Legal Secretary or Legal Assistant or Administrative Assistant

Mack Harrell 10 Lawrence Avenue West Orange, NJ 07052 Home Phone: 973-731-6720 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] t WORK HISTORY Thacher Proffitt & Wood, LLP, 1/07-2/09 Legal Secretary for two Partners and an Associate a Assisted Trusts and Estates Partner in preparation of tax returns, wills, trus ts, and correspondence, and in execution of trusts, wills, and agreements. a Answered telephones for attorneys as well as others in the section in a profes sional manner; took messages and forwarded calls to appropriate parties. a Arranged for transportation. a Entered attorney time and engagements in DTE. a Maintained calendars for assigned attorneys using MS Outlook and scheduled mee tings within parameters of attorneys' requirements. a Drafted and/or revised routine correspondence and documents. a Operated printers, facsimile machines, photocopying machines and pdf scanner. a Maintained skills necessary to function effectively and meet all expectations of my role, including the basic functions of our core technology tools. a Created new client matter accounts (conflict checks, intakes, retainer letter and file opening). a Maintained contact lists for client matters for assigned attorneys. a Revised documents (e.g., tax indemnity agreements, powers of attorney, etc.) f or tax Partner. a Prepared travel and expense reports and forwarded to accounts payable for proc essing. a Assisted with monthly billing including meeting Finance Department deadlines, photocopying, revising invoices and final preparation of invoices for mailing. a Provided coverage to other attorneys in section when assigned secretaries were out of office or when workflow required/permitted. a Designed a correspondence template and an invoice template for Trusts and Esta tes. Lerner David Littenberg Krumholtz & Mentlik, LLP, 2/05-1/07 Legal Secretary, Floating a Entered attorneysa time and engagements in DTE. a Answered telephones for attorneys as well as others in the section in a profes sional manner; took messages and forwarded calls to appropriate parties. a Arranged for transportation. a Using MS Outlook, maintained calendars for assigned attorneys and scheduled me etings per attorneys' requirements. a Drafted and/or revised routine correspondence and documents. a Operated office equipment such as printers, facsimile machines, photocopying m achines and pdf scanner. a Maintained skills necessary to function effectively and meet all expectations of my role, including the basic functions of our core technology tools. Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding (now Cozen O'Connor) 2/02-2/05 Legal Secretary to Of Counsel in commercial real estate a Assisted in commercial real estate closings. a Answered telephones for assigned attorney in a professional manner; took messa ges and forwarded calls to attorney. a Entered attorney time and engagements in DTE. a Drafted and/or revised routine correspondence and documents. a Operated printers, facsimile machines, photocopying machines. Quantum Staffing, Merlin Temps, The Affiliates; United Staffing Systems 4/01-2/0 2 Temporary legal secretary for various firms in New York City. Brauner Baron Rosenzweig & Klein LLP 2/00-2/01

Legal Secretary to two Partners in corporate law (mergers and acquisitions) a Revised documents and produced black-lined versions as required. Cravath Swaine & Moore 11/99-9/2000 Word Processing Operator in Word Processing Center a Revised documents and produced black-lined versions as required. SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS Personal Computer and Word Processing a Developed word processing application together with documentation which increa sed productivity of a busy outplacement office an estimated 50%. a Developed database application to track clients recently discharged from state mental hospital, resulting in 75% increase in report productivity. a Developed an application of WordPerfect resulting in a 30-day saving in paperw ork turnaround for intake processing in a busy mental health clinic. COMPUTER SKILLS Document Management a iManage a FileSite (with MS Outlook) a PCDocs a Soft Solutions a DocsOpen Document Comparison a CompareRite a WorkShare DeltaView Word Processing a MS Word 2003, 2007 a WordPerfect Time Entry a CMS Time Entry a DTE Time Entry E-mail a Lotus Notes a MS Outlook Internet a MS Internet Explorer a Mozilla Firefox EDUCATION M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan B.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas