Experience

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  The San Diego County Bar Association

  • San Diego, California

  • Legal Assistant

    • Jun 2007 - Present
    • San Diego, California

    Transcribe 911 phone calls/jail intercepted calls. Summarize legal documents such as police reports, reporters/clerk's transcripts, officer notes, trial notes, and any and all trial documents to help defense counsel prepare for trial. Prepare possible outlines for multiple-defendant cases (including one case with 33 defendants) for individual included attorneys that outlined only their defendant. In-depth communication with lead attorney and/or multiple attorneys regarding their individual clients. Visits to county jail to interview defendants to go over evidence.

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  Law Office of Greg Rickard

  • El Cajon, California

  • Office Manager/Legal Assistant

    • Oct 1997 - Present
    • El Cajon, California

    Run office for sole practitioner. Pay bills, answer and filter emails, calendar appointments (personal and legal), research case law, help in drafting of briefs (attorney is hand disabled and cannot type, therefore assistant must do all typing for him). Research is done in Lexis. Adept in using Quicken to reconcile all bank and credit card accounts. Communicate with research group members when needed. Record-keeping. Scanning and data management. Some IT and data backup management skills. Daily docket checks in state and federal courts. Knowledge of filing of briefs and other related legal documents in multiple courts and jurisdictions. Use of word processing skills exemplary, as well as advanced spreadsheet use (including complicated formula creation).

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  Moss Pite & Duncan, LLP

  • El Cajon, California

  • Word Processing Specialist/Jr. Database Administrator

    • Jul 2001 - Feb 2006
    • El Cajon, California

    Processed bankruptcy documents for multiple states. Implemented a new program called ProLaw, which included creating "packages" of required documents for each state represented by the attorneys working for the firm. These documents either needed to be created from scratch to match court documents from the court website, or were fillable forms that needed their fields to pull from fields I needed to create in a special tab in ProLaw. Trained coworkers in my department. Also worked as a Junior Database Administrator in charge of weekly backups of the firm's data, which I stored off-site. Helped any user in the building who may have a problem with a hardware or software issue. Also helped in the regular rotation of installing and updating new computers for the firm.

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  Grossmont Union High School District

  • Grossmont High School; La Mesa, California

  • English Department Assistant

    • Aug 1999 - Jun 2001
    • Grossmont High School; La Mesa, California

    Assisted the 10+ English teachers in the English Department. Graded papers, ordered supplies, maintained supplies, sometimes watched classroom in emergency situations. In charge of finances and distribution of monies for supplies and book ordering. Had to repair or replace books for classroom use. Often ran errands for teachers across campus. Answered phone calls and helped schedule teachers to fill in for other teachers in emergency situations.