Marisa Teel is an executive legal assistant with over 15 years of experience. She has supported attorneys across various practice areas, including transactional law, corporate law, finance, litigation and more. Her responsibilities have included preparing legal documents, organizing client files, scheduling meetings, and assisting with business development. She is proficient in Microsoft Office, various legal software programs, and has certifications in paralegal studies and Microsoft applications.

1. MARISA D. TEEL
405 NORTH WABASH AVE., UNIT 505, CHICAGO, IL 60611
(312) 890-0115 • marisa_teel@yahoo.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Executive Legal Assistant with more than 15 years of experience preparing various legal documents and tasks for
the Transactional, Corporate, Finance, Labor, Trusts, Litigation, Estate Planning, and Mergers and Acqusitions
departments within the law firm setting. Polished and articulate legal professional who has supported Practice
Group Leaders, Senior Partners and Marketing Partners for major law firms. Always maintain a high level of
confidentiality concerning all aspects of attorneys’ practice and assist in business development opportunities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
LEGAL ASSISTANT:
 Processed transactional corporate documents and correspondence, review, revise, stylize, insert automatic numbering,
create headers and footers, run redline on various different versions, and proofread for perfection.
 Organized client files, prepared filing on weekly basis, also maintained electronic filing system.
 Prepared Stock Certificates, upkeep of Corporate Minute Book, and keep updates in firm vault.
 Reviewed and revised estate planning documents, large family trusts, and assisted with high networth family issues.
 Enabled smooth transition with China Corporate Practice Group’s documents, printed and compiled large corporate
document production utilizing compilation of Chinese and English documents, printed in color for entire group,
organized travel to Hong Kong and Shanghai, China, and converted Yen into Dollars for attorney’s reimbursements.
 Scheduled meetings using Outlook calendar, utilized Schedule Assistant to determine if other attorneys were available
for meetings, send invite to attorneys and clients for meetings and conference calls, set up national and international
conference calls, send out via email the confirmation of the dial in number and PIN number for each conference call.
 Set up meetings in conference rooms, ordered catered lunches,worked with various food vendors, obtained food receipts
and followed through with accounting for timely payment and assign correct client/matter number.
 Provided telephone coverage for attorneys by taking detailed messages, able to provide answers to clients’ questions in
a professional and efficient manner, if attorney was out of town would then ask that a team member return the call.
 Ran conflict searches, typed up engagement letters and send to client requesting they sign and date the letter and return
to office, then scan the engagement letter into the document management program and open up new client matters,
prepare new files, inform team of new client matter number, and maintained a detailed list of all client matter numbers
that were opened and closed, also maintained a closed file list within the firm or send offsite to storage.
 Entered attorneys time into DTE or Carpe Diem, ran monthly reports from DTE/Carpe Diem to show attorneys their
monthly billable and non-billable hours, also tracked CLE hours.
 Instrumental in preparing speeches given by attorneys and utilized PowerPoint presentations for Continuing Legal
Education (CLE) and for other events in which clients attended and participated in.
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT:
 Organized numerous meetings and conference calls from Pacific Time zone to London and Luxembourg time zones
with 30 plus people. Heavy use of scheduling assistant to determine who was available for meetings and
conference calls. Coordinate with other EA’s to determine correct date and time for meetings.
 Heavy use of Concur for national and international travel arrangements; coordinated airfare to arrive within 30
minutes of meeting schedule; organized limos to and from airports; organized car rentals and hotel reservations at
a moment’s notice as attorney needed to arrive earlier for meetings.
 Use of Concur to prepare expense reports for attorneys and risk managers; uploaded travel and lunch receipts into
Concur and prepared monthly expense reports.
 Worked closely with Altour Travel Agency for receipt of travel itineraries and attached travel itinerary to calendar.
 Prepared legal binders with legal documents, sale agreements and various legal documents; prepared Table of
Contents and tabs to streamline documents.
 Updated a log of all real estate closings and filed the thumb drive in binders.
 Collaborated closely with other EA’s from various U.S. offices to provide conference call availability with the
executives and attorneys in company-wide meetings and video conference calls, then set up call and send invites.
 Worked with IT Department to arrange video conference calls and reserving only the conference rooms that have
video capability, also prepared GoToMeeting video conference calls and inserted into calendar invite which
provided the dial in number and PIN number.

2. MARISA D. TEEL
405 NORTH WABASH AVE., UNIT 505, CHICAGO, IL 60611
(312) 890-0115 • marisa_teel@yahoo.com
CAREER HISTORY
Addison Group (temp agency) – Executive Legal Assistant – Chicago, IL 2016 - Present
Miller Canfield – Legal Assistant – Chicago, IL 2013 – 2015
Loeb & Loeb LLP – Legal Assistant – Chicago, IL 2010 – 2013
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP – Legal Assistant – Chicago, IL 2005 – 2009
Seyfarth Shaw LLP – Legal Assistant & Assistant Recruiter – Chicago, IL 2001 – 2005
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Roosevelt University – Chicago, Illinois - ABA Approved Paralegal Studies Program –
5th Year Post-Baccalaureate Paralegal Certificate - January, 2016
MicroTrain University – Chicago, Illinois – Microsoft Certification
James Madison University – Harrisonburg, VA - Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) – Psychology
Radford University, Radford, VA – majored in Fashion Design
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office • Carpe Diem & DTE • Chrome River • Interaction • Concur (travel & expenses)
NuancePDF • Adobe Acrobat • iManage • Interwoven Desksite • Hummingbird • Change-Pro
Relativity • CS Disco • Case Map • Time Map • Text Map • Concordance • LexisNexis • Westlaw •e-Filing