/Senior Clerk Typist
Responsibilities included recording of documents, deeds, deeds of trusts, certificates, assignments, judgments, finance statements and plats, issued marriage license, notary renewals and concealed handgun permits, organized and maintained files for law cases, chancery cases and criminal cases, microfilming, computer input, answered phones, typing, ordered supplies, issued subpoena and subpoena duces tucum’s, prepared docket for court, and helped customer look up information in the record room.
2/91-1/95 McJunkin Corporation. Secretary/Sales
Responsibilities included working for three inside salespersons and two outside salespersons, typing, filing, answered phones, computer input, petty cash, cash sales, expediting, opened and distributed mail, ordered supplies, and wrote up sales orders.
10/86-2/91 Hunton & Williams. Legal Secretary
Responsibilities included typing contracts and legal documents, filing, proofreading, dictation, scheduled appointments, filing, processed expense reports, made travel arrangements, assembled legal closing documents.
10/81-10/86 Charleston National Bank. Secretary for Building Manager
Responsibilities included assisting all tenants in the building, answered phones, scheduled appointments, typing, filing, open and distributed mail and ordered supplies.
STRENGTHS: I am a mature, very organized, self-starting individual with a strong work ethic, outgoing personality, and a team player. This has allowed me to successfully interface with co-workers, management and customers.
SALARY
REQUIREMENTS: Negotiable