Denice Hoffman-Diggs Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Successfully providing executive-level administrative support for the head of the department. Drafting letters and documents, managing correspondence and calendars, organizing conferences, scheduling couriers, and.
• Formulating franchise documents, renewal notices, leases, mortgages, operating agreements, assignment and assumption agreements, unanimous written consents, resolutions, incumbency certificates, non-disclosure.
• Greeting guests and clients in person or by phone, answering questions or directing inquiries to appropriate parties. Exceeded established goals and increased client retention by 60% within a year.
• Performing conflict checks prior to opening new client cases. Creating information by transcribing, formatting, inputting, editing, copying data for transactions.
• Maintaining records containing store numbers, locations, landlord’s & tenant’s information, and rental amount.
• Reviewing, researching, verifying, and routing correspondence, reports, and legal transactional documents.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Hired to assist Regional Chair and Partner of the Tax, Benefits & Wealth Planning Group. Performed transcription of dictation, scheduled meetings, coordinated travel arrangements, and kept travel vouchers and records.
• Prepared and processed legal documents (wills, trusts, codicils, amendments, power of attorney, living will directive, resolutions, check requests, operating agreements) and papers and arranged delivery of legal.
• Composed correspondence for attorneys, closing transcripts, documents and forms.
• Created various pleadings and filed/e-filed same many courts throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Indiana, and also through the Commonwealth of Kentucky Workers' Claims LMS system.
• Minimized travel costs by 25% within six months of the hire date by switching travel agent services.
• Opened new file matters regarding general corporate, estate planning, probate and litigation.

Greater Chicago Area

• Assigned to Of Counsel and two (2) associates. Served as liaison between attorney and clients, including manage high email and call volume daily and scheduling consultations.
• Organized and proofread all record for correspondence, emails, memorandum, Wills, Trusts, Codicils, estate planning documents, Operating Agreements, Membership Interest Purchase & Sale Agreements, Settlement.
• Supported attorneys for trial by drafting pleadings, motions, interrogatories, responses, answers, notices, orders and witness lists.
• Introduced a user-friendly electronic filing system, which reduced file retrieval time by 35%.
• Reviewed and inputted Cook County Assessor and Board of Review reduced assessed valuation results.
• Maintained attorney's CLE compliance records and registered attorneys for CLE seminars.

Greater Chicago Area

• Dedicated to long-term assignment with Duane Morris and Schoenberg, Fisher, Newman & Rosenberg LLC.
• Provided extensive secretarial and paralegal support; conducted legal research, and conflicts check, drafted pleadings, and prepared legal.
• Drafted and proofread time-sensitive contracts, answers, subpoenas, complaints, discovery, and motions for various matters and filed same with Court.
• Assisted attorneys in the preparation of trials, depositions, mediations, and arbitration hearings by organizing legal documents.
• Communicated daily with court officials, clients, and opposing counsel to case manage commercial litigation matters.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States