Karla Mills Email & Phone Number

Lake St. Louis, Mo

Columbia, Missouri Area

Paralegal and Manger of 8 legal clerks covering 4 states consisting Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Kentucky. • Provide high level paralegal and administrative support to 10 attorneys as well as senior partners. Direct oversight of legal administrative clerks in a fast-paced, high-volume law firm. • Preparing and filing of legal documents. Proofing of legal documents prepped by law clerks. Liaison between judges, court administration, and attorneys. Research of publications of state laws. Maintaining databases and court calendars. • Responsible for tracking attendance, scheduling, and evaluation/training records of clerks. Decision-making responsibility for department on issues of production, preparing reports, interaction with courts and court clerks, establishing priorities, problem solving, adjustments, establishing rules and guidelines, goals, quality of documents, and personnel. Maintaining court dockets for legal team and outside attorneys covering cases. • Coach, mentor and develop staff, including overseeing new employee hiring and providing career development planning and opportunities.• Facilitate employee goal setting, feedback, and performance development planning.• Work closely with other managers to enhance and develop new tools to improve efficiencies for the company.• Establish an open relationship and appropriately communicate information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings with staff and employees, email and regular interpersonal communication.

Provide high level secretarial and administrative support to three of 9 attorneys Draft, manage fax, mail, and copy correspondence. Process range of standard legal documents including contracts, petitions, appeals, notices, and subpoenas.Schedule legal meetings, depositions, court reporting, and physician appointments. Research for cases. Transcribe notes, minutes, and dictations. Maintain attorney schedules, appointments, calendars, and databases. Prepare legal forms including accident reports, workers’ compensation claims, applications, summons, and courtroom requests forms. Filing of motions whether by mail or e-filing.Extensive case research and preparation of medical summaries. Proofread and edit legal documents.Communicate electronically, verbally, and writing to answer inquiries from clients, attorneys, and interact extensively with clients from point of referral. Organize delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials. Arrange hearing dates, file motions, and follow up on pending court cases. Follow up on court cases, filings and client appointments

Columbia, Mo

Greeted physicians and staff, answering of office phones, ordering office supplies, and maintaining office files.Scheduled department meetings for all various medical departments and committees for physicians. Dictation and transcription of all meeting minutes for all departments and committees. Credentialing of nurses, physicians and medical staff for affiliate office of Boone Hospital. Worked closely with office staff of physician affiliated with Boone regarding meetings, network access to Boone’s IT. Enter credentialing information into the system. Manage database information of outside facilities associated with Boone

Fort Carson, Co

Oversaw the ACS Volunteer Program, worked with well over 3,000 volunteers, recurited, training, volunteer activities, appreciation ceremonies, organized community events, meetings between volunteers and General of Ft Carson.Provided essential office administration such as greeting customers, answering phones, retrieving a sorting inter-office emails, photocopying, faxing, document filing, as well as meetings for top command. Maintain calendars for supervisors and government vehicle.Prepared and published various documents with complex formats, data entry, newsletters, brochures, flyers, AAR (After Action Reports), meeting minutes, Army memorandums, briefings, event programs, invitations and manuals.Worked one on one with leaders, volunteers, Mayors, Commanding General, Garrison Commanders, soldiers, families as well commands. Planned and completed work in accordance with established office procedures and office administrative practices.Coordinated, planned and executed special recognitions events for over 5000 volunteers on Fort Carson. Worked closely with the general’s office, catering services, volunteers, event center managers and planners.Maintained VMIS (Volunteer Management Information System) reports, volunteer’s data entry to help volunteers register on VMIS.Provided monthly classroom training and meetings for command Family Readiness Support Assistants, Family Readiness Leaders, Volunteer Action Committee, Mayors and ACS Volunteer Board. Recruited volunteers of all ages.Maintained SOP’s (Standard Operation Procedure) for the Volunteer Corp

Tripler, Hi

Scheduled training and travel orders for soldiers and command, reservations for hotel, transportation and meals. Assisted with TDY travel arrangements.Maintained calendars for Chief, Command Sergeant Major and Master Sergeant of the Medical Maintenance Department. Accounts Payable’s and Receivables, order of office supplies, office equipment, furniture and office equipment repairs. Entry of employee hours and maintain DMLS database.Placed orders for medical equipment and replacement parts. Received and shipped medical equipment for repairs and replacement. Data entry of all medical equipment coming in for repair. BPO (Blanket Purchase Orders), expense reports, purchase requisitions.Held 3 major government credit card reconciled and maintained records for those accounts which totaled over a million a year. Developed and modified database management systems to perform. Maintained electronic filing systems for the department.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Provided ongoing support for CEO’s as well as 19 agents within the office, scheduled home showings for agents as well as local agents wanting to view our agent homes.Accounts payables, data entry of home information in MLS system and office data base.Wrote contracts for agents, maintained files, measured homes and photographed homes for sale. Developed home books placed in all homes for sale by our agents. Reviewed all contracts for accuracy and issues.Worked closely with marketing to market agent homes for local real estate magazine as well as local newspaper. Produced brochures for agent listings as well as maintained signs and brochure boxes. Put together contract and closing folders ready for use and maintained single forms.Scheduled company meetings and training for all agents. Prepared meeting minutes, sales information and sales graph for all agents.Maintained key database system to enter homes for sales for company, data entry and MLS. Maintained front office to greet customers and clients. Answering of phones and inter-office messaging system. Worked closely with local title companies, delivering closing documents, as well as sitting in on home closings

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