Sarah Goyette Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Currently working as a Legal Assistant to multiple Associates in the Litigation Practice Group.
• Drafting pleadings and various court documents from standard precedents (e.g. affidavits of documents, discontinuances, affidavits, notices, books of authorities); preparing various legal documents and correspondence.
• Maintaining, organizing, and updating a docket system of due dates for action and follow up, monitoring deadlines, and corresponding with parties… Show more Currently working as a Legal Assistant to multiple Associates.
• Maintaining, organizing, and updating a docket system of due dates for action and follow up, monitoring deadlines, and corresponding with parties regarding same.
• Liaising with various levels of Courts – Federal Court, Superior Court, and Small Claims Court – as well as process servers to maintain a relationship and ensure court documents are served and filed correctly and on.
• General administrative tasks, such as electronic filing and maintenance of electronic files in a document management system, file management, document production, booking travel, maintaining calendars, coordinating.

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Performing administrative duties including greeting clients, answering telephones, sending and receiving maildeliveries, setting up boardrooms for meetings, updating lawyers’ calendars daily, as well as checking the.
• Assisting the Wills & Estate team in assembling legal documents for the Court, Registry Office, and Land Titles Office, as well as making necessary amendments to ensure correct filing; assisting the Records and.
• Assisting the Wills & Estate team in assembling legal documents for the Court, Registry Office, and Land Titles Office, as well as making necessary amendments to ensure correct filing; assisting the Records and.
• Performing other administrative duties such as court and registry runs, bank runs, handling and maintaining petty cash, and frequent internal communications. Show less

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Assisting clients with everyday transactions such as payments, withdrawals, cheque cashing, and deposits for both personal and business accounts.
• Managing end of day balancing, as well as maintaining all receipts received throughout the day.
• Resolving client issues while consistently delivering exceptional customer service.
• Performing administrative duties such as scheduling appointments for clients, phoning clients, distributing mail, faxing documents, and sending… Show more
• Performing administrative duties such as scheduling appointments for clients, phoning clients, distributing mail, faxing documents, and sending both internal and external emails. Show less

Certification, Legal Assistant, 4.0 Gpa

Political Science

Completed two years studying in the Criminology program and then the Political Sciences program.

Ontario Secondary School Diploma