Senior Legal Secretary

FLORENCE A. GREENSTEIN

** ****** ****** *********: 845-***-****

POK, NY 12603 ************@*****.*** Cell: 718-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Administrative Assistant Professional with over 20 years of legal secretarial experience in various areas at a top-ten New York-based law firm. Highly efficient, organized, and detailed. Liaison between partners and associates. Excellent customer relation skills. Excellent communication skills with the demonstrated ability to interact across corporate levels. Comfortable working with different personalities to meet their business needs. Computer savvy. Recent graduate with the proven ability to grasp learning on a current basis and focus on a major that will provide added value to the legal secretarial position.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP, New York, NY 1988 – 2009

Assistant to Partner, Corporate Governance Department

• Typed Corporate Governance (International) Manual, including the set-up of dozens of tables

• Drafted correspondence and responsible for filings

• Extensive and intensive liaison with clients

• Intermediary and point-person for Partner/Associate relations

• Maintained records for, tabulated and organized numerous Board of Directors Evaluation schedules

• Maintained Partner’s calendar and was responsible for scheduling meetings and appointments

• Kept record of attorney’s daily work log

• Scheduled and monitored heavy travel and itinerary to avoid overlapping and conflicting scheduling

Assistant to Partner, Litigation Department

• Responsible for typing and preparation of various legal documents

• Responsible for filing legal documents

• Participated in courtroom support and assisted on several trials

Assistant to Partner, Tax Department

• Responsible for typing and preparation of various legal documents

• Updated CCH books

Floater Staff

• Assisted various attorneys with document preparation, notes for meetings with clients, day-to-day correspondence, record filing and normal desk support

JOHNSTON INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CORP., New York, NY

Administrative Assistant to Comptroller, Customer Service Manager, Promotion List Manager, Magazine Production Manager

• Retrieved, analyzed and set up in report format computer data for numerous revenue reports, and organized and set-up files and reports for permanent year-end date

• Daily dictation and transcription of various office correspondence, independent writing of letters and reports

• Designed numerous forms and methods for opening and retrieving computer data

• Kept international flight schedules and handled airline reservations for corporate officers and sales personnel

• Trained new personnel and wrote operation manuals for production and promotion systems

• Handled all purchases and inventory control

• Heavy telephone work with customers and sales personnel

• Inputted advertising orders into system and updated and mailed customer correspondence, kept advertising schedules for 14 publications, and maintained in-house promotion lists

• Responsible for the layout of two magazines (English and Spanish versions)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Hunter College, CUNY, New York; GPA: 3.8, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2008

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Typing: 75-90 WPM

• Shorthand: 80 WPM Pitman

• Knowledge of standard office machines (Dictaphone, fax, scanner, copier)

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Outlook); Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint

Contact this candidate