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2009-2011 Legal Assistant, Including A/R and Billing2011-2016 Paralegal and Bookkeeper2016-Present Law Practice AdministratorDeveloping automation to insure the delivery of high quality legal services;Maintaining, analyzing and interpreting financial data and management information for the Owner;Managing/coordinating the human resources functions for the administrative support staff, including coordination of vacation schedule;Providing administrative management support to those attorneys who are responsible for substantive areas of the practice;Managing the administrative operations of the Firm, including screening, interviewing, supervising, evaluating, and training of all non-attorney personnel up to and including terminations;Evaluating and managing the Firm’s operating and information systems;Overseeing the Firm’s finance functions;Determining non-attorney staff needs in coordination with supervising attorneys, as appropriate;Maintaining personnel records for all employees;Handling unemployment compensation hearings;Determining and recommending salary adjustments for non-attorney personnel;Assisting the Owner in associate attorney compensation and bonus evaluation process;Administering, evaluating, and recommending changes, as appropriate, to the benefits offered by the Firm;Financial and tax reporting (in coordination with accountant);General ledger and trust accounting;Managing banking relationships;Payroll and fringe benefits for employees;Evaluating periodically the computer systems used by the Firm, including hardware and all software, to determine whether changes in these systems are merited to increase efficiency and to achieve cost savings;Managing records retention, including information storage and retrieval;Managing the telephone system; and,• Bookkeeping, billing, A/R, A/P (Quickbooks), Escrow.

Management of legal service provider (process serving, corporate filings, registered agent) - day to day Operations/Supervision of 16 employees. Independent contractor supervision, AP/AR, billing - Quickbooks, FileMakerPro. Account reconciliation and collections. Intellectual Property searches and filings. All back end functions; document preparation and retrieval; Registered Agent. Human resources including payroll and benefit administration.

Payroll; Expense reports; General Ledger; Banking; Billing; A/R; Collections; Union Issues; A/P and supervision of clerical staff.

Responsible for the day to day operations of our Albany and Syracuse branches (each office had 100+ employees who were under my supervision). I was “on call” 24 hours a day. My duties included but were not limited to: hiring, terminations, payroll, and agency (NYS Disability, Workers Comp, NYS Department of Labor, Child Support Collection Unit, IRS, OSHA, ) inquiries and compliance. Additionally, I was also responsible for billing, A/R and collection, personnel policy revision and implementation, sales statistics; and, staffing of RN’s, LPN’s, CNA’s, HHA’s, and PCA’s.