Kimberly McAndrew
Northridge,USA
Summary
Enthusiastic Paralegal/Executive Assistant with expertise in anticipating professional needs and proactively identifying and resolving problems. Bringing proven to promote organization and availability through effective schedule development. Offering keen attention to detail and strong decision-making skills to manage multiple, concurrent tasks. Self-motivated work ethic to perform effectively in independent or team environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Secretary V
The Walt Disney Company
09.2023 - 10.2024
- Legal Secretary to Assistant Chief Counsel, Two Principal Counselors, One Associate Principal Counsel and Two Counselors with 20th Century Fox TV Legal Affairs, for live-action and animated projects such as "The Simpsons", "9-1-1", "Tracker" and "Bob's Burgers"
- Seeing that all agreements, amendments, option letters and various legal and corporate documentation was shepherded through to full execution, as well as all internal distribution
- Organized and saved all documentation into NetDocs, a database and share drive used by the entire Disney company
- Redlined talent option letters and agreements
- Handled sensitive information discreetly, maintaining confidentiality when managing personnel files or financial data.
- Created a follow-up system to make sure that all my attorneys’ documentation was fully-executed in a timely manner
- Enter attorneys’ expenses into Concur SAP
- Answered multi-line phone system and enthusiastically greeted callers
- Scheduled appointments and conducted follow-up calls to clients
- Prepared professional correspondence, including memos, letters, and emails, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Managed executive calendars, scheduling appointments and meetings to optimize time management
Paralegal/ Legal Assistant
Discovery Communications
01.2018 - 11.2022
- Legal Assistant to VP, Senior Director and Two Directors, Business and Legal Affairs for Discovery, TLC, MotorTrend, Animal Planet and HGTV networks
- Seeing that all agreements, amendments, option letters and various legal documentation was shepherded through to full execution in a timely manner
- Reduced attorney workload by drafting routine legal documents such as talent option letters, license agreements, and rights options as well as corporate compliance documents
- Edited, redlined and proofread legal documents to verify accuracy
- Inputting and updating all information in the main Discovery Communications Database
- Created new entries for all talent in the database, including all option dates, payments, guarantees and any other important information
- Enter attorneys’ expenses into Concur SAP
- Improved document organization by implementing a comprehensive file management system for easy access to essential materials
Legal Assistant/ Paralegal
GRB Entertainment
01.2012 - 11.2017
- Paralegal for the General Counsel and Senior Counsel for GRB Entertainment, a production company that created and produced such shows as "Untold Stories of the ER" for Discovery Channel and the Emmy-Award winning series, "Intervention" for A&E
- Brought lack of Trademark protection to the attention of General Counsel and followed through with the filing
- Form and dissolve subsidiaries for the parent company
- File all copyrights for the company
- File all yearly maintenance paperwork for subsidiaries with the Secretary of State in the applicable state or the proper authority in Canada
- Maintain all corporate minute books
- Draft and execute all corporate annual minutes
- Track and maintain all corporate insurance policies
- Draft and redline contracts for development, production, international licensing agreements and acquisition agreements, Shepherd all contracts to full execution and calendar any and all due-dates
- Enter all contracts into Film Track, a web-based database system, to track license dates, territories and rights licensed
- Review episodes of new shows and note all legal and S&P issues to send to post-production
- Review and execute all Trade-out Agreements for the program, “Intervention"
- File room re-organization project, including hiring and supervising two workers to scan documents for storage in the legal drive and created a tracking system for same
- Created United States avails list of all titles from scratch (approximately 400 titles)
Education
Certificate - Paralegal Studies
California State University at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CABachelor of Arts - English
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, ARSkills
- Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Calendar management
- Multi-line phone systems
- Database administration
- Concur/SAP
- Adobe Acrobat
- Docusign
- GoogleDocs
- Schedule management
- CanvaPro
- File management
- Verbal and written communication
Pronouns
She/Her
Timeline
Secretary V
The Walt Disney Company
09.2023 - 10.2024
Paralegal/ Legal Assistant
Discovery Communications
01.2018 - 11.2022
Legal Assistant/ Paralegal
GRB Entertainment
01.2012 - 11.2017
Bachelor of Arts - English
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Certificate - Paralegal Studies
California State University at Los Angeles
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