Experienced bilingual legal assistant, translator, and project coordinator with over 17 years in legal, marketing, and administrative roles. Adept at managing complex translation projects and providing comprehensive legal support in Italian, English, and French.
Proficient in translating legal documents, court evidence, and contracts in Italian and English with high accuracy.
Skilled in communicating fluently in Italian, English, and French across legal, corporate, and educational settings.
Experience coordinating translation projects, legal support tasks, and marketing campaigns efficiently.
Expert in providing legal assistance, document review, and client liaison for law firms and corporate legal departments.
TB (Tabitha Consulting)
Managing my own translation projects and assignments as a Translator for a variety of agencies, companies and direct clients, for law firms, independent companies/corporations/legal entities, individuals, Government, retail/fashion businesses, other businesses, and dealing directly with the agents, owners or clients as well as collaborating with translators or working on teams of translators;. Translating legal documentation, legal agreements, court proceedings, legal-financial documents, Government-related documentation; Translating medical and technical documents; researching, reviewing and translating complex terminology within the life sciences industry for pharmaceutical and clinical trial documentation, patient and/or general medical records;. Editing legal, business, literary documentation, copy-editing and proofreading higher-education textbooks in Italian and English for publishing agencies; Translating literary works, synopses or literary materials for book/media publications;. Interpreting in arbitrations and depositions, interpreter for business presentations and meetings, workers’ compensation, past medical interpreter; interpreting face-to-face and by phone or remotely.
Koch, Koch, Bennett & Buono Law Offices
Provided escrow assistance work by sending out escrow amounts from properties and past sales or purchases due to clients; Performed research, compiling detailed customer information regarding property in question to draw up reports;. Directly communicated with buyers or sellers by phone, also communicating with attorneys when applicable; wrote and mailed out checks and coordinated for clients to meet with attorneys; updated the database to close matters (at least 20), and cooperated with other office staff when applicable.
Certificate in International Marketing
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Adept at executing marketing strategies, market research, and client outreach in international settings.
Frank Alessio & Partners, Inc.
Compiling and reviewing evidence/correspondence in Italian and English pertaining to ongoing lawsuits; Interfacing with lawyer, advisor and company representatives; translating court documents into English;. Creating Purchase Orders and reviewing Contracts between Owner and Contractor and Contractor and Subcontractor, etc.;. Interfacing with Head of Accounting in Italy, using language skills, creating balance sheets for Italian vendors;. Devising entire Accounts payable/receivable system from scratch to organize invoices, pay suppliers, keep track of money, provide status updates to owner and PMs regarding payments due to suppliers and contractors, utilizing QuickBooks for reference and retrieval of all accounting-related documentation, contracts and payments, resolving and disputing charges on invoices or POs.
Adecco USA (Triumph Learning)
Assisted within the Editorial, Production and Graphic Design Departments becoming the go-to person to aid numerous editors, production and project managers, designers etc. on the urgent turnaround of projects, including first-time live digital publication of the company’s products, also assisting with audio-visual editing;. Collaborated closely with supervising editors and senior editors on executing company’s digital products.
Update Legal, Tower Legal Staffing
Paralegal in law firms and companies for various agencies in New York City.. Summarized 50 Italian retail office leases into English, communicating with overseas Italian Counsel by telephone and email.
LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
Managed contract databases and filed hundreds of confidential customer and partner contract electronic and hard copy files;. Acted as the administrative sales coordinator, processing contracts in electronic and paper formats back to new and existing customers, vendors and partners; provided assistance with booking software requests (POs and RFQs), and shipping;. Sent out marketing communications to customers in multiple languages and translated marketing materials and MSSA into Italian; reported to VP Corporate Development, Director of Legal Affairs.
Promofirenze, Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence, Italy
Launched global marketing campaign of investment opportunities in the territory of Florence, made sales calls, sent out newsletters to over 300 investors; called Florentine Tour Operators to sell the Chamber’s online services, www.meetinflorence.it;. Assisted with onsite/offsite conferences and seminars with local businesses and Tour Operators, interpreting in Italian, French and English; translated financial documentation upon request of the President of the Chamber.
Salans LLP
Met with lawyers to carry out research marketing on deals; Researched and compiled deal lists, generated values from Elite and compiled and distributed them into bi-monthly Excel business reports to about 50 lawyers;. Researched, updated and improved all marketing collateral (New York and international practice and office descriptions, biographies, brochures) in print and on shared Web marketing database;. Managed all aspects of event planning (conferences, seminars, speaking engagements), including annual client holiday party of 200 invitees, and used personal connections to provide for the party’s entertainment activities;. Wrote press releases and distributed them to local press and foreign offices and maintained media contacts in New York and abroad; increased attorney visibility through publication of legal articles;. Negotiated discounts and cooperated with external vendors (designs firms, print shops) on design and distribution of New York office’s marketing templates, and managed inventory.
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP
As personal assistant to the managing partner of the Italian office, served as liaison with clients and colleagues worldwide, using Italian and English on a daily basis, translated confidential client documents into English, and provided full administrative support (including word processing, document management, scheduling, client billing, etc.) for this partner, other Italian attorneys, and clients during their long-term stays in the New York office; supported one IP partner and four attorneys in corporate department;. Accepted added responsibilities as Marketing Assistant, which included: Researching and reporting company data on prospective clients, compiling marketing brochures, preparing press releases and the Italian media list, training secretaries to assist their partners with contact management for sales, and general administrative support for the department;. Assisted in translation from Italian to Spanish of a legal opinion regarding a dispute between a Cuban and Italian company.
Dendrite International Inc, Pfizer Department
Provided international assistance to English- and French-speaking clinical investigators and nurses with complex computer applications, including customer service and troubleshooting computer software and hardware problems; handled an average of 60 inbound calls per week; recorded a total of 387 cases in Clin Trak application;. Generated weekly U.S. and global numbers and created Pfizer reports, and internal weekly progression help-desk performance reports; created illustrations and written instructions on help desk reports for desk manual; recognized for perfect attendance.
Berlitz Languages, Inc.
Taught beginner- as well as intermediate-level Italian and English classes to students of all ages and backgrounds.
