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Objective Experienced Legal Assistant with excellent office management and client relation skills seeking a position an Administrative position. Skills • Detail oriented with excellent research, investigative and reporting skills. Exercise independent judgment and decision making abilities and a high level of confidentiality. • • Windows • Microsoft Office, including word, excel and access • Microsoft Outlook • Lexis/Nexis • Time Slip • Typing approximately 80 wpm • Experience McCall, Williams, Wilmot & Powell, LLC 1101 Valley Drive, Albany, Georgia Legal Assistant January, 2008 through July, 2008. • Directed day-to-day office operations in a successful law office. As legal assistant, I oversaw all aspects of the law office, including, manage client files (opening and closing files, maintaining client databases, and attorney billing), oral and written communication with clients, opposing attorneys, court officials, experts, and the general public, maintain the court docket and office calendar, draft legal documents according to the attorney's instructions and client information sheets, pre-trial preparation (discovery preparation and responses, indexing exhibits, maintaining notebooks), answering phones, and other duties as assigned. • South Georgia Cotton, LLC 1375 Highway 195, Leesburg, Georgia Office Manager August, 2003 through December, 2007 • General Office duties which included interviewing potential new farmers/growers. Handling financing of farmers. Payroll, workers' compensation claims, entering data, marketing cotton and handling transactions regarding the selling of the cotton. • City of Albany (Code Enforcement) 110 Pine Avenue, Albany, Georgia Office Manager December, 2001 through August, 2003 • Work with the public to enforce the city codes. Provide telephone support and on-site support for the public regarding Code Enforcement violations. Typing correspondence, entering summons into municipal court files and organizing warrants. Attend city court. Enter and update municipal court files before and after court. Created and modify custom spreadsheets. Maintain a filing system and timesheets. Contact the officers/inspectors via radio regarding complaints and calls which come in. • William J. Murray, Attorney at Law Lee Street, Americus, Georgia Legal Secretary June, 1994 through December, 2001. • Handled all the workers' compensation claims in this office from start to finish. All of which included, scheduling depositions, hearings, negotiating with insurance companies and assisting clients. I attended hearings and depositins with the attorney. Also, when needed I would assist with Criminal, Family Law and Personal Injury cases. • • Education Tri-County High School Buena Vista, Georgia High School Diploma June, 1987 South Georgia Technical Institute Americus, Georgia Information and Office Technology, Legal Secretary 1993 Darton College Albany, Georgia Associate of Applied Science in Criminal Justice 2004