Vickie Bethea Email and Phone Number

Vickie Bethea completes a broad variety of administrative and project management tasks including: managing an extremely active calendar of appointments; completing expense reports; composing and preparing correspondence that is sometimes confidential; arranging complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; and compiling documents for travel-related meetings. With regards to scheduling, she provides a "gatekeeper"​ and "gateway" role and works with the Public Relations team in coordinating meetings with the press. Mrs. Bethea researches, prioritizes, and follows up on incoming issues and concerns, including those of a sensitive or confidential nature to determine appropriate course of action, referral, or response. She successfully completes critical aspects of deliverables with a hands-on approach while serving as a legal administrative liaison. She participates as an adjunct member of the Client Development Team. In this regard, Mrs. Bethea assists by preparing an agenda for team meetings, preparing and distributing meeting minutes and tracking the process of subsequently assigned tasks. Additionally, Mrs. Bethea follows up on contacts made by her attorney and supports the cultivation of ongoing relationships

In this position I worked as a legal secretary for which I provided assistance to a partner and 3 associates who specialized in Food & Drug law. I primarily assisted with the preparation of voluminous briefs to be filed with the FDA. This work included extensive proofreading. Additionally, I assisted with timekeeping, calendaring, preparing travel arrangements, overseeing client billing, and legal research.

Worked as a Paralegal for a firm specializing in workers' compensation under the Longshore & Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, as well as Social Security Disability Act claims. In this position I was the primary source of contact for over 500 clients. I prepared cases for hearings by drafting interrogatories and request for production of documents and prepared responses to same, and scheduled depositions. I routinely reviewed records filed with the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, and gathered and organized relevant medical and employment records to be used as exhibits in preparation for hearings before the Office of Administrative Law Judges and Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. After the conclusion of successful matters, I worked with health care providers to negotiate pro-rata apportionment attorney fees.