Real Estate Office

BARBARA HOLTZ

*** **** **** **., ***. *K

New York, NY 10010

212-***-**** | ********@*****.***

EXPERIENCE: CAPLIN & DRYSDALE (satellite office of a Washington, D.C. law firm) 09/09 - Present

Legal Secretary to Senior Partner and Of Counsel Attorney (bankruptcy)

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Answer telephones for firm and greet clients

• Review and print emails for senior partner

• Take dictation from senior partner: letters, memoranda to committees

• Prepare detailed invoices (which include breakdown of expenses among eight clients)

• Enter and proofread timesheets (which require task codes)

• Prepare travel arrangements and expense statements

• Maintain and update notebooks for several asbestos committees’ communications

• Responsible for petty cash box (and its monthly reconciliation)

• Handle the purchase of TransitCheks for office

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 08/92-03/09

(moved with partner from Milgrim Thomajan & Lee P.C.)

Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant to now-retired Senior Partner (litigation, intellectual property), Senior & Junior Associates (employment law)

Responsibilities included, but were not limited to:

• Prepared and proofread correspondence, pleadings and other legal documents

• Transcribed documents from stenography

• Arranged and coordinated travel reservations (domestic & international) and accompanying itinerary

• Prepared expense statements, including foreign monetary exchanges

• Maintained my attorneys’ calendars and contacts

• Scheduled and coordinated meetings and conference calls

• Prepared and updated attorneys’ case lists and client/matter number lists

• Entered and proofread timesheets

• Handled general clerical duties, such as faxing, filing, photocopying and other tasks

• Assisted recordkeeping of various limited partnerships carried over from former firm

• Interacted with clients and other attorneys

• Assisted the Business Development Department at various firm seminars

• Also worked for attorneys in other areas of law, such as real estate, corporate and trusts & estates

MILGRIM THOMAJAN & LEE P.C. 09/87-08/92

Legal Secretary to Litigation Partner and Real Estate Associate

Responsibilities included, but were not limited to:

• Prepared and proofread correspondence, pleadings, leases and other legal documents

• Transcribed documents from extensive stenography

• Arranged and coordinated travel reservations

• Scheduled and coordinated meetings and conference calls

• Prepared expense statements

• Entered and proofread timesheets

• Prepared and finalized monthly invoices

EDUCATION: MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE, B.A., Art History, cum laude, 1988

Honors: Curian Honor Award (consistent G.P.A. over 3.60)

Gold Medal Award for Academic Excellence in Art History

OFFICE SKILLS:

• Typing 85+

• Gregg Stenography 90+

• Notary Public

• Superb knowledge of legal citations

• Excellent proofreader

• Highly organized & detail oriented

• Styles, including TOC and TOA

COMPUTER PROGRAMS:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word XP, Outlook, Excel, working knowledge of PowerPoint)

• CompareRite/DeltaView

• InterAction

• MeetingPlace

• DocsOpen/FileSite

• Carpe Diem/CP Lite

• Workspeed

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