Assistant Manager

MONIQUE ARENAS

***** ******* *****

Davie, Florida 33325

Work: 305-***-****

Phone: 305-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

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Objective:

To obtain a position as a paralegal, utilizing thirteen years of law firm and research experience.

Employment History:

February 2008 – Present REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP

Conduct research for office of forty-one attorneys locating background information of medical and professional experts, judges, attorneys and witnesses. Perform nationwide witness location searches. Track ongoing case and legislative developments regarding our clients. Request and facilitate document retrievals from courts and libraries. Maintain an eight-thousand volume library collection. Perform all the functions of a full service library including, but not limited to, online case research, legislative history research, case pulls, filing, routing, budgeting, collection development and acquisitions. Frequently, asked to locate cases based on legal issues.

January 2005 – February 2008 SENIOR RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP

(Formerly Steel, Hector & Davis LLP)

Miami, Florida

Catalogued the Library collection and managed book acquisitions. Provided reference assistance for office of thirty-one attorneys and in-depth reference coverage in the director’s absence. Performed various research projects including securities analyst reports and risk assessment of potential clients. Assisted in new litigation tracking for existing clients. Provided training to new Library interns in billing and basic research assistance. Acted as the intermediary and translator for the Librarian in the Dominican office with vendors and fellow employees. Assisted the Regional Manager in collection development and redundancy in an over thirty thousand volume collection.

January 2004 - January 2005 LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Hunton & Williams LLP,

Miami, Florida

Loose-leaf book updating and shelving Additional clerical duties that included filing, tracking down missing books firm-wide, and check requests. Accessed the Sydney Plus catalogue system for daily routing of periodicals. Accessed circuit and federal court dockets, criminal and people searches on Accurint and Autotrack, company financial and statistical information on LivEdgar and Hoover's Online, and accessing BNA online materials.

March 1998 - January 2004 LIBRARY ASSISTANT AND DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT

Steel, Hector & Davis LLP,

Miami, Florida

Shelving, book borrowing, case pulls, pocket part updates and other standard library duties. Entered the monthly billable time for all of the Library staff. Calculated and tracked the monthly billing done for book and online services. Created and maintained Excel documents that would be used for budgeting purposes by the director. Weekly assessment of Westlaw Quickview and Lexis Power Invoice billing to be sent to accounting. Assisted the Library Director by organizing various Library events for National Library Week, the firm staff and secretary parties, as well as SFALL holiday parties. Clerical duties included answering phones, checking e-mails and voicemail daily, writing and scheduling appointments and conference rooms, typing missing book e-mails, labeling folders and filing. Began work on the GLAS Catalogue for acquisitions until a permanent employee for the position was found. Compiled new attorney packages, toured new attorneys though out libraries and introduced them to our library’s online web page and its features.

Languages:

Fluent in English & Spanish

Education:

January 2012 - Professional Paralegal Studies Program, Ashworth College, Norcross, Georgia

1996 - Bachelors of Arts in Political Science, minors in English and History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

1996 - Senior year elected Secretary of College Democrats

1992 - Freshman year was an active member in the university’s branch of the College Democrats.

Computer Training:

WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Westlaw and Lexis, Accurint,TLO, Courtlink, West Monitor Suite, CCH Internet Research Network Training, EOS.Web, DRI, PACER and other Online Court Internet Databases, as well as continued training on search techniques and databases.

Special Interests:

1st Dan Black Belt in Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do

The University of Tae Kwon Do, Miami, Florida

Volunteerism and Community Service:

Member of Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Volunteer Committee.

Participation in Shook, Hardy & Bacon volunteer efforts with Habitat for Humanity.

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., Miami Entertainment Committee Member

Involved in Steel, Hector & Davis’ volunteer work with the Alzheimer’s Association fund raising efforts.

Volunteer for the local public radio and television station WLRN. Answer phones during pledge drives, working member events and sending out mailing

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

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