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LEGAL ASSISTANT/PARALEGAL
Skills
  • Office administration
  • Customer and client relations
  • Proficient in MS Office
  • Excellent Investigative and Reporting Skills
  • Legal terminology
  • Complex Scheduling
  • Multi-line phone proficiency
  • 71 WPM typing speed
  • Document preparation
  • Litigation Support
  • Confidentiality Understanding
  • Organization
Professional Summary

Organized and dependable with proven track record of providing a quality work environment, exceptional administrative support and customer service in fast-paced environments. Self-motivated work ethic dedicated to maintaining professional standards, ethical work habits, and motivated to continually improve and extend personal skills and knowledge to attain increased responsibility and opportunities for professional growth. Excellent organizational skills to excel under deadline and workload pressures. Highly skilled at multitasking and managing highly confidential information with professionalism and integrity.

Work Experience
Legal Assistant/Paralegal, 03/2017 to 03/2020
Whiting Petroleum Corporation - Watford City , ND
  • Performed general office duties, including answering multi-line phones, routing calls, messages and greeting visitors. Managed office inventory by restocking supplies and placing purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels.
  • Managed all administrative tasks for firm, day-to-day legal activities such as revising and finalizing letters, briefs, and memos, reviewed case files and reported case progress to clients
  • Maintained litigation docket and calendars, noting deadlines for responsive pleadings, motions and other important deadlines, handled complex scheduling for appointments, court appearances and depositions, including service of subpoenas
  • Developed positive working relationship with courts, clients, law enforcement members and attorneys
  • Assisted litigation attorney with research, depositions, trial preparation, discovery and document drafts for court submittal
  • Prepared for trials by conducting legal research and drafting pleadings, prepared interrogatories, request for admissions, requests for production of documents and requests for examination or inspection
  • Prepared case summaries for mediation conferences, prepared for trials by organizing exhibits and other key evidence
  • Handled electronic court filings, coordinated court activities and filed court documents and legal pleadings with court clerk on behalf of attorneys
  • Managed accounts and client records observing confidentiality and extreme discretion
  • Investigated facts and law of cases, using pertinent sources to determine causes of action and to prepare cases
  • Compiled documentation, ensuring accuracy and detail for legal briefs, responses to opposing counsel, motions to court and trial exhibits
  • Assisted with client interviews and took meticulous notes for inclusion in reports
Legal Assistant/Paralegal, 09/2010 to 03/2017
Whiting Petroleum Corporation - Denver , CO
  • Performed general office duties, including answering multi-line phones, routing calls, messages and greeting visitors. Managed office inventory by restocking supplies and placing purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels.
  • Managed all administrative tasks for firm, day-to-day legal activities such as revising and finalizing letters, briefs, and memos, reviewed case files and reported case progress to clients
  • Maintained litigation docket and calendars, noting deadlines for responsive pleadings, motions and other important deadlines, handled complex scheduling for appointments, court appearances and depositions, including service of subpoenas
  • Maintained computer and physical filing systems
  • Managed accounts and client records observing confidentiality and extreme discretion
  • Assisted litigation attorneys with research, depositions, trial preparation, discovery and document drafts for court submittal
  • Prepared for trials by conducting legal research and drafting pleadings, prepared interrogatories, request for admissions, requests for production of documents and requests for examination or inspection
  • Prepared case summaries for mediation conferences, prepared for trials by organizing exhibits and other key evidence
  • Handled electronic court filings, coordinated court activities and filed court documents and legal pleadings with court clerk on behalf of attorneys
  • Investigated facts and law of cases, using pertinent sources to determine causes of action and to prepare cases
  • Compiled documentation, ensuring accuracy and detail for legal briefs, responses to opposing counsel, motions to court and trial exhibits
  • Assisted with client interviews and took meticulous notes for inclusion in reports
  • Developed positive working relationship with courts, clients, law enforcement members and attorneys
  • Completed bi-weekly payroll for four employees
  • Performed billing, and collection for office
  • Tracked and recorded expenses and reconciled accounts to maintain accurate, current and compliant financial records
Legal Assistant/Paralegal, 05/2005 to 08/2010
Whiting Petroleum Corporation - Watford City , ND
  • Performed general office duties, including answering multi-line phones, routing calls, messages and greeting visitors. Managed office inventory by restocking supplies and placing purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels.
  • Managed all administrative tasks for firm, day-to-day legal activities such as revising and finalizing letters, briefs, and memos, reviewed case files and reported case progress to clients
  • Maintained litigation docket and calendars, noting deadlines for responsive pleadings, motions and other important deadlines, handled complex scheduling for appointments, court appearances and depositions, including service of subpoenas
  • Developed positive working relationship with courts, clients, law enforcement members and attorneys
  • Assisted litigation attorney with research, depositions, trial preparation, discovery and document drafts for court submittal
  • Prepared for trials by conducting legal research and drafting pleadings, prepared interrogatories, request for admissions, requests for production of documents and requests for examination or inspection
  • Prepared case summaries for mediation conferences, prepared for trials by organizing exhibits and other key evidence
  • Handled electronic court filings, coordinated court activities and filed court documents and legal pleadings with court clerk on behalf of attorneys
  • Managed accounts and client records observing confidentiality and extreme discretion
  • Investigated facts and law of cases, using pertinent sources to determine causes of action and to prepare cases
  • Compiled documentation, ensuring accuracy and detail for legal briefs, responses to opposing counsel, motions to court and trial exhibits
  • Assisted with client interviews and took meticulous notes for inclusion in reports
Education
High School Diploma: : 1998Middleton High School - City
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School Attended

  • Middleton High School

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