Lynne Ann Straw has over 30 years of experience as an administrative assistant, most recently working from 1992 to 2015 at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP. She provided support to various legal departments including product liability, medical malpractice, general litigation, commercial litigation, and land use/zoning. Her responsibilities included scheduling appointments, coordinating travel, maintaining case schedules and deadlines, communicating with clients, drafting legal documents, and conducting research. She also has a background in business administration and real estate.

1. LYNNE ANN STRAW
11 Hickory Nut Court
Baltimore, Maryland 21236
443-690-8474
Lynne.Straw@comcast.net
Experience: Administrative Assistant 11/ 1992 to 2/2015
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP1
7 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
 Handled duties for product liability lawyers by arranging, coordinating
and scheduling appointments, meetings, travel, maintaining trial schedule
of the department, maintained current status of all asbestos trial groups
from assignment to judgment to settlement and/or trial, communicated
with clients, typed complex correspondence, pleadings, appellant briefs,
memoranda and coordinating pretrial statements of multiple defendants for
lead counsel, compiling proposals and manuals for special project
presentations in the department, training and orienting new employees in
the department.
 Handled duties for medical malpractice lawyers by communicating,
arranging, coordinating, scheduling depositions, interviews with
physicians, nursing staff, claims representatives, attorneys, travel
arrangement, coordinate trial schedules, discovery deadlines of pending
cases, prepared subpoenas for medical records, maintained inventory of x-
rays, typed complex correspondence, drafted and prepared legal pleadings,
appellant briefs, memoranda, pretrial statements and compiling and
maintaining expert witness list.
 Handled duties for general litigation for defense of lead paint actions,
collection actions, landlords, auto tort, medical malpractice, researched
database and internet for experts, maintained forms file, prepared and
composed letters and pleadings, advising clients status of their cases
through visibility, billing, maintaining files, developed client list for
marketing, organized attorney for top performance in the litigation work
area, coordinating and scheduling depositions, property inspections,
coordinated calendar with other attorneys in the office as well as mail,
scan, fax and arrange for delivery of legal documents and correspondence
to clients, witnesses and court officials.
 Handled for commercial litigation for products liability actions, insureds
in premises liability auto tort and professional liability, evictions by
1Please note that I worked in several departments during my time with this employer so I used bullets to describe
each department that I worked in.

2. transcribing correspondence and documents from dictation tapes,
handwritten and typed drafts, communicating, arranging, coordinating,
scheduling depositions, following up with Clerk’s Office for summons,
motions, hearings, dismissals, maintaining trial schedule and court
deadlines, travel arrangements, typed complex correspondence, Hightailed
large documents to clients and attorneys, drafted and prepared legal
pleadings, organized and maintained client files and pleadings in binder in
both hard copy and electronic format, reviewing, organizing and
assembling documents and other materials obtained through discovery,
obtained information of experts from either database or internet, e-filing,
preparing court pleadings online and checking cases on the judiciary
website.
 Handled duties for land use and zoning attorneys concerning
administrative litigation and appellate work before hearing officers, board
of appeals and courts, checking court opinions relevant to the land use
group, county council bills, my neighborhood maps, researched land
records and state assessment tax records for new client/matter engagement
process in compliance with the firm standards, reconcile and prepare
attorneys’ expense reports, provided backup to other assistants, followed
deadlines for posting properties, prepared indexes for zoning hearings,
scheduling various appointments, set up prep sessions for zoning hearings,
worked with engineering firms, architects, planners, traffic engineers and
environmental consultants to achieve clients’ business objectives, CZMP
zoning, fundraising events, lobbying requirements, section meetings, and
travel arrangements.
Administrative Assistant 1980 to 1987
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP
7 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
 Handled duties for product liability attorneys which included coordinating
trial calendar, travel arrangement, created and update database for client,
compiling and analyzing various charts for clients on a monthly basis,
meeting with clients to discuss database created for the insurance coverage
throughout the United States, analyzed files coming into the office to
determine appropriate attorney (in-house or local attorney) for handling,
prioritize work assignment, preparation of correspondence, pleadings,
pretrial orders and other discovery procedures.
Education: Towson Senior High School – Major - Business 1971
Essex Community College - Major – Business 1972-1977
Carroll County Community College – Major – Real Estate 1992