Leslie Meritt Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Alexandria, Virginia

• Renew domestic and international trademarks for global intellectual property (IP) firm.
• Oversee portfolio of key North American clients that range in size from small businesses to members of the Fortune 100 and ensure protection of their IP rights.
• Acquire and organize documents needed for timely trademark renewals, such as legalizations, owner changes, and powers-of-attorney (POA’s).
• Respond on timely basis to inquiries from clients, foreign agents, and regulators.
• Collaborate with CPA’s sales, legal, finance, and other departments to meet client requests and comply with service level agreements (SLA’s).
• Devised new legalization workflow and expense tracking that added $12K in annual revenue; trained coworkers on new process.

Alexandria, Virginia

Dulles, Virginia

• Fulfilled data requests from law enforcement agencies in response to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
• Validated documents, obtained server data, and securely sent to requestor.
• Answered Emergency Hotline calls for crimes in progress.
• Updated online database with details of incoming civil and criminal actions.
• Archived records and transferred files to off-site storage; physical copies stored in perpetuity to be at-hand for any possible future investigations or court actions.
• Assisted in investigation and apprehension of numerous criminals, such as pornographers and child abusers, among other crimes.

Dulles, Virginia

• Assigned to AOL’s Public Safety and Criminal Investigations Department, administered online database.
• Staffed law enforcement Hotline and responded to requests by fax, email, and mail.
• Managed departmental online database and document system that contained over 20K files.
• Coordinated file movement to and from offsite storage facility.
• Performance led to offer of full-time employment.

Greenbelt, MD

• Capital One BankFile Clerk / Data Entry Clerk
• Provided support for the Financial Services department
• Processed large volume of files for scanning and updated customer information in bank databaseSentech, Inc. Receptionist
• Answered phones for the US Department of Energy, Geothermal Technology Program Office
• Facilitated official written correspondence Chevy Chase BankData Entry Clerk
• Maintained several excel spreadsheets for the real estate department

Bethesda, MD

• Hosted Webex teleconferences for Program Planning Committees
• Organized the recruitment, registration, and travel of conference speakers
• Prepared all necessary letters and instructional documents for speakers
• Supervised the audio/visual elements of conferences

Paralegal Certificate, Legal Assistant/Paralegal

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Theatre/Theater, 3.5