DEBRA D’AUNOY CRAWFORD

20217 Village Green Drive

Lakewood, CA 90715
562-865-0486(h); 562-773-5457(c)
E-mail: gglabree2000@yahoo.com

EXPERIENCE

12/2009 – 1/2010 Legal Secretary Ericksen Arbuthnot, LLP

Provided assistance to senior equity partner and two associates. Responsibilities included
preparation and filing of legal documents for State and Federal Courts, including e-filing.
Transcription. Arrange arbitrations, depositions, meetings with experts, site inspections
and IMEs. Worked closely with carriers and clients. Trusted with confidential firm
information. Maintain calendaring, serving and responding to heavy discovery, ordering
medical and employment records. Scan and distribute mail, scanning, faxing, answering
phones and fill in for receptionist. Software: Word 2007, Legal Solutions, Microsoft
Outlook Calendaring.

4/2008 – 11/2008 Family Care. New Orleans, Louisiana. Provided care for my father and other family
members who were victims of Katrina. My father passed in November of 2008.

11/2007 - 3/2008 Legal Secretary - Brady, Vorwerck, Ryder & Caspino LLP, (Temp)
Emphasis on Insurance Defense, Criminal Law and Personal Injury

Provided assistance to one partner and assist with overflow.

Responsibilities: Set up new files and meetings with new clients; prepare and send
weekly reports to carriers regarding status of cases. Arrange meetings with clients.
Prepare and serve legal documents including discovery and correspondence and
maintain calendaring. Prepare, serve and file pleadings in Superior and Federal Courts.
Software: Word (Vision), Legal Solutions, scanners, faxes

4/2007 – 11/2007 Legal Secretary - Bryan Cave LLP.

Emphasis on Employment Discrimination, Criminal Law, Civil Litigation and Complex
Litigation

Provided assistance to three associates. Responsibilities: Worked on complex multi-party

construction defect cases; pro bono, and general litigation cases. Responsibilities:
Prepare and serve complex litigation and filings, maintained attorney calendars, prepare
correspondence. Schedule depositions, arbitrations and meetings. Scan incoming mail
to litigation department attorneys involved in the matter; prepare, serve and calendar
discovery for various Counties in Superior and Federal Courts. Arrange travel and hotel
accommodations. Software: Word, Transcription, Legal Key, scanners, Local Forms,
Vision, Delta View, DTE, Microsoft Outlook, Ceridian VIOP System, Faxes.

6/2006 – 3/2007 Dickstein Shapiro LLP – Century City, CA

Emphasis on Civil Litigation, Entertainment Law, Environmental Law

Provided assistance to one partner and two associates. Responsibilities: This firm operated
“paperless” which included scanning and preparing documents for filings in Superior and
Federal Courts. Prepare Agreements and Contracts. Prepare, serve and calendar
discovery. Prepare correspondence to clients. Memorandums to various partners
 regarding status of cases. Schedule meetings, depositions and arbitrations. Arrange
travel and hotel accommodations. Software: Scanners, Legal Solutions, Microsoft
Outlook, Ceridian, DTE

2/1984 - 6/2006 Kirtland & Packard, LLP, El Segundo, CA

Emphasis on Litigation, Criminal Law, Personal Injury, Insurance Defense, Dental
Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Plaintiff Work, Discrimination Law

Provided assistance as a Legal Secretary / Executive Assistant to Robert C. Packard

(deceased) and assistant to partners and associates. Responsibilities: I cover a wide
spectrum of litigation responsibilities, maintained attorney calendars, prepare
correspondence. Arrange travel and hotel accommodations. Schedule depositions,
arbitrations and meetings and court hearings. Coordinated speaking engagements.
Receive and have bills paid. Set up new files. Prepare, serve and calendar discovery for
various Counties in Superior and Federal Courts. Set up IMEs, maintain calendaring,
Various administrative tasks, personal tasks for Mr. Packard, loyal and trustworthy with
firm confidential information. Rotate switchboard daily. Maintain filing. Prepare and
serve complaints and all other related documents. Supervised and was liaison between
staff and administration.

EDUCATION: Received Diploma from St. Michael’s High School, Los Angeles.

SKILLS: Type 70+ wpm, extremely organized, Dictaphone and computer enhanced transcription,
Gregg Shorthand, Word, Legal Solutions, Windows, ProLaw, Word Perfect, DM
Hummingbird, Legal Key, Vision, Elite, Citrix, Delta View, scanners, copiers and fax
machines, arrange company functions, assist in training and hiring of new staff,
switchboards, filing. Work unsupervised.