Ashley Stanton
Fairfield,NJ
Summary
I value partnering with ambitious individuals who aim to achieve more than just meeting the basic requirements of their roles. Committed to continuously enhancing and reinforcing the organization and capabilities. A resourceful and seasoned worker with extensive experience in customer service, travel coordination, and file management. A detail-oriented team player with robust organizational skills. Capable of handling numerous projects simultaneously with a high level of precision. In addition to corporate, litigation, and compliance paralegal at the most recent position. I excelled in personal injury paralegal work for the last 5 years and have experience as an executive assistant managing administrative tasks.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Assistant, Corporate, Litigation & Compliance Paralegal
Avaya, LLC
09.2023 - 03.2024
- Organize and prepare for meetings, including gathering documents and attending to logistics of meetings
- Assistance with the budget process, including purchase order creation and management
- Participating and working in collaboration with a wide variety of staff members on special assignments and projects
- Coordinate travel arrangements and expenses for the Legal Leadership Team
- Managing matter creation, monitoring status, and report creation using Legal Tracker
- Handling of external communications, both verbal and written correspondence, from legal counsel, court officials, regulators, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders
- Preparing responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries, making referrals to appropriate staff as required serving as focal point for follow-up actions
- Support preparation, execution distribution of secretary's certificates and other varied certificates and attestations re officers, addresses, ownership, etc
- Notarize documents as needed and assist in obtaining apostilles when necessary
- Supporting litigation and pre-litigation matters from intake to settlement
- Management of legal hold process
- Provide scheduling assistance to the Legal Leadership Team, as needed
- Assist with department or headquarters-wide activities.
Personal Injury Paralegal
Ansa Assuncao, LLC
04.2023 - 10.2023
- I worked on document preparation and review, case planning, development, and management
- The firm worked on both plaintiff and defence tasks
- I conducted first client interviews while scheduling Dep and Arb
- Drafting legal documents and e-filing in many counties
- Admin duties include faxing, emailing, and mailing requests for checks, medical records, bills, and police reports
- Litigation Preparation
- Serving legal documents to several counties
- Important dates and deadlines should be scheduled.
Personal Injury Paralegal
Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn, Novello & Shorr
01.2022 - 04.2023
- Managing several attorney calendars
- Drafting Disc & RFPD
- Filing complaints, scheduling DEP and ARBs
- Follow-up with attorneys, adjusters, and clients
- Verification of Balances, SODs, DocuSign, Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Word Perfect.
- Improved communication between clients and attorneys by maintaining clear channels of correspondence and promptly addressing concerns.
- Developed strong relationships with medical providers, streamlining record requests and expediting treatment information for cases.
- Supported trial preparation efforts by creating exhibits, witness lists, and chronologies of events for use in court proceedings.
- Demonstrated adaptability by successfully handling a diverse range of personal injury cases, including motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, and medical malpractice claims.
Lemon Law Paralegal
Kimmel and Silverman, PC
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Drafting legal documents
- Client communication includes case status calls, emails, and updates
- Schedule inspections
- Correspondence with opposing counsel
- Reports to the attorneys
- Explaining litigation and arbitration to clients
- Filing and logging private documents
- Client correspondence, including calls
- Organize and label client files
- Proficient in using Time Matters
- Proficient with Outlook software.
Case Manager
Lundy Law
03.2018 - 01.2021
- Drafting legal documents
- Client communication includes case status calls, emails, and updates
- Schedule inspections
- Correspondence with opposing counsel
- Reports to the attorneys
- Explaining litigation and arbitration to clients
- Filing and logging private documents
- Client correspondence, including calls
- Organize and label client files
- Proficient in using Time Matters
- Proficient with Outlook software.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminology/Justice Studies
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA09.2025
Associate of Applied Science - Paralegal Studies
Delaware County Community College
Media, PA03.2023
Skills
- Strong Problem Solver
- Executive Support
- Videoconference preparation
- Meeting planning
- Report Development
- Travel Arrangement Coordination
- Honest and Dependable
- Legal administrative support
- Documentation and Recordkeeping
- NetDocs, CasePeer, Concur, Clio, Lexis Advance, Litify, Outlook, SharePoint, Word Perfect, Time Matters Excel etc
Certification
- Associates in Paralegal Studies
- Certified Notary Public
Awards
- National Technical Honor Society
- Achieving a 3.5 GPA
Timeline
Executive Assistant, Corporate, Litigation & Compliance Paralegal
Avaya, LLC
09.2023 - 03.2024
Personal Injury Paralegal
Ansa Assuncao, LLC
04.2023 - 10.2023
Personal Injury Paralegal
Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn, Novello & Shorr
01.2022 - 04.2023
Lemon Law Paralegal
Kimmel and Silverman, PC
01.2021 - 01.2022
Case Manager
Lundy Law
03.2018 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Science - Criminology/Justice Studies
Drexel University
Associate of Applied Science - Paralegal Studies
Delaware County Community College
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