1. Commercial Real
Estate Leasing Legal Secretary/Paralegal
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Practice
areas:
Commercial Real Estate
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Responsibilities:
Approximately 17
years with most recent employer.
Managed and administered
commercial retail leasing for major national institutional
landlords and developers. Drafted and negotiated commercial
retail leases involving in excess of one million square feet of
retail space for national and regional retailers. Created and
implemented status tracking system and coordinated leasing
activities for projects located in Georgia, New Mexico, Utah,
Texas, and Florida. Created shopping center lease forms and
exhibits. Served as liaison with the client, the landlord, the
tenant, and landlords' and tenants' counsel.
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Salary
Requirement:
high $40s to low $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #1
2.
Corporate/Litigation Legal Secretary
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Practice areas:
Corporate, Litigation
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Responsibilities:
Approximately 11 years with most recent employer. Performed
secretarial and administrative duties for one corporate
senior partner (head of the corporate department) and
two associates (corporate and litigation). Answered
phones, interacted with clients (both domestic and
international clients). Prepared and proofread
correspondence, engagement letters, memoranda,
agreements, opinion letters, briefs, motions, discovery,
10-K’s, registration statements, etc. Opened/closed
client files. Maintained attorney time and billing and
prepared cover letters for bills.
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Software Skills:
Microsoft
Word, I-Manage, Hummingbird, Microsoft Outlook, Elite,
Carpe Diem, DTE, Power Point, Excel, Delta View, Full
Authority
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Salary Requirement:
$50k+
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #2
3. Corporate Legal
Assistant
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Practice
areas:
Corporate Real Estate
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Responsibilities:
Provide support for
Vice President and Associate
General Counsel. Prepares correspondence, contracts and other
documents. Answers phones and provides information to third
parties.
Schedule and maintain calendar for various meetings. Make travel
arrangements. Assist attorneys by interacting with various
departments
to investigate, gather and review data and business information.
Complete expense reports and check requests.
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Software
Skills:
Proficient in
Microsoft Office tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access), Lotus
Notes, Outlook
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Salary
Requirement:
mid to high $40s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #3
4. Corporate Legal
Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Corporate, Estate Planning
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Responsibilities:
5+ years with
current employer. Responsibilities include filing, time entry,
incorporating businesses, preparing corporate agreements, estate
planning, caveats. File documents with appropriate probate
courts and superior courts, and the Georgia Secretary of State
office, as well as other national Secretary of State Offices.
Prepare check requests, courier requests, and drafting simple
form letters for publication and sending out documents.
Coordinate travel arrangements.
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Software
Skills:
Microsoft Office
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Salary
Requirement:
mid to high $40s
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Secretary Candidate #4
5. Corporate/Commercial
Litigation Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Corporate Banking,
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Education/Certifications:
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Responsibilities:
Approximately 6
years with most recent employer. Prepared and revised various
litigation documents including interrogatories, answers, motions
and pleadings. Entered and maintained time entry records.
Arranged extensive travel arrangements for domestic and foreign
travel for partner. Maintained departmental files and pleadings
binders. Also prepared and maintained closing binders and
related files. Prepared and revised related closing documents.
Interacted with various banking and corporate clients regarding
matters for completion of closings.
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Software
Skills:
Microsoft Word 2000,
Windows XP Professional, Access Database, DeltaView, Excel,
Outlook and Outlook Express, PowerPoint, Scan/Adobe/PDF, Time
Entry Programs: Carpe Diem, Tap and Star
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Salary
Requirement:
high $40s to low $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #5
6. Litigation Legal
Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Commercial Litigation,
Insurance Defense [slip & fall] (defending doctors and State
Farm Insurance), Medical Malpractice (defending doctors and
hospital, nurses, nursing homes), Medical Malpractice, Labor &
Employment, Bankruptcy, Commercial Real Estate Closings
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Education: Attended Indiana State University for one year, majoring in English
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Responsibilities:
Twenty years of experience as a legal secretary to senior
partners, primarily consisting of heavy transcription (as many
15 tapes a day); typing pleadings, organizing and maintaining
heavy filing. Excellent job stability with 2 years, 5 years and
3 years in the last few positions –working in 70 to 300 attorney
law firms. Accustomed to working for senior partners with
extensive telephone and personal contact with clients. Prepared
monthly billing statements. Drafted and revised pleadings,
discovery, correspondence, and complex charts. At one time,
worked for a senior attorney who specialized in FDIC
corporate/insurance government litigation. For over 8 years,
managed/supervised the night shift word processing department of
a large law firm.
