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I have 35+ years of legal experience working for national and international firms throughout my career. I am able to prepare letters and emails, assist in compiling legal documents to submit to court, maintaining and organizing schedules and appointments, organizing travel arrangements, preparing invoices to clients, transcribing of dictated documents.

 

Experience

Legal Assistant

  •  Parlee LLP
  •  Nov 2020 - Sep 2021

Legal assistant in the Insurance Defence Group. Assisting 2 associates in preparing legal documents for submissions to court, preparing draft correspondence to counsel and/or clients, liaising with the Insured to obtain documents, upload all documents into client portal for their information, scheduling of appointments/court dates, preparation of monthly invoices and general administrative duties.

Legal Assistant

  •  Miller Thomson LLP
  •  Mar 2018 - Jul 2020

Assistant to the equity partner in the construction and commercial litigation department. My role consists of daily legal administrative responsibilities, arranging numerous travel arrangements, organizing internal legal education discussions for the construction and litigation group in both the Alberta and Saskatchewan offices on a monthly basis. I was tasked in sourcing lawyers from these two different departments to present on case topics for discussions at these internal meetings. I assisted in conducting CanLii searches in preparing for meetings. I also organize the partner's founding Legal Forum club monthly meetings. This partner is also a mediator and an arbitrator. As such I assisted in scheduling mediation or arbitration for the counsel and parties, preapraing of Directives and preparing mediation/arbitration binders for review and reference.