Legal Assistant/Paralegal/Administrative/Executive Assistant

Mary T. Newlin **** E. Ballard Rd., Colbert, WA **005* 509-***-****

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES

I am pursuing a challenging position that offers the opportunity to utilize my unique combination of experience, training, and capabilities to contribute to the team effort. I would also like to pursue additional training or education to advance into better and more challenging positions within any organization.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP Lawyers 07/31/2024-11/14/2024 Legal/Administrative Assistant

Areas of Law: Employment, Civil Litigation, and Insurance Defense

• Answer phones; draft correspondence, pleadings; client interaction communication; scheduling; travel arrangements; prioritize work tasks; trial preparation; edit revise documents; coordinate hearings; witness depositions and other appointments; serve/file pleadings in accordance with court rules; worked in all state and federal courts in Washington and Idaho, as well as Washington and Idaho Court of Appeals; organize documents in a cloud link for discovery; and perform confidential administrative tasks. Witherspoon, Kelley, Davenport & Toole, P.S. aka Hawley Troxell 06/2021-07/30/2024 Law Firm

Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Employment, Civil Litigation and Insurance Defense

• Same duties as above for Gordon Rees.

Lee & Hayes, P.C. Patent Firm 01/22/2018-06/30/2020 Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Civil/Patent Litigation

• Same duties as above for Gordon Rees.

Paine Hamblen, LLP Law Firm 10/04/2007-01/20/2018

Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Employment, Civil Litigation and Insurance Defense

• Same duties as above for Gordon Rees.

Michael Wren Investments

Assistant to Retirement accounts 06/2007-10/04/2007

• All administrative tasks with regards to organizing retirement accounts. Evans, Craven & Lackie, P.S. Law Firm 04/1999-04/2007 Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Employment, Civil Litigation, and Insurance Defense

• Answer phones; draft correspondence, pleadings; client interaction communication; scheduling; travel arrangements; prioritize work tasks; all aspects of trial preparation; edit revise documents; coordinate hearings; witness depositions and other appointments; serve/file pleadings in accordance with court rules; filed in state courts in Washington and Idaho; and perform confidential administrative tasks. Keefe King & Bowman, P.S. Law Firm 01/1996-04/1999 Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Employment, Civil Litigation, and Insurance Defense

• Same duties above for Evans Craven & Lackie.

Winston & Cashatt Law Firm 01/1996-04/1999

Legal/Administrative Assistant/Paralegal

Areas of Law: Employment, Construction, and Personal Injury Litigation, and Insurance Defense

• Same duties as above for Gordon Rees.

SKILLS AND PERSONAL

• Proficient with e-mails/calendaring on Microsoft Outlook

• Proficient with calendaring deadline dates on CompuLaw and Milana

• Proficient with Worldox and I-Manage for stored documents

• Proficient with internet research

• Proficient with Microsoft Word and PDF formatting

• Efficient with Excel

• Accepts supervision, yet also self-motivated to accomplish assigned tasks

• Always strive to achieve excellence

• Very fast learner, always expending knowledge base with further study/research

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent multi-tasking skills

EDUCATION

Spokane Community College Winter Quarter – 1987

Continued education in the Paralegal Program – Courses completed: Legal Research and Writing and Community Property Law

Spokane Community College 1980-1982

Associates of Arts Degree – Legal Assistant Program References will be furnished upon request

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