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Software
Skills:
WordPerfect, MSWord, Excel, TrialWorks, and several timekeeping
software packages. Types 80 wpm
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Salary
Requirements:
mid to high $40s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #6
7. Insurance Defense
Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Insurance Defense Litigation
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Responsibilities:
Responsibilities have included daily
Dictation, opening/closing files, entering time, daily
communication with clients, maintaining calendars, scheduling
depositions, scheduling mediations, requesting medical records,
organization of files. Prepared motions, discovery, and
correspondence.
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Software
Skills:
Word 2000; Word Perfect 8.0; Dictaphone; Quicken; Tabs; Orion;
Timeslips; Outlook
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Salary
Requirement:
mid to high $40s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #7
8. Legal Assistant to
General Counsel
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Practice
areas:
Corporate
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Education/Certifications:
Paralegal Certificate
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Responsibilities:
Provided administrative support to the General Counsel and the
entire legal team consisting of paralegals and outside counsel.
Also provided backup support to the CEO and CFO of the company
as needed. Recognized for being highly organized and responsive
to needs of the General Counsel and the legal department.
Successfully handled information requiring a high level of
confidentiality and discretion. Supported General Counsel in
preparation of merger including outreach to the Board of
Directors. Worked with paralegals to ensure projects were
completed in a timely manner. Obtained knowledge of SEC filings
utilizing the EdgarEase software program.
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Software
Skills:
Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Publisher, Internet Applications, Microsoft Power
Point, Outlook, Harvard Graphics, Microsoft Excel, Lotus Notes
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Salary
Requirement:
high $40s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #8
9. Litigation Legal
Secretary
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Practice
areas: Medical
Malpractice, Products Liability, Asbestos Litigation, Insurance
Defense, ERISA/Labor & Employment, Commercial Litigation,
Wrongful Death
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Responsibilities:
15 years as a litigation legal secretary, with the most recent 3
years with one firm. Prepared letters and pleadings
(Courtlink), handled filing, organized case files, time entry
and prepared of monthly bills. Assisted the
paralegals/attorneys in the scheduling of
depositions/rescheduling with the courts and the creation of any
reports/budget forms they may need. Assisted other
secretaries/attorneys with their filings in the
state/federal/appellate courts aiding them in editing, proofing,
formatting, or any advanced function such as (sorting, table of
contents, table of authorities, et al) to be performed.
Accustomed to handling advanced level word processing,
transcribing, billing, etc. Gathered all medical records and
bills, scheduled depositions, acted as a liaison between
clients/attorneys/courts, composed letters, pleadings, et al,
answered phones, open and closed files, filed all correspondence
and pleadings, et al, prepared closed files for storage, oversaw
all office equipment and supplies.
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Software
Skills: MSWord,
WordPerfect, PCDocs, OpenDocs, TimeMatters, Orion, ClockWorks,
and accustomed to heavy transcription. Typing 85 wpm
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Salary
Requirement:
$45k+
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #9
10. Workers
Compensation/Litigation Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas: Workers
Compensation, Litigation, Corporate, Probate
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Responsibilities:
Transcribes correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal documents,
articles of organization, bylaws, tax forms and closing
documents. Redline and blackline legal documents. Prepare
expense reports. Maintain appointment calendar and legal
deadlines. Submit requests for production of documents to
non-parties. Maintain and update extensive file system.
Transcribe dictation cassettes. Correspond with clients and
courts at state and superior levels. Prepare and execute Last
Will and Testaments. Maintain daily logs.
