Lisa Cave has over 25 years of experience working in administrative and legal assistant roles for law firms and companies in New York and North Carolina. Her experience includes responsibilities like preparing legal documents, organizing case files, scheduling meetings, handling client inquiries, transcription, billing, and general administrative tasks like managing schedules, travel arrangements, and supplies. She has a range of skills in software like MS Office, legal case management systems, and shorthand.

1. Lisa M. Cave
2530 Adonis Court, Charlotte, NC 28213
Tel: 980-238-4322·
Email: lisacave2007@aol.com
SKILLS
MS Word▪ Outlook ▪ Excel ▪ PowerPoint ▪ Omega ▪ Lotus Notes ▪ Carpe Diem ▪ DeltaView ▪
DocsOpen (DM) ▪ Elite ▪ Shorthand ▪ Dictaphone
EXPERIENCE
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP 2011-Present
Charlotte, North Carolina
Legal Assistant to Partners in Litigation, Bankruptcy, and Corporate Law. Responsibilities
include preparing various documents and correspondence; proofreading legal documents
and filing with courts; maintaining discovery and pleadings files, organizing case files, and
maintaining the filing system; scheduling meetings and events and coordinating travel
arrangements; handling client inquiries and arranging for payment of experts; opening new
client files and creating engagement letters. General tasks include time entry, billing,
Dictaphone transcription, etc.
Office Team 2010
Charlotte, North Carolina
Various temporary assignments. Worked for three months at IRWIN Tools in Huntersville,
assisting three high-level executives in IRWIN’s Marketing Department. Responsibilities
included organizing events, managing hectic schedules, creating marketing presentations,
making complex travel arrangements, creating and submitting expense reports, and
ordering supplies for the department.
Shearman & Sterling LLP 1999 – 2009
New York, New York
Numerous assignments during ten-year employment at the firm including Executive
Assistant to the Firm’s Managing Partner until he became Managing Partner of the Paris
office. Assisted the Deputy Practice Group Leader and three associates in the Property
Group. Extensive administrative duties involved significant client contact and interaction
with senior leadership and outside counsel; coordinating challenging schedules,
conferences, and events; making complex travel arrangements; handling highly confidential
documents; acting as an intermediary between the partners and associates; and substantial
participation in billing and collections. Routine secretarial responsibilities included taking
and transcribing dictation, heavy telephone contact, entering attorney time records,
preparing attorney expense reports, and organizing and maintaining the filing system.

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Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1996 - 1999
New York, New York
Assistant to Partner and Senior Associate in Litigation involving the Insurance/Reinsurance
industry. Responsibilities consisted of managing case load; assisting with projects relating
to paralegal duties, such as involvement in all levels of the production process of numerous
legal documents; and handling all aspects of invoicing to extremely cost-conscious clients,
including the development of a system for successfully challenging invoice write downs.
General tasks included dictation, typing, filing, coordinating conferences, making travel
arrangements, and various administrative duties.
Burns, Kennedy, Schilling & O’Shea 1992 – 1996
New York, New York
Secretary to Partner and Senior Associate in Estates and Trusts. General responsibilities
included heavy Dictaphone transcription; generating and editing various legal documents
such as wills, petitions, and schedules of account; answering busy phones; organizing office
filing system; managing company billing system; ordering supplies; and managing company
checking account.
John Zuelzer & Son
Buckingham, Pennsylvania 1990 – 1992
Manhasset, New York 1987 - 1990
Managed all aspects of opening a second branch office in Pennsylvania. Responsibilities
included following up on contracts; tracking down missing shipments; making travel
arrangements; functioning as a liaison between Senior Partner and buyers/sellers, i.e., as a
trouble shooter and customer-service representative; overseeing all office administrative
duties including ordering supplies and business banking; typing, editing, and taking
dictation; maintaining office filing system; and other general administrative tasks.
ATTENDED
Katharine Gibbs School
C.W. Post College
REFERENCES: Available upon request