Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Bushwalking, nature, animals, volunteering, keeping fit.
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Jocelyn Williams

Blackheath,NSW

Summary

I am a paralegal and administrative assistant with strong skills in organising and project managing cases and files, experienced working with diverse populations and working in high stress, high pressure environments, who also enjoys dealing with clients and the public, solicitors and government organisations, maintaining confidentiality, resolving issues for clients, researching and organising.

Overview

42
42
years of professional experience

Work History

Paralegal

Benetatos White
03.2022 - Current

Part time role managing estate files and matters, managing conveyancing files and matters, liaising with clients, drafting documents and letters, managing work diaries, conducting Pexa electronic workspaces, used Practice Evolve and Evolve Go software.

Paralegal

McKenzie Lawyers
01.2018 - Current

Part time paralegal managing conveyancing and estate files, liaising with clients and other solicitors, managing Pexa electronic workspaces, creating precedents, drafting legal documents and letters for a busy sole practitioner.

Paralegal

GJ Harris & Co
02.2018 - 01.2022

Managing conveyancing, estates, commercial, criminal, litigation and lease files, including drafting documents and letters, managing Pexa electronic workspaces, using Leap legal software, managing appointment diaries.

Paralegal

Robert Tinsey
01.2008 - 12.2017

Managing conveyancing, estates, wills, leases, commercial, litigation files in a very busy sole practitioners practice, including drafting documents and letters, liaising with clients, managing the office, using various legal software systems.

Administrative Assistant

Women's Health NSW
10.2007 - 01.2008

Temporary role in liaising with NSW Women's Health Centres, lodging reports, managing meetings, drafting letters.

Project Management Officer

Blue Mountains City Council
12.2006 - 08.2007

Managing projects, liaising with Council staff, residents and external organisations, drafting documents, creating reports, attending Council meetings, using project management software.

Paralegal

Robert Tinsey Solicitor
02.2006 - 12.2006

Managing conveyancing, estates, wills, leases, litigation files, drafting documents and letters, liaising with clients and solicitors.

Paralegal

Benetatos White Solicitors
10.1995 - 01.2006

Managing files for an increasingly busy legal practice including legal training, utilising various legal software, managing partners' diaries, liaising with clients, drafting documents and letters, training other staff.

Blue Mountains City Council

Project Management Officer
03.1995 - 09.1995

Council meetings officer including producing meeting agendas and minutes and attending meetings, liaising with councillors and other staff and other administration roles.

Paralegal

McPhee Kelshaw Solicitors
04.1994 - 03.1995

Secretarial role for 2 Solicitors including managing files, liaising with clients, further legal and software training.

Paralegal

Washington Flynn Solicitors
06.1990 - 04.1994

Managing litigation and conveyancing files, liaising with clients, and other administrative roles.

Transcript Typist

Spark Cannon
10.1989 - 03.1990

Producing court transcripts for various courts and training other staff.

Office Manager & Transcript Typist

Spark & Cannon And Court Recording Services
09.1988 - 09.1989

Managing busy office and staff and producing court transcripts for Local Court, running transcripts for circuit Supreme Court and Tribunals.

Legal Secretary

Hickson Lakeman & Holcombe And Dunhill Morgan
08.1981 - 08.1988

Beginning as a junior legal secretary, filing, dictaphone typing, liaising with clients, reception duties, managing files, undertaking legal and software training.

Education

Secretarial

Cambridge Secretarial College
Sydney, NSW
1981

High School Diploma -

Jannali Girls High School
Sydney, NSW
1980

Skills

Proficient in legal and administrative processes

Excellent client service

Ability to multitask

Outstanding verbal and written communication

Complaint resolution

Pitmans Shorthand & dictaphone

Proficient in Pexa, Leap, Evolve Go and other legal software, Word, internet, and quick learner of software packages

Justice of the Peace

Bushwalking, nature, animals, volunteering, keeping fit.

I consider myself to be an active and fit person who loves being out in nature, but is equally at home with her pets and friends.

Timeline

Paralegal

Benetatos White
03.2022 - Current

Paralegal

GJ Harris & Co
02.2018 - 01.2022

Paralegal

McKenzie Lawyers
01.2018 - Current

Paralegal

Robert Tinsey
01.2008 - 12.2017

Administrative Assistant

Women's Health NSW
10.2007 - 01.2008

Project Management Officer

Blue Mountains City Council
12.2006 - 08.2007

Paralegal

Robert Tinsey Solicitor
02.2006 - 12.2006

Paralegal

Benetatos White Solicitors
10.1995 - 01.2006

Blue Mountains City Council

Project Management Officer
03.1995 - 09.1995

Paralegal

McPhee Kelshaw Solicitors
04.1994 - 03.1995

Paralegal

Washington Flynn Solicitors
06.1990 - 04.1994

Transcript Typist

Spark Cannon
10.1989 - 03.1990

Office Manager & Transcript Typist

Spark & Cannon And Court Recording Services
09.1988 - 09.1989

Legal Secretary

Hickson Lakeman & Holcombe And Dunhill Morgan
08.1981 - 08.1988

Secretarial

Cambridge Secretarial College

High School Diploma -

Jannali Girls High School
Jocelyn Williams