Sisceley Banks
Farmington Hills,MI
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Legal Assistant
BOWEN, RADABAUGH & MILTON, P.C.
11.2022 - Current
- Transcribing electronic dictations, calendaring scheduling order dates and depositions, reviewing circuit court and district court dockets, e-filing general pleadings, motions and appeal briefs, preparing deposition notices, scheduling court reporters, coordinating mediation and facilitation dates, drafting discovery shell responses and releases.
Legal Assistant
FREDERIC M. ROSEN, P.C.
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Managed calendaring for office attorneys using Outlook for Circuit Court cases, drafted pleadings, discovery responses, motions, open new cases through electronic filing portals, managed scheduling of depositions, and mail sorting, scanning and saving, interviewed new potential client intakes, drafted memos of case updates and answered phones.
Legal Assistant
THE SAM BERNSTEIN LAW FIRM
01.2020 - 01.2020
- Managed calendaring for office attorney using Outlook for circuit and district court cases, drafted response pleadings, discovery responses, motions, initiated new case setups through electronic filing portals, scheduled deposition dates, reviewed discovery responses with clients, drafted disbursements for settlements, and mail sorting and scanning.
Legal Assistant
FINK BRESSACK
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Managed calendaring for office attorneys using Outlook for circuit, district, and court of appeal cases, researched court procedures, summarized deposition transcripts, electronic filing for pleadings using the MiFile system, drafted discovery responses, organized and prepared trial documents, and answered phones.
Administrative Assistant
LAW OFFICES OF CHRISTINE GREIG (Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.)
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Managed calendaring for all of the office attorneys through multi-database systems for circuit and district court cases, process all of electronic and non-electronic incoming and outgoing mail, generate expense reports for attorney reimbursement, prepare motion and case evaluation checks, special calendaring for motions, depositions, settlement and pre-trial conferences, trial notices, scheduling order dates, and confirm deposition dates.
Office Assistant
OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, PLLC
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Employment Litigation assistant to associates, shareholders, secretaries, and paralegals for drafting and proofreading appearances, motions and supporting briefs, orders, appeal briefs, deposition notices and organized miscellaneous discovery binders, scheduled deposition dates, entered case docketing, open new litigation matters, transcribed witness interview memorandums, entered weekly timesheets and attorney expenses, processed and generated proformas and invoices, formatted extensive documents, proofread white pages to seminar material and client company manuals, managed office inventory, managed firms promotional products, and proofread PowerPoint presentations for special webinars.
Administrative Assistant
AFFINIA GROUP INC.
01.2005 - 01.2010
- Served as backup legal assistant to the Legal Departments’ Litigation Director
- Prepared legal correspondence, summarized new claims, organized and prepared discovery documents, performed light legal research, handled invoices from outside counsel, translated Spanish documents, scheduled court dates, and handled special projects
- Managed department file inventory, designed Affinia Group Inc
- Record Retention Schedule, designed multiple templates for department file documents, managed the process of incoming invoices and debit memos, collected and updated corporate annual entity documents and notarized special documents.
Education
Bachelors of Science in Legal Assisting -
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI04.2001
Skills
- MS Outlook 2020
- MS Word 2020
- MS Excel 2020
- MS PowerPoint 2020
- Adobe Acrobat Professional 70
- Nuance PDF
- Compulaw (docketing database)
- Best Authority (TOA)
- Extensity (expense entries)
- Elite Webview (time sheet and file records entry)
- Chrome River (invoice and expense database)
- Elite (proformas, billing ledgers, and records management database)
- Ultipro
- LDM (electronic repository)
- Legal Tracker (matter and invoice tracking)
- Oracle (view payment information of invoices)
- Worldox
- PracticeMaster
Reading and problem solving
It's important to stay current within the legal profession. When it comes to important dates and last minute changes, I try my best to get the desired outcome.
Timeline
Legal Assistant
BOWEN, RADABAUGH & MILTON, P.C.
11.2022 - Current
Legal Assistant
FREDERIC M. ROSEN, P.C.
01.2020 - 01.2021
Legal Assistant
THE SAM BERNSTEIN LAW FIRM
01.2020 - 01.2020
Legal Assistant
FINK BRESSACK
01.2018 - 01.2019
Administrative Assistant
LAW OFFICES OF CHRISTINE GREIG (Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.)
01.2016 - 01.2018
Office Assistant
OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, PLLC
01.2011 - 01.2015
Administrative Assistant
AFFINIA GROUP INC.
01.2005 - 01.2010
Bachelors of Science in Legal Assisting -
Eastern Michigan University
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