Lisa M.

Ellis
2601 Park Center Drive, Apt. 603C, Alexandria, VA 22302 703-379-0481 le10b42f4@
westpost.net

Professional
Experience Legal Secretary
Nov. 2006 - July 2010 ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER, Washington, DC
* Assistant to Senior Partner (Legal Ethics)
* Assist 2 Attorneys (Civil Litigation)
* Assist 2 Attorneys with Bankruptcy Litigation
* Maintain and prepare travel and expense reports
* Maintain daily billing/time report
* Maintain basic legal/administrative files, court filings and editing documents
* Licensed Notary Public
* Experienced in Court document filing using PACER/ECS
Legal Secretary/Assistant
Oct. 2003 - Aug. 2006 WHITE & CASE LLP, Washington, DC
* Assistant to Senior Partner and Associates in the Antitrust Group
* Responsible for maintaining daily/monthly calendar for numerous seminars/speec
hes and client development meetings both locally and nationally
* Responsible for ensuring articles and bios were updated for numerous client de
velopment presentations and speeches
* Maintained, organized and updated large client contact binder and numerous con
tact folders in the Outlook program
* Coordinated brown-bag speeches and seminars
* Coordinated numerous travel reservations and prepared extensive and numerous t
ravel and expense reports
Legal Secretary/Assistant
Jan. 2002 - Oct. 2003 DECHERT LLP, Washington, DC
* Assistant to Senior Partner and Associates in the Antitrust/General Litigation
and Financial Services Departments
* Responsible for editing/revising various correspondence and legal documents
* Maintained/organized and coordinated with Records Department of numerous clien
t and attorney working files
* Coordinated seminars, meetings and extensive travel arrangements
* Prepared travel expense reports and maintained attorney personal expenses in t
he Minisoft Software
* Input and maintained attorney billable time using the Carpe Diem program
* Maintained client contact information using Microsoft Outlook
*
Legal Secretary/Assistant
Nov. 1999 - Nov. 2001 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, Washington, DC
* Assisted Of Counsel and several Associates in the Investment Management Group
* Responsible for edits and revisions of various documents for SEC filings
* Maintained various client/attorney work files
* Fulfilled other basis secretarial duties
Legal Secretary/Assistant
May 1993 - Nov. 1999 CROWELL & MORING, Washington, DC
* Assistant to several Associates specializing in various areas of law
* Planned and managed legal document filings
* Responsible for extensive document production data entry using the Summation p
rogram
Legal Secretary/Assistant (Bankruptcy Litigation)
Sept. 1991 - May 1993 ZUCKERMAN, SPAEDER et al., Washington, DC
* Assistant to several Associates in the Bankruptcy and Business Group
* Responsible for completion of various time-sensitive schedules to be filed wit
h various local courts in the DC/MD/VA areas
Legal Secretary/Assistant (Litigation)
April 1986 - April 1991 BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND, PC, Washington, DC
* Assistant to several Associates specializing in Environmental law
* Responsible for editing and delivery of various correspondence and pleadings
* Maintained voluminous pleadings files and indices
Legal Secretary/Assistant (Litigation)
June 1983 - March 1986 PIERSON, BALL & DOWD, Washington, DC
* Assistant to Senior Partner who specialized in Wills & Estates and Adoption la
w and several Associates in the Litigation Group
* Responsible for client billing and other basic secretarial duties
* Prepared documents for adoption proceedings, wills, contracts and other legal
documents
* Licensed as Notary Public
Legal Secretary/Assistant (Litigation)
April 1981 - June 1983 GAFFNEY, ANSPACH, Washington, DC
* Assistant to named Partners of the Firm practicing various areas of law includ
ing Military, Tax, Wills & Estates and Criminal
* Responsible for maintaining daily run-of-the-office including all typing/dicta
tion, phone answering, ordering supplies, opening/closing client cases, and lice
nsed Notary Public
Extensive experience with Styles, Table of Contents (TOC) and Table of Authoriti
es (TOA), Headers/Footers, Footnotes and Merge Letters.