Current Employment

For the past year I have been employed as a clerk at the Law offices of N. Diane Holmes P.A. It is a small two attorney family law office, but the information I have learned their is invaluable. I believe that this job will better prepare me for the profession and further education that I plan on. One of the greatest things that I have learned working at a small office, is the power of team work. In an office, if either yourself or someone else does not complete the tasks that are assigned the whole team/office suffers. More importantly, you have to go into work with a positive attitude since your feelings can easily effect the offices overall moral.

Below are a list of tasks that my job description requires:
- Schedule office appointments
- Screen potential clients: this is done by completing a set of new caller notes. When someone with a legal issue calls the office for the first time, information is obtained and evaluated to see if our office will be able to be of service. Either the notes are passed to the attorney or then are referred to someone else. This happens to be my favorite part of the job since this is really the only time I get to interact with clients on a personal level. You are not the same to every person on the phone, so are very skeptic about giving any type of information while others are extremely emotion. Therefore I must be sensitive to the person on the other end.
- In charge of putting consult packets together: which clients bring home pertinent information to their situation.
- Organize discovery: which is obtained by either our client or the opposing party. This information gives us knowledge on peoples finances, health, jobs, etc. depending on the type of case.
- Input Financial Affidavit: this documents either parties assets and liabilities.
- BE A TEAM PLAYER: by making sure that not only my job is done, but also seeing what others around the office need after my work is completed.