LAURIE STREILING
***** ********** *****, **** *******, BC
V3Y 2S5
Home Phone: 604-***-****
Cellular Phone: 604-***-****
Email: pkkeax@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
MTC College, New Westminster – Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant
Year Graduated: March 1987
EMPLOYMENT
GOWLING LAFLEUR HENDERSON LLP November 2009 to present
Position: Senior Legal Administrative Assistant
Duties: worked in the trademark department assisting four trademark agents and two paralegals. Handled all routine reminders, filing new applications, various correspondence with the Trade-marks Office in Ottawa including, paying registration fees, filing declarations of use, requesting extensions of time. Have handled a bring forward diary.
I have worked with dicta typing, internet, BC Online, Outlook, External email, and Word for Windows.
FARRIS VAUGHAN WILLS & MURPHY August 2007 to October 14, 2009
Position: Legal Floater
Duties: Estates, wills, committeeship, representation agreements, foreclosures, and disclosure statements, tax law, estate planning, corporate securities (general), and administrative duties.
I have worked with dicta typing, internet, BC Online, Outlook, External email, and Word for Windows. I have handled travel arrangements.
DONALD D. McLELLAN PLC February 1991 to August 2007
Position: General Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant
Duties: Assistant to Mr. McLellan including areas of all litigation, estates, corporate, wills, committeeship, representation agreements, foreclosures, and disclosure statements. I dealt directly with clients including all appointments with respect to corporate set-up and wills and estate transactions.
I dealt with all of the day-to-day situations that come with managing the office. I have worked with dicta typing, internet, BC Online, Outlook, External email, and Word for Windows. I handled all of Mr. McLellan’s travel arrangements, when necessary, for him to fly to other jurisdictions for court cases.
I performed the day to day accounting using ESI Law including all disbursement postings, deposits (general and trust), typing of trust cheques, general cheques, accounts payable, accounts receivable, balancing of reconciliation statements of conveyancing transactions, investment of terms for builder’s lien holdbacks and redemption of same, balancing of records for the corporate year-end. Mr. McLellan’s practice is mainly land development and working with land developers.
OGILVIE LAW OFFICES 1988 to 1991
Position: General Legal Secretary
Duties: Assistant to Charles Ogilvie in his practice in general litigation (simple actions), estates, general corporate, wills. I was responsible for all areas required to complete the probate or administration of an estate file, drafting, signing and finalizing a Last Will and Testament, annual filings for corporate entities, and basic litigation actions.
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- Able to work independently and under pressure
- Good written and oral communications
- Experience in a team and sole environment
- Flexible in changes in priorities and deadlines
References available upon request