Welcome to my online resume.  Please allow me to tell you something about myself.

I am ready to seek out new challenges and personalities.

My most recent experience has been humbling to me. While my secretarial skills were not an issue, after four months, it became clear that I was not up to all the tasks faced by a personal assistant. That is a position I need to grow into.

During my tenure with the Rusin law firm, I worked for senior and junior partners, as well as associates. All were very pleased with the quality of my work. With this and my prior jobs, I have always applied myself wholly, meeting and often exceeding the expectations of my employers and supervisors. In addition to my legal and clerical work, I have in the past also performed jobs as varied as radio announcing, traffic and news reporting, overseeing the television broadcast of college-level classes, acting, and even carpentry and cabinet making. I also co-founded and managed the many and various administrative aspects of a performing and touring band, successfully weaving those responsibilities around my work responsibilities, to the detriment of neither.

I work well under pressure and with a deadline looming. While I believe I am a well grounded person, I feel I am also poised and professional; I am serious and studious, but also friendly and approachable. I try to do everything as efficiently as possible, so that I can get more done.

My resume is below. I am willing to relocate for the right opportunity. I look forward to speaking with you in the near future. Please feel free to give me a call or send me an e-mail. If you're wondering, although I use Macromedia HomeSite 5, all my HTML coding is done by hand.

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JOSEPHINE MARIE THANE
1258 Roach Hollow Rd.
Ringgold, Georgia 30736-7045
(706) 937-3980 (Home)
(773) 793-4652 (Cell)
jmthane@sbcglobal.net

SUMMARY

Over ten years of legal experience in several areas of law, including workers' compensation litigation, civil litigation, class action, and intellectual property.
Typing speed of 85 words per minute.
Experience in various software including Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office XP, Windows XP, Photoshop, Quicken, WordPerfect Office, FTP (various programs), HTML web design, Intuity Audix Voicemail System, Merlin Legend Communications System, Olympus Digital Dictation System, Photography, Photoshop, PowerPoint, PracticeMaster/STI, Worldox Document Management.
Excellent written and oral command of the English language.
Professional telephone demeanor

PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers, LLC, Geneva, Illinois, October 2007-February 2008.
Personal assistant/legal secretary. Assisted name partner in all aspects of professional ventures, focusing on plaintiff class action cases brought in Federal Court. Duties included reviewing incoming bills for correct in-house billing, arranging travel, reviewing court filings, entering attorney time.

Law Offices of Rusin Maciorowski & Friedman, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, August 1997-July 2007.
Preparing legal documents and correspondence from tape, handwritten documents and other sources peculiar to workers' compensation, acted as liaison between insurance adjusters, opposing attorneys and pro se petitioners, arranged depositions, independent medical examinations, pro se settlement conferences, and other appointments as requested, entered attorney time; also Assistant I.T. Director, phone system manager, 2000-2004.

Law Offices of Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Illinois, August 1996-July 1997.
Word Processor in the typing pool, preparing correspondence and court documents peculiar to intellectual property.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Minstrosity, Chicago, Illinois, November 1997-October 2006.
Founder, Manager, Performer, Webmaster for touring professional band.

Peryam & Kroll Research Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, July 1994-August 1996.
Word Processing Operator preparing research data in an easy-to-read form for clients.

Mack and Associates, Chicago, Illinois, January 1994-July 1994.
Word Processing, Administrative, Data Entry, and Docket Clerk assignments at the Corporate Office of Gateway Foundation and the Law Offices of Altheimer & Gray.

EDUCATION

New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Special Microsoft Word 2002 Course, 3 levels, Chicago, IL 2003.