Resume

Providing a full range of office services including telephone answering, diary management, digital printing and transcription typist typing of court transcripts, investigation reports, focus groups, financial interviews, minutes of meetings, general one on one interviews and university studies.

(Commenced in a job
share capacity moving
to full-time capacity on
1 July 2007 )

Duties:

• Participated in the rebranding of up to 7,000 precedents held in Firm precedent collection after Firm name change;
• Responsible for updating of Court Forms held in precedents collection (numbering in excess of 6,000 documents);
• Responsible for updating of Tribunal Forms held in precedents collection;
• Responsible for updating Firm Knowledge Bank collection (numbering in excess of 2,000 documents);
• Assist in the addition of new internal Firm precedents after approval by Precedents Lawyer;
• Responsible for preparation of Agenda for Team Meetings as well as taking minutes and preparing typed Minutes for distribution to Precedents Team;
• Responsible for answering Precedent queries from all staff where possible or arranging for appropriate Precedents Lawyer to answer any queries where necessary; and
• Responsible for all administration duties for the Precedents Team including but not limited to answering telephone queries, accounts payable, updating team leave calendar, travel and preparation of training manuals and materials for Firm staff precedent training.

Legal Support Secretarial Role within the State Rail Authority Legal Department.  During this time I acted in numerous positions to improve my skills.  The work was primarily workers’ compensation orientated.  The Legal Department was then privatised and the legal division largely wound up.  I really wanted to stay in the legal field and chose to move on to a legal company.

Typing of lengthy advices, Court documents and general correspondence.

Secretary to Senior Associate and Solicitor
Insurance Litigation

Typing of general correspondence, taking and dealing with client enquiries and dealing with solicitors and Counsel when required.

Wordprocessing Operator – Commercial Media

Typing of all lengthy documents and letters on behalf of the Commercial Media Group.

(Note: The Commercial Media Group left Phillips Fox and merged with Gilbert & Tobin and as part of the Team I had no option but to move with them.)

Typing of all lengthy documents and letters on behalf of the Commercial Media Group.

Litigation, Workers’ Compensation, Family Law and General Conveyancing

Duties:

• All general secretarial duties including typing of all general correspondence, Court documents, table documents and maintaining and updating database as well as dealing with clients, solicitors and barristers.
• Attending Court and instructing Counsel at Workers’ Compensation Hearings when required.
• All general secretarial duties including typing of all general correspondence, Court documents, table documents as well as dealing with clients, solicitors and barristers.

• Responsible for the implementation and updating of Open Practice accounts system including dealing with the system requirements and working closely with provider to install and get new system up and running.
• Responsible for monitoring of general ledger accounts for the Parramatta Office as well as payment of Creditors, Bank Reconciliations, Accounts Payable and end of Financial Year rollover (3 years).
• Assisted partner in the regular updating of LawDocs Precedents.
• Responsible for preparation and implementation of Firm precedents across Workers’ Compensation, Family Law and Conveyancing practices.