Michael Mendoza has over 15 years of experience in legal records management, file clerking, and administrative support roles. He is proficient in various legal software programs and has worked for many large law firms in Los Angeles, California. His responsibilities have included computer data entry, scanning and organizing documents, file maintenance, photocopying, and providing clerical assistance to legal teams.
1. MICHAEL MENDOZA
2256 West Farlington Street, West Covina, CA. 91790 (626) 252-5300
SKILLS
Microsoft Office ∙ Prolaw ∙ Data Entry ∙ Elite ∙ Filekeeper ∙ Scanning Software ∙ Legal Filing
Systems ∙ Practice Advantage ∙ Timeslips
EXPERIENCE
Temporary Records Clerk, General Offices Clerk, Legal Secretary, 11/07 – Present
Records Management assignments at firms such as Carroll Burdick & McDonough, LLP;
Hornberger & Brewer, LLP; McKenna, Long, & Aldridge, LLP; Munger, Tolles, &
Olson, LLP; Tucker, Ellis & West, LLP; Mendes & Mount, LLP; Law Offices of Nanci
Freeman; Northern Trust Bank; Greenberg Glusker; Duff & Phelps; Dordick Law;
Milbank, Morrison Foerster, Murchison & Cumming; in Los Angeles, CA:
• Workers Comp. Filing: Indexing Court Documents & Medical Reports
• File Management, Excel, Filing Legal Documents to the Courts, Editing Legal
Documents & Letters, Indexes to Cases, Searching & Receiving Files for Attorneys.
• Photocopying, Faxing, Sending out mail & sorting mail for Attorneys. Scanning
Documents into the computer data base system. Reception Relief.
• Conducting Inventory to order more supplies, such as paper, pens, etc.
RECORDS CLERK, 4/06-1/07
Sonnett & Associates, LLP; Los Angeles, CA
• Computer data entry using Prolaw
• File management: searching & receiving files for Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, &
Paralegals. Organizing and filing legal documents and send files to offsite storage.
• Scanning legal documents into Prolaw
• Faxing documents and distributing incoming mail
• General administrative office duties as needed
TEMPORARY LEGAL RECORDS CLERK, WORD PROCESSOR & DOCUMENT CODER, 2/05-
1/07
Completed several document coding and records management assignments at firms such as
Tucker Ellis & West; Quinn Emanuel LLP; Buchalter Nemer LLP and O'Melveny & Myers
LLP in Los Angeles, CA:
• File management: searching & receiving files for Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, &
Paralegals. Organizing and filing legal documents and send files to offsite storage.
• Preparing files for court calendar & depositions.
• Computer Data management; typing information from documents into the computer
database. Scanning and editing legal documents into the database and burning the
documents onto CDs. Organize files using Filekeeper and Accutrac.
• Editing legal documents and transferring them to offsite storage
• Photocopying legal documents, faxing and logging in faxes.
• Computer data entry and general administrative office duties as needed
2. LEGAL RECORDS CLERK, 1/04-2/05
Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA (Contract Position)
• Computer data entry
• File legal documents
• Using ELITE program to input necessary information
• Train other temporary employees
• Transfer legal documents to an offsite storage
L.A. County District Attorney's Office – Internship
Citrus Courthouse Victim -Witness Assistant Program
General Office Clerk, West Covina, CA. 8/01 to 11/02
Duties: Read and analyze criminal reports, send introduction letters to victims,
assist victims with court documents. Answer phone calls from victims. Conduct
intake interviews. General office duties, computer data base management, explain
and instruct public regarding various court procedures.
EDUCATION
MT. SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE, WALNUT, CA
A.A. Paralegal Studies (ABA-Approved Paralegal Degree), May 2001