Quality Control Assistant

Legal support professional specializing in proofreading (blacklining, cumulative blacklining, and redlining), copyediting and word processing. Energetic, supportive team player with excellent communication skills and high levels of accuracy and productivity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE, New York, NY 2011- present

Legal Proofreader Copyediting, proofreading, blacklining all manner of legal documents. Marketing content as well.

THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, New York, NY 2011 - 2012

Financial Proofreader (temporary gig)

Proofreading; light copyediting. Regularly provided word processing support in PowerPoint, Excel and Word in both the 2003 and 2010 environments. Hybridizing the position boosted turnaround significantly.

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES, New York, NY 2000 - 2009

Legal Proofreader

• Enhanced team depth by providing word processing support and delivering top-operator level proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

• Clarified and trouble-shot project specifications, thus ensuring quality control and timely project completion.

• Coached and coordinated temporary office worker teams when company staffed up for exceptionally high workloads.

FREELANCING 1992 - 2000

Legal and Financial Proofreader

• Worked through agencies and as independent contractor at many of the top law firms and financial printers in NYC including Battle Fowler; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Dewey Ballantine; Debevoise & Plimpton; Hughes, Hubbard & Reed; Sullivan & Cromwell; and Shearman & Sterling.

• Did long stretches at financial firms such as Global Financial Printing, Lehman Brothers, Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, and Kidder Peabody.

• Handled myriad assignments with varying styles and adapted quickly to different workplace environments and expectations.

• Achieved consistently high levels of productivity, regularly meeting tough deadlines.

WILLKIE, FARR & GALLAGHER, New York, NY 1989 - 1992

Senior Legal Assistant, Corporate Dept.

• Coordinated all phases of document production including shepherding documents through the word processing center, proofreading (blacklining, cumulative blacklining, redlining); processing final edits; and supervising internal and external distributions.

• Managed document flow at financial printers in midst of high-pressured closings.

• Adapted to different attorney teams on a daily basis.

ROGERS & WELLS, New York, NY 1987 - 1989

Legal Proofreader

KENSINGTON, JAMES & RESSLER, New York, NY

Legal Assistant

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

EDUCATION

BA, English & American Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI

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