Experienced Administrative & Paralegal Professional (Remote)
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THEODORE METRAKAS
***********@*****.***
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rha Kim Grossman & McIlwain LLP New York, NY January 2024 – Present Paralegal
• Conduct client interviews and draft affidavits.
• Perform legal research via Westlaw.
• Perform discovery review on financial, family, criminal, and other matters.
• Case management and client interaction, tracking case deadlines on variety of cases.
• Draft motions and pleadings, including memoranda of law, notices, and complaints.
• Organize and maintain accurate, detailed files of all pleadings, correspondence, and other attorney work product.
• Manage scheduling of appointments and time-sensitive deadlines for senior attorneys on calendar.
• Use NYSCEF & PACER to e-file motion documents and non-motion documents.
• Draft and mail subpoenas, affidavits, and other legal correspondence.
• Answer phones and perform other ad hoc projects as they arise.
• Utilize Google Suite including Google Docs, Drive, Forms, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), New York, NY April 2023 – January 2024 Legal Administrative Assistant
• Communicate with housing development managers to request documentation for litigation proceedings.
• Organize important legal documents, like stipulations, petitions, predicates, etc., in Sharepoint files.
• Coordinate with attorneys and administrators to ensure that documents are processed efficiently and accurately.
• Conduct extensive data management projects analyzing electronic court systems, Excel spreadsheets, and rent ledgers.
• Perform editing and extraction of documents in Adobe Acrobat to create more efficient, useful records.
• Maintain an up-to-date spreadsheet with critical, time-sensitive information.
• Facilitate the printing, mailing, and filing of a high volume of legal affidavits.
• Follow up with housing developments via email and phone to request additional documents as needed.
• Attend and participate in weekly departmental meetings about the progress of various projects. Jennison Associates, New York, NY April 2022– November 2022 Administrative Assistant
• Answered and screened calls, took accurate messages, and provided information to callers.
• Greeted Agents, staff and visitors, ensuring that Covid-19 protocols were followed for logging in and out of the office.
• Worked directly with the Office Manager to process transaction paperwork for sales and rentals including tracking and filing all necessary paperwork and scanning checks as needed.
• Basic operational understanding of office printers and copiers, changing toners as needed.
• Received, sorted and routed mail, e-mail, voice messages accurately and efficiently to appropriate party.
• Provided general admin duties; such as, typing, filing, copying, faxing, mailings, etc.
• Worked closely with office services staff to provide support when needed.
• Assisted with special projects as needed.
Corcoran Real Estate Group; New York, NY October 2021 – April 2022 Administrative Assistant
• Answered and screened calls, took accurate messages, and provided information to callers.
• Worked directly with the Office Manager to process transaction paperwork for sales and rentals including tracking and filing all necessary paperwork and scanning checks as needed.
• Drafting letters, reviewing mail
• Preparing documents relating to a variety of real estate, loan and construction matters, based on consultation with business clients and review by attorneys, including but not limited to agreements, leases, loan documents, and standard construction contracts.
• Basic operational understanding of office printers and copiers, changing toners as needed.
• Received, sorted and routed mail, e-mail, voice messages accurately and efficiently to appropriate party.
• Provided general admin duties; such as, typing, filing, copying, faxing, mailings, etc.
• Coordinated courier services.
• Worked closely with office services staff to provide support when needed.
• Assisted with special projects as needed.
LIM College, New York, NY August 2016 – August 2020 Adjunct Professor
• Taught Introduction to Ethics and Critical Thinking. I lead class discussions on contemporary ethical issues and the theories underlying them. I present detailed PowerPoint lectures based on my own writing and research into ethical theories and contemporary issues. Class discussion includes extensive media analysis. Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ August 2016 – August 2021 Adjunct Professor
• Teach Introduction to Philosophy, covering the pre-Socratics through Aristotle. I present detailed PowerPoint lectures and lead class discussions on a variety of challenging, stimulating topics relating to the key ideas of philosophy, like metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
Berkeley College, New York, NY August 2016 – August 2020 Adjunct Professor
• Taught Introduction to Ethics and Introduction to Philosophy. I presented detailed PowerPoint lectures and led class discussions on a variety of challenging, stimulating topics relating to ethical theories and contemporary issues.
• Major ethical theories including subjectivism, deontology, utilitarianism, and natural law theory are covered in detail.
• Connections between ethical theories and current events were emphasized, and critical thinking skills were extensively modeled and discussed.
Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY September 2015 – August 2019 Adjunct Professor
• Taught Introduction to Ethics and Introduction to Ancient Philosophy. Used PowerPoint presentations extensively to cover course material in detail.
• Connected the origins of philosophy—like the philosophy of atoms and other early scientific theories—to cutting-edge scientific developments.
India House Club, New York, NY June 2013 – December 2014 Marketing & Membership Coordinator
• Provided administrative support to General Manager; Coordinate between internal catering department, vendors, members, and outside talent to produce events.
• Processed new members and maintained database of member information.
• Wrote copy and design layout for club promotional materials, including emails, newsletters, posters, event flyers.
• Formatted, updated, and maintained club website.
• Formatted and edited historical book on India House's 100-year history.
• Handled all club inquiries via email or phone; Facilitated member access to our reciprocal clubs through formal letters of introduction.
• Produced and analyzed membership roster reports in Excel.
• Assembled materials for monthly Board of Governors and Executive Committee meetings, including membership reports, agenda, minutes, financial reports, and prospective member information. St. John's University, Queens, NY October 2012 – May 2013 Personal/Research Assistant
• Provided support to Professor Charles Wankel with research, teaching, and administrative tasks. Dr. Wankel is a Professor at St. John’s University, who teaches online courses for that institution full-time.
• Assisted Dr. Wankel with professional correspondence in Outlook; Grade student work in several online management courses; Create and maintain comprehensive course outline/syllabi online using Adobe Dreamweaver; Update Dr. Wankel's academic profile.
• Edited, proofread, formatted, and contributed research to manuscripts for Dr. Wankel's projects, including: Emerging Research Directions in Social Entrepreneurship, Springer Publishing, 2013; Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Social Change, Information Age Publishing, 2013; Contemporary Management: A Global Perspective, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. EDUCATION
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY May 2011
Master of Arts: Philosophy
Merrimack College May 2009
Bachelor of Arts: History
SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat, Sharepoint, Research, Writing, 95 WPM typing
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