LAURA A. KREMER
WYOMING, MI 49519
616-***-**** (c)
********@*******.***
OBJECTIVE
Experienced secretary/administrative assistant seeks a part-time, work-from-home position that allows me to contribute to the strength and longevity of your business. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Administrative Assistant, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Grand Rapids, MI 2020-2022 Two years’ experience as administrative assistant in nationwide automotive litigation department of multi-state law practice in a strictly remote position. Responsibilities included: Downloading PDFs of discovery pleadings; converting PDFs to Word format; and editing and proofreading resulting Word documents to ensure exact matches to original PDFs. Legal Secretary, Baxter & Kladder, P.L.C., Grand Rapids, MI 2002-2020 Eighteen years’ experience as legal secretary to both partners of general law practice. Responsibilities included: Serving as first point of contact and “go-to” person for client inquiries; dictation transcription; editing; drafting correspondence; scheduling client appointments, court hearings, and depositions; deadline adherence; filing/e-filing pleadings with local courts; serving pleadings and arranging for service of process; billing; ordering records; and office operations such as maintaining inventory of office supplies, photocopying, scanning, faxing, filing, incoming and outgoing mail, and arranging service appointments for photocopier.
Legal Secretary, Garan Lucow Miller P.C., Grand Rapids, MI 1997-2001 Four years’ experience as legal secretary to managing partner and associate attorney in insurance defense practice. Responsibilities included: Dictation transcription; editing; drafting correspondence; deadline adherence; serving pleadings; interacting with clients by telephone; billing data entry; and office operations such as photocopying, faxing, filing, and mailing. Executive Secretary, Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company, Holland, MI 1993-1997 Four years’ experience as executive secretary to president and senior executives of family-owned recycling business. Responsibilities included: Dictation transcription; editing; secretarial support for sales staff; interacting with customers and vendors by telephone; scheduling rail shipments of scrap materials; purchasing scrap batteries; preparing environmental reports in compliance with state regulations; and office operations such as photocopying, faxing, filing, and mailing. Legal Secretary, Wheeler Upham, P.C., Grand Rapids, MI 1989-1993 Four years’ experience as legal secretary to managing partner and associate attorney in insurance defense practice. Responsibilities included: Dictation transcription; editing; drafting correspondence; deadline adherence; serving pleadings; interacting with clients by telephone; and office operations such as photocopying, faxing, filing, and mailing. Billing Clerk and Legal Secretary, Vandeveer Garzia, P.C., Grand Rapids, MI 1988-1989 Started as billing clerk during college and advanced to legal secretary in civil litigation practice. Duties included: Data entry; word processing and editing; dictation transcription; serving pleadings; and office operations such as photocopying, faxing, filing, and mailing. SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS
Proficient in MS Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, TimeSlips; some Excel and QuickBooks experience. EDUCATION
B.A., Russian Studies and German, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 1989