Nakia Shields
Duncanville,TX
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys
Irving, TX
06.2025 - Current
- Interact daily with assigned clientele and Potential New Clients (PNC) to understand their needs
- Communicate daily with my assigned attorney using multiple mediums (i.e. Email, written reports, one on one presentation, etc.) to address any case building, property damage, or case settling issues and direction
- Obtain police reports from various police agencies
- Set up auto Liability, Uninsured (UM), Underinsured (UIM), and Personal Injury Protection (PIP)/Medical Payment (Med Pay) claims daily
- Ensure clientele are receiving medical treatment if necessary and proper policies are being followed
- Handle clientele complaint issues, requests, and demands accordingly
- Resolve client’s property damage issues providing client with their respective options
- File management encompassing keeping files organized and filing mail/faxes daily
CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATOR
Armor Defense, Inc.
Plano, TX
10.2018 - 11.2024
- Managed the contract lifecycle management program via Salesforce
- Assist with identifying vendor risks for high-risk vendors or contract issues, as needed
- Performed
- Procured company vendors (reviewed and approved contracts, invoices, etc. via Salesforce)
- Maintained company’s document repository database of over 400 customer and vendor contracts
- Responsible for corporate governance state filings (company registrations in specific states, annual reports, officer demographics, etc.)
- Provide corporate maintenance (formations, dissolutions, annual reports, etc.)
- Maintained all legal records and contracts filing system
- Generated monthly vendor contract reports and met with company stakeholders on renewing/expiring contracts
- Respond to compliance audits, including PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and financial/ transactional audits
- Assist with contractor on-boarding and ongoing internal access
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Fossil Group, Inc. (via Robert Half Legal)
Richardson, TX
04.2014 - 04.2018
- Managed Fossil’s e-billing processing tool, CounselLink (processed invoices, managed monthly accruals, tracked company spend, etc.)
- Performed extensive research regarding payment issues
- Developed a filing system and maintained files for Legal department
- Prepared authorization letters for global manufacturing and shipping departments
- Prepared license agreement files
- Maintained travel schedule for members of the Board of Directors
- Updated HCue with entity demographics
- Prepped Corporate books, organized arrangements, and assisted with the quarterly Board of Director’s meetings and Annual Shareholders meeting
- Point of contact for Board of Directors to place product orders
- Scheduled meetings/events, conference rooms, etc.
- Order supplies for Legal department
- Assist corporate, intellectual property and employment lawyers and paralegals with ad hoc tasks
LEGAL FILE CLERK
Hunton & Williams, LLC
Dallas, TX
11.2004 - 03.2013
- Created/managed filing system for the Labor & Employment department
- Prepared closed files for submission to the Records department
- Assisted attorneys and paralegals for trial preparation
- Trained incoming file clerks on filing processes
LEGAL FILE CLERK / CASE CLERK
Strasburger & Price, LLP
Dallas, TX
03.1999 - 10.2004
- Set up case dockets with district courts
- Maintained large asbestos-related files
- Prepared closed files for routing to Records department
- Retrieved all closed files from Archives
- Pulled invoice documentation (backup) for accounting dept.
- Assisted Accounts Payable dept. with research invoice archival
- Prepared attorney’s monthly financial statements
- Organized and maintained files for accounting department
Timeline
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys
06.2025 - Current
CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATOR
Armor Defense, Inc.
10.2018 - 11.2024
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Fossil Group, Inc. (via Robert Half Legal)
04.2014 - 04.2018
LEGAL FILE CLERK
Hunton & Williams, LLC
11.2004 - 03.2013
LEGAL FILE CLERK / CASE CLERK
Strasburger & Price, LLP
03.1999 - 10.2004