Candace Roni has over 20 years of experience as a legal secretary. She has extensive skills in MS Office, legal software such as Elite and Amicus, and electronic court filing systems. Her experience includes preparing documents such as pleadings, discovery, motions, and correspondence for various courts at large national law firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1. Candace Roni
12900 McLaren Street, Norwalk, California 90650; 562-360-7806
Education: San Jose State University, Masters of Art
University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, Bachelor of Music (B.M.); Bachelor of Education in Music
Skills: MS Office 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); Elite; Legal Solutions; electronic court
filing (eFiling/ECF): LexisNexis File & ServeXpress, Orange County Complex, U.S.D.C.
Central District, U.S. Bankruptcy; Smart Rules; Amicus; DM/Hummingbird
Professional Experience: Temp Legal Secretary, 4/15 – 8/15
Temping at large national firm with Chairman of Department, practice group in insurance defense, ERISA, and
complex business litigation. Covering, clearing back-logged desk, preparing correspondence, pleadings, mediation
briefs, calendaring with Edockets, legal forms with FormsWorkFlow, time entry with LawTime, utilizing NetDocs,
Citrix, Citationware, processing electronic discovery, filing with LASC, USDC Southern District, USDC Central
District and USDC Eastern District. Creating and maintaining partner cases chart with hearing, MSJ and trial dates.
Creating Powerpoint presentations for partner media seminars. Preparing trial, exhibit, deposition binders utilizing
Excel. Processing of attorney expenses. Working overflow for department if any down time.
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Los Angeles Legal Secretary, 7/06 – 10/14
Prepared, served and filed pleadings for Superior, District and Bankruptcy Courts. Efiled with LexisNexis File &
Servexpress asbestos litigation in Los Angeles; eFiled in Superior Court – Orange County Complex Cases; efiled in
U.S.D.C. Central District of California; efiled in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California. Prepared,
converted, served, filed discovery, subpoenas, stipulations, objections, responses, trial documents, trial briefs, motions
for summary judgment, mandatory settlement conference briefs, motions in limine. Prepared, served correspondence to
clients, co-counsel, opposing counsel, and courts. Prepared hearing, trial, deposition, witness and settlement
conference binders. Timekeeping with Elite; prepared and edited PowerPoint slide presentations for trial; created,
edited Excel settlement matrices. Prepared, filed and tracked settlement of cases with Requests for Dismissals, Notice
of Entry of Dismissals, and prepared same with Legal Solutions. Reviewed, edited client billing appeals for resub-
mission to same. Researched, analyzed and evaluated State of California document production, over eighteen boxes,
for environmental litigation, and produced substantive, definitive document roster. Researched, analyzed and evaluated
materials for client data submission.
Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, Los Angeles Legal Secretary, 8/04 – 6/06
Prepared, formatted, edited and served pleadings for Superior, U.S.D.C. and Appellate Courts; prepared, edited and
served discovery, subpoenas, coordination of Notices to Consumers/ Employers, subpoena service, scheduling of
records copying; prepared and served arbitration, mediation briefs, settlement agreements, stipulations, objections and
responses. Prepared and served correspondence; calendared utilizing Amicus.
Bate, Peterson, Deacon, Zinn & Young LLP, Los Angeles Legal Secretary, 7/03 – 8/04
Prepared and served pleadings for Superior and District Courts; prepared, edited, and served discovery, subpoenas,
arbitration and mediation briefs, settlement agreements, stipulations. Prepared, served correspondence to/for clients,
opposing counsel. Calendaring for partner and associate.
Coudert Brothers LLP, Los Angeles Legal Secretary, 9/97 – 7/03
Prepared, edited, served pleadings for Superior, District and Appellate Courts; wrote, prepared discovery; analyzed,
prepared, formatted settlement matrices with Excel; prepared Notices of Mediation, prepared initiating mediation
correspondence to participating parties post Court referral, scheduled mediation, and calendared same; prepared
mediation agreements, non-agreement statements for filing with Courts. Prepared, formatted settlement matrices in
Excel. Prepared hearing, trial, settlement, mediation and witness binders. Prepared and served correspondence to
opposing counsel, clients, and carriers.
Lillick & Charles, San Francisco Legal Secretary, 4/93 – 8/97
Prepared correspondence, discovery, pleadings for service and filing in U.S.D.C. and Superior Court. Wrote, prepared
initial discovery, prepared, edited probate notices, distribution matrices. Prepared, formatted and wrote monthly billing
correspondence, submitted ensuing collections reports. Analyzed, prepared and submitted business promotion and
expenses reports materials for partners and various committees.