Administrative Assistant Human Resources

Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant with legal background searching for position that will give me the opportunity to utilize my research skills and organizational abilities for advancement and long term growth.

COMPUTER SKILLS

•Word •Excel •PowerPoint •Outlook •Summation Westlaw

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

SUMMARY Solid academic background in law, including foreign JD and Masters Degree with emphasis in Economic Law and International Trade, graduated with a Thesis in Securities Law and a second thesis related to Consumer Law.

COMUNICATION Fluent in English and Spanish with knowledge of legal vocabulary, basic understanding of written French. Ability to communicate effectively with coworkers and diverse group of individuals.

EXPERTISE Ability to analyze legal issues and systematically perform legal research that results in sound conclusions. Collaborative team player that is willing to offer assistance and has the ability to gain support from other team members.

TECHNOLOGY SAVY Highly organized, with the ability to work in a virtual environment, able to adapt to new formats of information technology, and willing to implement new programs.

WORK STYLE Proactive, with strong initiative and leadership skills, good work ethic, and follow up skills, focused on achieving desired results.

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Florida Office of the Attorney General 2007 to Date

Multistate Litigation Consumer Protection/Antitrust Unit

Paralegal Specialist

Currently my Paralegal duties include legal research on Westlaw and information seeking on the internet, draft settlement agreements, consent judgments, cost share agreements, legal memorandums, legal research reports, spreadsheets, discovery reports, draft interrogatories, quarterly reports, and respond to public records requests. Additional administrative duties that I have performed include resolving and responding to consumer complaints, maintaining unit calendar, prepare travel agendas, time keeping, reception coverage, filing, processing invoices, preparing expense reports, data entry, creating office procedure manuals, setting up video conference, time tracking, draft correspondence, assist human resources with hiring process. Finally I am the person on point when it comes to training investigators, staff assistants, and other personal services employees that join our unit on the use of the office programs and procedures.

Nokia, Inc. 2006-2007

Legal Administrative Assistant

I was responsible for routinely managing and updating all contracts into “LEO” NOKIA’s international computer database tool. I also merged and improved the company sponsored access database of contracts. In addition I performed administrative tasks such as; managing calendars, organizing meetings travel, processing invoices, filing, correspondence, etc. Working in a Virtual Legal Team environment, I was responsible for implementing the use of efficient technology tools to update conference call notes, reports and training sessions.

State Attorney’s Office, SINALEVI & Area of Public Law, CR 2003–2006

Assistant Attorney General

While in SINALEVI my main responsibility was to digitalize laws into SINALEVI database making sure all reforms and links to other laws were recorded correctly in the system. In support of these duties I also performed legal research on SINALEVI database, historic law book collections, gazettes, congress files, and Costa Rica National Library archival materials of historic value. When necessary I also assisted the public, students and attorneys with legal research by directing them face to face, or via telephone on the use of SINALEVI database and equipment. While in the Area of Public Law my main responsibility was to litigate high profile cases under the supervision of a Senior Attorney General, basically I drafted responses to complaints, drafted several legal opinions, conducted great amount legal research, wrote correspondence related to litigation cases, and updated case status on in-house case database.

EDUCATION

Universidad Estatal a Distancia, CR April 2, 2004

Master in Economic Law and International Trade.

Graduated with Honors with average grade of 9.23

University of Costa Rica March 18, 1999

Foreign J.D. (accredited by the Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc (ACEI).

Florida International University, Legal Assistant Program

Criminal Law 2008

Trial Techniques 2008

Family Law 2008

Civil Procedure 2007

Legal Writing 2007

Legal Research 2000

U.S. Legal System 2000

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Twenty years of interpersonal relations in the legal environment, communicating with law professors, judicial employees, and private attorneys, with over 10 years of experience working in the legal field.

Ten years experience on foreign and international research, such as IACHR, and search for Latin America laws of which some share similar systems to the SINALEVI database.

Drafting of various Legal Opinions for example OJ-066-2004 del 2 de Junio del 2004, Legal Data Entry on www.pgr.go.cr/scij “Costa Rican Legal Information System”.

Created a collection on SINALEVI of all the Judicial Cooperation laws, treaties, and legal opinions approved by Costa Rica.

Created a collection on SINALEVI of all the Anti-Terrorism laws, Legal Opinions, and jurisprudence approved by Costa Rica.

Wrote thesis “La Natruraleza Juridica de las Calificadoras de Riesgo” to Licensed as an Attorney

http://www.sinabi.go.cr/Default.aspx?tipo=catalogo&campo=autor&expresion=Cascante%20Avil%2C3%A9s,%20Helvetia

Wrote thesis “Disciplina del Credito Bancario y Defensa del Consumidor”

http://www.uned.ac.cr/posgrados/recursos/invMaeDerEco.shtml

2010 Davis Productivity Award

MEMBERSHIPS

Costa Rica BAR 1998

COURSES & SEMINARS

16th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute (PLI) 2012

U.S. Employment Law for Non – U.S. Attorneys (PLI) 2011

Multi-Agency Enforcement Efforts in the New Decade (PLI) 2011

CT Summation Boot Camp 2009

Citizens and the Administration 2005

Law against corruption and bribery 2005

Antitrust Law 2004

General Document Writing 2004

Free Trade Agreement 2004

Planning and didactic techniques 2003

Citizens Crime Watch Instructor 2002

A new model of citizen security 2001

Sexual Offenses of Minors’, the Police’s role 2001

Drug Prevention in Communities 2001

Citizens Security and Criminal Justice 1999

Concept and Navigation on the Internet 1996

Rent Law 1996

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