Paralegal/legal secretary Resume
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CHRISTINA W. DAVIS
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Locust Street, Apt. , Philadelphia, PA
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PROFILE
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Highly skilled Paralegal/Legal Assistant/Legal Secretary with over years experience providing a full range of legal assistance and secretarial service with working knowledge of current computer operating systems and expertise in:
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- Filing pleadings, motions with Courts
- Preparing cases up to and through trial and settlement
- Preparing and organizing Discovery
- Maintaining medical records
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CAREER EXPERIENCE
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Legal Search (temp assignments), Philadelphia, PA
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Performed Paralegal work for Mass Tort Department of large law firm.
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- Completed client intakes by phone leading to signing up clients
- Inputted client data into database
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Performed Legal Secretarial and Paralegal office procedures at Estates, Trusts law firm.
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- Transcribed correspondence and legal documents w/ dictaphone
- Answered Incoming and made outgoing calls, .
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Galfand Berger, LLP, Philadelphia –
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Paralegal
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Performed Paralegal work for Plaintiff Personal Injury firm:
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- Prepared and filed pleadings and motions electronically and by
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mail in state, county, and federal courts to settlement of cases
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- Served pleadings
- Answered, propounded and served discovery
- Reinstated/reissued writs and complaints
- Obtained, organized, updated and summarized medical records
- Drafted correspondence
- Submitted check requests to pay medical record fees
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The Beasley Firm, LLC, Philadelphia –
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Performed legal work for this Plaintiff Personal Injury firm in their departments of Mass tort cases including Baycol, Vioxx, Zyprexa, Ephedra, Asbestos, Welding Rods, Celebrex/ Bextra and Medical Malpractice and Product Liability cases
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- Prepared and filed pleadings and motions in state, county and
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federal court electronically and by mail to settlement of cases.
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- Assisted with document management, file management, and
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computer database
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- Managed correspondence and mass mailings
- Emailed with lawyers, their staff, and firm clients
- Prepared and served discovery
- Prepared and interviewed clients for Plaintiff Fact Sheets
- Requested medical records and submitted payments for records
- Pulled costs for cases as required by attorney
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Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia -
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Paralegal
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Performed paralegal work at this plaintiff personal injury law firm
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- Contacted clients by phone in preparation for mass tort litigation
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of Baycol that had been recalled by FDA to settling of cases
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- Requested and reviewed client medical records
- Updated client computer database
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Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young -
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Philadelphia, PA Litigation Paralegal
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Performed paralegal work at this large major commercial law firm in their copyright infringement and asbestos defense departments included:
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- Managed document production during discovery phase of large
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commercial business cases leading to settlement of cases
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- Created indexes of various document productions defense cases
- Created deposition digests
- Created and served subpoenas and complaints (pleadings)
- Maintained document production database on a daily basis
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American Renaissance Paper/American Project Development Corp.
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Bala Cynwyd, PA Administrative Assistant
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Worked in secretarial assistant capacity mainly for the head of the companies. Companies involved selling recycled paper and power plant management.
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- Phoned and emailed clients
- Maintained computer databases for finances and selling of
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recycled paper.
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- Received and billed client orders.
- Accomplished accounting/bookkeeping tasks.
- Assisted with office functions such as filing and copying.
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TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
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Proficient in Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Access, Needles, Time Matters, Worldox. Electronic court filing
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EDUCATION
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Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
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Bachelor of Arts (GPA .)
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Main Line Paralegal Institute, part of American Center
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for Technical Arts and Sciences, Malvern, PA
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Comprehensive Paralegal Certificate Program (GPA .)
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