Assistant Office

ANNMARIE M. DEIS

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Livonia, Michigan 48154

734-***-**** - home

313-***-**** - mobile

m4dixg@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

More than ten years’ experience within large intellectual property law firm lending support to more than ten attorneys and two legal assistants while simultaneously attended school to become a court reporter to eventually transition to a freelance court reporter.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

2002 - Present PROFESSIONAL FREELANCE COURT REPORTER

Self-employed Freelance Court Reporter, Home Office (2008 – Present)

Esquire Deposition Services, Troy, Michigan (2002 – 2008)

• Currently have working relationships with seven local and out-of-state court reporting firms.

• Attend depositions, examinations under oath, and creditors’ examinations while stenographically recording testimony and events at speaking speeds in excess of 200 words per minute.

• Oversee the depositions and examinations for smooth facilitation of same and the most accurate record of testimony and events.

• Administer oath to witnesses.

• Prepare, proofread, and provide final transcripts utilizing Computer-Aided Transcription software.

• Proficient in the English language, including grammar, punctuation, and proper writing styles.

• Preparation of invoices to attorneys’ firms and insurance companies.

1997 - 2008 GIFFORD, KRASS, SPRINKLE, ANDERSON & CITKOWSKI, P.C., Troy, Michigan

Legal Assistant

• Corresponded with foreign associates, preparation for filing of foreign patents and trademarks, maintenance of dockets with respect to annuities.

• Maintained multi-attorney docket with respect to patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, and foreign prosecution.

• Provided direct litigation support, maintained pleadings books, preparation of pleadings to be filed in court, maintained litigation docket.

• Prepared patent and trademark applications to be filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, conversed with trademark examiners.

• Created and formatted various documents including complaints, discovery, motions and briefs, patent and trademark applications, and correspondence.

• Coordinated file database with respect to storage items including docketing files for destruction dates, maintaining records of files’ locations for cross reference.

EDUCATION:

1997 - 2002 ELSA COOPER INSTITUTE OF COURT REPORTING, Southfield, Michigan

1995 – 1997 OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Farmington Hills, Michigan

COMPUTER SKILLS:

MS-Word, MS-Excel, Outlook Express, Juris, IP-DAS, MS-PowerPoint

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