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tennis, reading, dancing
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Gemma Boyd

Mississauga,ON

Summary

To provide excellent customer service for internal and external clients to enhance growth in the Corporation.

I'm excited to have an opportunity to demonstrate my skills and abilities and excellent professionalism if hired for this position.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Legal Assistant

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP
06.2010 - 03.2018
  • Creating, revising and formatting documents to firm standards
  • Inserting hyperlinks, pagination, black lining, side barring, redacting, and highlighting as instructed
  • Cross-referencing documents
  • Converting PDF to Word or Excel documents cleaning and formatting new document(s)
  • Running document comparisons
  • Troubleshooting problem documents
  • Proofreading documents and correcting as necessary
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Advance knowledge in Adobe PDF and MS Office Suite
  • Strong attention to detail in particular with regards to spelling and grammar
  • Top notch communication and interpersonal skills
  • Transcribing documents including letters, memos and correspondence and copy-typing handwritten notes
  • Drafting and preparing correspondence for professionals using precedents
  • Photocopying, faxing and scanning documents and correspondence
  • Providing support to lawyers, articling students, law clerks and staff as required and requested
  • Provided assistance on large closing projects with excellent turnaround of documents and correspondence under high pressure.

Legal Assistant

Gowlings LLP
05.2003 - 04.2009
  • Provided assistance on confidential real estate project which included reviewing title searches and pinpointing specific parcels of lands, creating reports and providing to clients
  • Converting PDF and Excel documents to word, revising and performing black lines
  • Creating and revising PowerPoint documents
  • Reformatting documents when necessary to firm's standard
  • Strong transcription skills
  • Assisted on special litigation projects by entering information in database
  • Assisted in Document Production Centre and performed various tasks not limited to revising and editing various complex documents including litigation documents such as factum, motion records
  • Provided assistance on large closing projects with excellent turnaround of documents and correspondence under high pressure
  • Provided assistance with photocopying, faxing, filing, internet research updating client records and all other work as required by legal professionals.

Education

Skills

  • Communication
  • Digital Dictation
  • Legal Assistance
  • Legal Document Preparation
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite
  • Advanced keyboarding and computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, iManage, Adobe Acrobat, DocXtools, Mac Pac
  • Work well under pressure, excellent at multi-tasking, troubleshooting and customer service
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills as well as customer-service oriented
  • Highly organized and has pride in final work product
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision, as well as part of a team

Additional Information

From 2019 - 2022, I managed my own eco-friendly tissue product business called "WipeOnUs.com" which was unsuccessful due to unforeseen challenges presented during the Covid 19 pandemic.

City

Mississauga

State

ON

Zip

L5N 5P6

Street

3340 Cambourne Crescent

Languages

English
Full Professional

tennis, reading, dancing

I'm an active tennis player and practices about 3-4 times a week for approximately 1.5 hours.

I try to read  a book on a weekly basis,

I enjoy zumba fitness classes about 4 times a week.

Timeline

Legal Assistant

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP
06.2010 - 03.2018

Legal Assistant

Gowlings LLP
05.2003 - 04.2009

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