TERRY O. GREENWOOD

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Chicago, Illinois 60640

Cell No.: 773-***-****

Email: terry11146 @ yahoo.com

Temporary Positions Included: More than 15+ years of extensive experience working as an administrative assistant/legal and expertise in performed data entry and other clerical duties.

Temporary Work as a Legal Assistant and an Administrative Assistant for various employment agencies, Chicago, IL June 2010 - December 2011

• Worked with NORC at the University of Chicago as a Telephone Solicitor.

• Worked with American Postal Service Union as an Administrative Assistant.

• Worked with Affirmative Insurance as an Legal Assistant.

Allstate Insurance Company - Legal Department, Chicago, IL Sept. 2007 - April 2010

Legal Administrative Assistant/Scheduler

• Assisted three attorneys in our Seattle, Washington office working with an application called Team Connect which connects all Allstate employees to each other for reviewing legal documents, memos and correspondence. We also communicated by telephone, faxes and emails.

• Responsibilities included scheduling the time, place and location of our clients’ depositions, mediations and arbitrations for court hearings.

• Maintained attorneys’ calendars, called the opposing counsels, judges, court reporters, claim representatives and our clients to make sure that all parties are present for their court dates, the time and places agreed upon due to my scheduling same.

• Prepared and filed legal documents, agreements for court and composed correspondence.

• Responsible for assisting the receptionist when needed.

Freelance, Chicago , IL Nov. 2005 – Sep. 2007

Legal Administrative Assistant:

• Worked with various law firms and corporations and performed excellent legal administrative support.

• Prepared legal documents, agreements for court, prepared correspondence, filed legal documents, and entered attorney’s time entry on a daily basis.

• Provided support to corporate clients and made travel arrangements, greeted clients, composed correspondence, etc.

•Performed routine clerical duties consisting of scanning and filing legal documents, uploading documents, arranging documents in a proper manner, created reports using MS Excel, data entry, etc.

• Made required corrections to legal documents, entered data entry information and heavy dictaphone usage.

• Editing and maintaining various reports and graphs (using Excel and PowerPoint software).

• Responsible for filing and keeping track of calendar (Outlook application) for meetings and travel arrangements.

Stamos & Trucco – Law Firm, Chicago , IL Sept. 2004 – Nov. 2005

Legal Administrative Assistant

• Assisted attorneys in preparing legal documents, correspondence, filing, making travel arrangements, answering telephone calls, heavy dictaphone usage, typing various transcripts for our many clients as well as doctors, plaintiffs and family members involved in law suits.

• Responsibilities included entering data entry for clients with billing invoices and the firm’s vendor expenses using Juris and Quick Books software.

• Prepared letters for clients using MS Word with billing invoices attached for payment.

• Resolved client’s queries and responsible for keeping up with the filing of invoices and maintained up-to-date filing system.

• Performed routine clerical duties such as scanning and filing legal documents, uploading documents, arranging documents in a proper manner, created reports using MS Excel, data entry, etc.

Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL Oct. 1997- Sept. 2004

Legal Administrative Assistant

• Assisted two Senior Managing Partners performing a full range of administrative and secretarial duties which included: drafting and amending correspondence, memos and various legal documents.

• Responsibilities also included drafting and amending motions, notices, orders, petitions, contract agreements and organizational charts.

• Made travel arrangements and maintain attorneys’ calendar.

Education:

Harold Washington, Chicago , IL - 1980-1982

Associates Degree in Business Administration

Computer Learning Center, Chicago, IL - 1977-1979

Computer Programming and Computer Operations

Technology Experience:

Microsoft Word Versions: 2003, 2007

Outlook, Imanage, Power Point and Excel Experience

Extensive Internet Usage

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