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Skills

  • Data entry
  • Budgets
  • Process implementation
  • MS Office
  • Document scanning
  • Problem resolution
  • Team Leadership
  • Project management
  • Team management
  • User interface understanding

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with finance staff.
  • Compiled legal research and summaries.
  • Assisted in legal research using program.
  • Aligned cross-border procedures.
  • Achieved $10 cost savings.
  • Achieved success in 11 cases.
  • Coached junior legal assistants on court filing procedures and legal research methodologies, improving department’s overall productivity by 82%.
  • Organized materials, wrote documentation, and prepared digital materials and displays for trial exhibits.
  • Collaborated with attorneys on case research.
  • Avoided potential delays.

Summaries

  • Strengths in stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration backed up by Legal training.
  • Team player who excels at collaborating with hardware and software experts to create a cohesive and successful design.
  • Achieved a 60% reduction in administrative workload.
  • Top-producing salesperson and industry expert in Legal.
  • Experienced in the logistical challenges of trial preparation.
  • Professional with 15 years of progressive experience in the field who is highly organized and detail-oriented.
  • Skilled in conducting legal research, gathering witness statements, and organizing files.
  • Accomplished in managing subpoenas, discovery submissions, and legal correspondence, recognized for cutting discovery preparation time by 85%.
  • Achieved 100% court acceptance of trial exhibits.
  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the procedure business.

Accomplishments

  • Process Improvement: Created new departmental procedures manual. Assessed organizational training needs.
  • Filed petitions and other court documents well ahead of deadlines, avoiding costly delays and increasing efficiency firm-wide by 58%.
  • Resolved
  • Collaborated with attorneys on discovery processes, organizing 4 pieces of evidence to ensure timely trial submissions.
  • Reduced
  • Developed a centralized template system for recurring legal briefs, reducing drafting time by 65% for 17 attorneys.
  • Documented and resolved framework which led to standard.
  • Initiated a system that tracked legal staff deadlines and obligations, reducing missed deadlines by 25% across multiple cases.
  • Initiated
  • Marketing: Implemented marketing strategies which resulted in standard growth of customer base.

Affiliations

  • International Council of Nurses
  • Certified Legal Assistant (CLA) – framework
  • Litigation Support Professionals Committee – Illinois Bar Association
  • ABA Section of Litigation
  • Legal Assistants Management Association (LAMA)
  • National Docketing Association (NDA)
  • American Society of Administrative Professionals (ASAP)
  • International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA)
  • Legal Secretaries International Inc.
  • Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) – Paralegal Affiliation

Certifications

  • Westlaw Paralegal Certification or Training – framework
  • eDiscovery Specialist Certification, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS)
  • Professional Legal Secretary (PLS) – NALS Association for Legal Professionals
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) - International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Certified Law Firm Administrator (CLFA) – Association of Legal Administrators
  • Salesforce
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • CompTIA Network+
  • Document Management Certification – framework
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute

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