Eve Sullivan Email & Phone Number

Sacramento

Legal Secretary - Workers'​ Compensation Insurance Defense, Subrogation, Civil Litigation, and ADR. I provide support to multiple attorneys in the Sacramento and Redding offices. I am responsible for high volume transcription and editing, drafting correspondence and pleadings in accordance with firm standards and client guidelines, and scheduling for all attorneys I work with. I also handle billing, e-filing (EAMS, PACER), and training new hires in firm procedures and workflow.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:2022 - Assisted with digital file setup for time-sensitive, large/complex files.2016 - Prepared training program and workflow documentation for secretarial support staff.2014 - Assisted with the firm's transition to the BigHand digital dictation system and development of associated workflow policies.2010 - Assisted in the development of a firmwide transition to Google Apps, focusing on the implementation of Google Calendar as a legal calendaring system.

Sacramento, California

Office Manager / Civil Litigation Secretary While working as the firm's Northern California Civil Litigation Secretary, I interviewed, hired, trained, and supervised all new hires in the office. I prepared payroll, staff attendance reports, and personnel files for eight employees, including written staff evaluations/action plan. I also improved staff work flow and production, including file setup, transcription turnaround, and overall compliance with firm standards and client guidelines. I maintained master the calendar for the office and provided regular assistance with entering attorney billing and billing appeals; conducted quarterly safety meetings with all attorneys and staff and weekly staff meetings to provide continuing EAMS training.

After hours and weekend legal transcription for attorneys, insurance adjusters, law enforcement and investigators.

Sacramento, California

Legal Services - Workers' CompensationI maintained nearly 600 workers' compensation applicant files, communicating daily with injured workers, physicians, insurance companies, attorneys, and the WCAB regarding case status. I was responsible for calendaring statutes and drafting most pleadings, including petitions, objections, law and motion, and discovery requests and responses. I scheduled all appointments and resolved calendar conflicts for four attorneys with the firm. I ordered and abstracted medical records, and prepared preliminary case investigations and billing. I completed transcription and dictation, and administratively opened and closed files. I also answered the 11 line phone, took messages, and did filing.

Rancho Cordova, California

Legal Services - Personal Injury, Workers' CompensationI was responsible for drafting pleadings including law and motion, complaints, discovery requests and responses. I ordered necessary medical records and bills, abstracted the medical records, and I did the calendaring, preliminary case investigations, billing, transcribing and dictation, and opening and closing files. After the attorney’s analysis of the case, I drafted settlement demands. I also answered the 4-line phone, took messages, and did the filing. From August 1994 to January 1995, I was the office bookkeeper. I maintained the clients’ ledger book as well as the accounts payable. From 1997 until the office closed in 1998, I was the office manager and was responsible for hiring support staff.

Sacramento, California

Legal Services - Civil Litigation, Personal InjuryI was responsible for transcribing, answering phones, taking messages, filing, and maintenance of the client ledger book.

Sacramento, California

Legal Services - Civil Litigation, ConstructionI was responsible for complex case database preparation and maintenance. I also did case filing and filed documents at the Sacramento County Courthouse. Before the BAJI instructions were available on discs, I transcribed all of the instructions into Word Perfect merge documents.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration

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