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Software
Skills: Word,
Excel, Access, Power Point and WordPerfect
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Salary
Requirements:
high $40s to low $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal
Secretary Candidate #10
11. Commercial Real
Estate Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Commercial Real Estate,
Corporate
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Responsibilities:
3˝ years with most
recent employer. Supported one attorney and one paralegal in
commercial real estate; for one year worked as unassigned
secretary providing overflow assistance to other personnel in
absence of their administrative support staff. Prepared and
edited real estate and corporate documents including mortgages,
purchase and sale agreements, resolutions, bills of sale, FIRPTA,
indemnity agreements, affidavits, etc. Also prepared
correspondence from tape transcription and handwritten copy.
Maintained client files. Entered attorneys’ time. Coordinated
travel arrangements.
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Software/Skills:
10+ Years experience as legal secretary; Excellent work ethic
Strong organizational skills; Highly accurate in word processing
and editing, typing, tape and shorthand transcription; Knowledge
of and experience with various software and office equipment
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Salary
Requirement:
low to mid $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal Secretary Candidate #11
12. Corporate Legal
Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Corporate, Mergers &
Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Health Care
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Education/Certifications:
Medical Secretary Certificate
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Responsibilities:
Stability! 5 ˝
years with most recent employer.
Typed and edited documents
regarding mergers and acquisitions, private securities
offerings, transactions, corporate governance; private offering
memoranda and general contracts.
Prepared closing document
checklist and closing binders. Typed and edited opinion letters,
engagement letters and conflict waivers. Composed and
transcribed general correspondence, memoranda and other legal
documents. Sent documents to clients via email and e-copy.
Entered time, prepared billing letters, answered telephones and
arranged conference calls. Scheduled conference room for
meetings and teleconferences. Maintained files; copying and
faxing. Coordinated CLE and seminar attendance; typed forms and
telephone interaction. Prepared forms for travel reimbursement,
check requests and payment reimbursement.
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Salary
Requirement:
low to mid $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal Secretary Candidate #12
13. Insurance Defense Legal
Secretary
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Practice
areas: Insurance Defense Litigation
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Responsibilities: Responsibilities have included daily Dictation, opening/closing files,
entering time, daily communication with clients, maintaining
calendars, scheduling depositions, scheduling mediations,
requesting medical records, organization of files. Prepared
motions, discovery, and correspondence.
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Software/Skills:
Word 2000; Word Perfect 8.0; Dictaphone; Quicken; Tabs; Orion;
Timeslips; Outlook
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Salary
Requirement:
mid to high $40s
Please email me the resume for Legal Secretary Candidate #13
14. Intellectual
Property Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Intellectual Property
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Education/Certifications:
BA in Legal Studies
w/Minor in American Studies
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Responsibilities:
Currently supports
3 in the collection, research, preparation, and filing of patent
applications filed with the Patent and Trademark Office as it
relates to the prosecution/successful issuance of patents,
trademarks and copyrights for our clients. Review attorneys’
daily docket to keep them apprised of upcoming dates/deadlines.
Compose, draft, and finalize client reporting letters, forward
client communications as necessary. Communicate with clients,
foreign associates and vendors as necessary. Prepare attorney
expense reports, itineraries, and/or request reimbursement. Edit
attorneys’ monthly pro formas.
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Software/Skills:
Microsoft Word XP, DOCS
Open, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, iManage, DTE, Elite,
GroupWise, Mac O/S, Lotus; typing speed – between 80 - 110 WPM
w/accuracy; excellent proofreading, composition, and grammatical
skills; word processing; organizational skills; communication
skills
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Salary
Requirement:
low to mid $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal Secretary Candidate #14
15. Intellectual
Property Legal Secretary
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Practice
areas:
Intellectual Property
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Education/Certifications:
BA - Journalism and
Mass Communications - Public Relations; History minor,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Responsibilities:
Supported high
volume partner and 2 senior associates with
Patent prosecution
(Biotechnology, Mechanical and Electrical) and Trademark
applications. Assisted Marketing Department in preparation of
client-specific marketing materials. Frequent interaction with
clients. Back-up Floor Coordinator for IP Department. Assisted
Hiring Committee in planning and participating in Summer
Associate Weekend trip.
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Software/Skills:
Microsoft Office Suite
(Word, Excel); PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Photo
Editor; Adobe Photoshop, Chem. Draw, Visio 2000, Elite
Billing/Records System
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Salary
Requirement:
high $40s to mid $50s
Please email me the resume for Legal Secretary Candidate #15
