MinterEllisonPERSONAL ASSISTANT TO LEGAL SENIOR PARTNER
Jan. 1999 - May. 2001Sydney, AustraliaActed as client liaison secretary for major client maintaining good relations similar to an Account Manager’s role - duties included managing client’s monthly billing reports using Excel spreadsheets (monthly bills for major client exceeding $100,000), liaising with secretaries, attending to client’s enquiries. Daily admin duties included: typing and editing commercial documents ie, contracts and agreements using legal precedents preparing flowcharts using PowerPoint, extensive Dictaphone work, entering timesheets for preparation of monthly bills, preparing monthly bills, screening calls and emails for senior partner, liaising with clients, organising conferences and meetings, attending meetings, diary management, directing junior staff, maintaining filing, and attending to Public Notarial secretarial duties and other various day to day duties as required for senior partner plus 2 other solicitors