Experience

Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Secretary

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  Provide support to two insurance defense litigation attorneys. Primarily handle insurance coverage disputes and third-party coverage issues. Duties include general office work, typing pleadings and drafting correspondence, interfacing with sophisticated clientele, calendar management and deadlines, filing documents with the Courts appropriately (State and Federal level, including Louisiana and Texas suits), making travel arrangements, digital document management, coordination with multiple entities to get tasks scheduled, and attorney time entry. Know and understand Court procedures.



Naquin & Ward

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Front Office Manager + Receptionist + Bookkeeper

  • Jan 2012 - Nov 2016

  Plaintiff personal injury, maritime, medical malpractice, and real estate office. Primary duties include greeting clients, answering multiple phone lines, ordering supplies, taking messages and directing calls, making copies, scanning documents, typing legal documents and correspondence, trial project preparation, and general office work and management. Additionally, ordering medical records, organizing medical records for personal injury case purposes, medical chronology preparation, client relations, deposition scheduling, and assisted with other various overflow work from legal secretaries. Responsible for Human Resource duties, overall office AR/AP, payroll management, deposits, and taxes with Quickbooks. Managed four separate accounts and generated settlement disbursements. Reason for leaving: Had second child and stayed home.



Environmental Labworks, Inc

• Marlboro, New York

• Laboratory Technician

  • Jun 2008 - Jul 2011

  Potable and non-potable water laboratory analysis. Responsible for performing many potable and non-potable water wet-lab analyses. Able to regularly duplicate work and consistently pass state mandated proficiency tests, follow laboratory protocols, as well as familiarity with handling concentrated acids and other hazardous materials. Additional duties included keeping work area clean, customer service and problem-solving skills, billing using Quickbooks, receiving incoming samples from clients and preparing samples for shipment to outgoing laboratories and training of new employees. Reason for leaving employment was my husband graduated from school on July 11, 2011 and we moved back to Louisiana.



The Falcon Music & Arts

• Marlboro, New York

• Bartender

  • Nov 2009 - Jul 2010

  Mixed ingredients to prepare cocktails and other drinks; provide beer, liquor and wine to both bar patrons and food servers; provide food-service to bar patrons. Excellent customer service and cash handling skills; able to keep tabs in correct amounts and liable for cash and inventory for the time worked. Always checked ID's to make sure patrons met state age requirements for alcohol consumption. Bartending duties included all aspects of the bar - opening and closing of the bar, making and mixing drinks, creating unique drinks and a drink menu, prep garnishes for service, all beverage and bar supply (liquor, beer, wine, sodas) ordering and receiving, accountability with cash money, regular cleaning of bar area and coolers.



Southern Photo Lab

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• General Manager

  • Sep 1999 - May 2008

  General Manager: Responsibilities included accounting tasks and bank deposits, inventory of crucial items needed for production, website management, eBay sales (listing and completing sales; prepping packages for shipping). Took part in product quality control, customer relations and sales calls. Advanced skills in MS Word, Excel, Access and Adobe Photoshop. ♣ Reason for leaving: Husband got into school in New York; starting on May 28, 2008. Sales Associate: Duties included answering phones and documenting customer orders, invoicing customers and in-store sales, general store front inventory and ordering. Photographic Printer / Photoshop Editor: Responsible for photo restorations, editing requests, online photo order receiving, quality control, mixing of photographic chemistry and machine maintenance. Advanced skills in Photoshop and can edit images properly and faster than anyone you have ever seen.