1. Katia Yaacoub El Zein
Rabwe – Lebanon Email :katiayacoub@hotmail.com
Tel: 00961 70 836923 Married - 1 child
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXPERIENCE
March-September2015: Legal Assistant - Abou Chedid & Associates Law Firm
 Same tasks as below mentioned
2003-2013 : Legal Assistant – Abou Chedid & Asmar Law Firm
Responsibilities:
 Drafting all documents and requested governmental forms for the
registration of companies, and business enterprises, as well as for the
registration of all trademarks with the Ministry of economy.
 Accomplishing all memorandums and minutes requested for companies
and enterprises.
 Drafting requested rental, employments contracts and warning letters, as
well as all other simple judicial lists.
 Preparing the clients invoices, arrange in alphabetical order the clients
files as well as for their files in computer system in order to facilitate the
lawyer’s work and search.
 Accomplishing all required services in meetings, interviews, telephone
consultations, correspondence, holding the lawyer’s agenda, assists the
lawyer’s in their legal research.
 Caring of the lawyer’s mail, correction of the judicial lists presented to
courts
 Management and organization of the cabinet finance. Therefore, solving
all the cabinet problems.
 Communicate, handle and receive all correspondences and notes from
the clients and caring of the lawyer’s mail.
 Following up client cases procedure.
 Managing and filling law cases and all other documents of comparable
nature.
 Drafting official letters for municipalities, and governmental services.
2000-2002 : Secretary at Abdallah Basbous Law Firm - Beirut
 Supervising correspondence for customers
 Looking for the good function, the organization of secretaryship
and management of the cabinet, as well of the lawyer's agenda.
 Receiving Guests
 Answering the phone calls

2. 1998 – 2000 : Director Secretary at the lawyers' cabinet of Me Georges Assaf –
Beirut
Organization and management of the cabinet. Also joined the Human
Rights Institute where I became familiar with preparation and organization
of symposiums and international conferences.
Responsibilities:
 Typing all judicial lists to be presented to law courts, and some of
the international conventions.
 Arranging the clients file in alphabetical order
 Responsible of distributing the cases sent from the government for
lawyers at the legal assist committee.
 Organizing the legal assist committee files alphabetically.
 Assist the Human Rights Institute crew in preparing the
conferences by caring of the invitations, cooperate the guests
invitedatthedays of conference, be in attendanceinthe conference
days to give assist whenever it needs.
1997 – 1998 : Secretary at Bathish Assurance Agency – Beirut
Responsibilities:
 Receiving Guests
 Answering the phone calls
 Arranging insurance policies
 Typing the experts report
INTERNSHIP
 Dealing with over-work and meeting deadlines
 Working under stress
 Able to learn fast and working immediatelly in professionnel way
EDUCATION
Primary School : St. Rosaire's School (UAE)
Secondary School : St Famille's School in Lebanon
Institute of Byblos : Certificate of secretary
COMPUTER SKILLS
 Microsoft Office product (Excel, Word, Power Point), Internet, scanner, fax.
 Al Maktabi program (laywers data), Al Mousanaf and Mustashar programs (law data for
researches)
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LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, French, Arabic

3. WORKSHOPS
 In 2001 Iprepared a research about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was published on
the human rights institute site.
 As well for the percentage of the unemployment in Lebanon and the drugs, also both
subjects were published on the human rights institute site.
 I write spiritual books, my first one was published in April 2009 under name "LAMASAT
ILAHI" in order to publish the second one next year.
INTERESTS
 Reading
 Walking
 Music