Lisa Meyers

Legal Administrative Professional with over Twenty-Five Years of experience. Encouraging and analytical problem-solver with talents for leading and motivating, as well as excellent client relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact firm success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Legal Secretary - Balzarini & Watson

(2025-11)

• Part time Legal Secretary to Edward Balzarini, Jr. and Laura Balzarini.
• Transcription of correspondence and pleadings, filing pleading electronically with courts, securing medical records and scheduling depositions

Office Manager - LaGamba Reporting - Murrysville, PA

(2013-11 - 2025-06)

• Manage all schedules, production of transcripts, invoicing and rebills for all.
• Train and assign and oversee workload of two part-time employees.
• Respond to all incoming emails, maintain all scheduling of depositions and confirmations of same, phones, production and mailings of transcripts, invoicing, rebills, ordering supplies, maintaining office equipment etc.
• Zoom Tech, monitoring and sharing exhibits during zoom depositions and assisting with technical difficulties.
• Client relations and securing new clients.

Legal Secretary – Two Partners - Pion Johnston Nerone Girman Clements & Smith P.C. - Pittsburgh, PA

(2011-04 - 2013-01)

Support shareholders and partners involved in transportation litigation including insurance defense. Reason for Leaving: I injured my back and was off work per my physician, when I was released to return to work, I was advised that both partners had suddenly left the firm and returned to their old firm. I was offered unemployment and in a short period of time I was offered a part-time overflow assistant position to return to the firm and returned until I began working with LaGamba full-time.

• Transcription, preparing draft pleadings, correspondence etc.
• Calendaring, filing, phones
• Attorney time entry, e-filing with local and federal courts
• Opening and closing files
• Scheduling of depositions, mediations, flights, hotel reservations
• Administrative work and other duties

Part-time Transcriptionist - LaGamba Reporting

(2011-06 - 2013-11)

• Work from home projects involving production of deposition transcripts, proofreading against audio/video, as-needed basis.

Overflow Assistant - Pion, Nerone, Girman, Winslow & Smith, P.C. - Pittsburgh, PA

(2013-01 - 2013-11)

• Part-Time Overflow secretary to all attorneys in firm.
• Transcription, scheduling depositions, entering attorneys billable time, preparing pleading for filing, Electronic filing of Pleadings, copying, mailing and inner office filing.
• Offer a full-time position by LaGamba Reporting.

Transcriptionist - Clarion City Counsel

(2010-01 - 2011-01)

• Part-time self-employment - Transcription for Clairton City Council of their monthly meetings.
• Used Express Scribe and transcribed tapes that were mailed to be by City Counsel.
• Upon completion all were sent electronically back to City Council.

Legal Secretary-Paralegal Duties – Partner & Associate - Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman, PC

(2010-05 - 2011-03)

Support partner involved as mediator for the Federal Court and associates involved in civil litigation including labor and employment law, construction law, and civil rights. Reason for Leaving: Offered a better position with better pay.

• Dictation, preparing drafts of letters, pleadings, electronic filing with the courts, deposition and hearing summaries
• Calendaring, entering time, timekeeping for the paralegal duties
• E-filing in Federal Court, scheduling mediation, preparing ADR documents for filing
• Opening & closing files, filing, organization of files and administrative functions

Legal Secretary - Two Partners and Two Associates - Maiello, Brungo & Maiello LLP

(2008-11 - 2010-05)

Support 2 partners and 2 associates involved in commercial real estate and construction law. Offered a better position with a pay increase of double what I was making.

• Dictation, Preparing and Redline changes to various school contracts, leases and sales contracts
• Scheduling from Outlook and Abacus, preparing pleadings, complaints, motions, briefs
• E-filing and various court filings, filing and organization for files

Transcriptionist - Poisel Transcription

(2007-09 - 2007-09)

• Assignments for transcription of legal documents, HR documents, various others from home.
• Part-time, as-needed basis, transcribing audio files, closed captions, meetings with multiple speakers etc.
• Equipment: Express Scribe, Wave Pedal, Headset, High Speed Internet with Cable hookup

Legal Secretary - Matis Baum Rizza O'Connor - Pittsburgh, PA

(2005-08 - 2007-09)

Support partner and associate involved in medical malpractice firm. Reason for Leaving: Extreme problem pregnancy and multiple medical issues after the birth of my son.

• Dictation from audio wav equipment of letters, pleading, chronologies, deposition summaries
• Court filing in various counties, including e-filing
• Scheduling meetings, depositions, travel arrangements
• Calendaring incoming mail, filing, opening, closing files any and all file organization with cases, overflow work when available

Legal Secretary - Edgar Snyder & Associates, LLC

(2004-01 - 2005-01)

Support Associate Attorney. Reason for Leaving: Not a good fit after my move from Florida. I contacted an employment agency and secured my position with Matis Baum Rizza O'Connor.

• Dictation, filing, answering phone and handling client phone calls, preparing letters
• Litigation documents including Complaints, Interrogatories, Summons, Notices
• Scheduling depositions, scheduling client meetings and ordering and following up on medical records

Office Manager, Satellite Law Office - Steven A Bagen & Associates - Ocala/Gainesville, FL

(2001-01 - 2004-01)

Managed our satellite office, four employees as well as overseeing maintenance, ordering supplies, overseeing IT, opening and closing the office, overseeing security issues and overseeing employee conduct, attendance and productivity. Additionally, I was our Central Florida Investigator for new clients. Reason for Leaving: Got married and moved to Pittsburgh, PA.

• Managed satellite office, four employees as well as overseeing maintenance, ordering supplies, overseeing IT, opening and closing the office, overseeing security issues and overseeing employee conduct, attendance and productivity.
• Investigated potential new cases for a personal injury firm, met with potential clients and did interviews
• Took scene and injury photographs of new clients, prepared brief summaries of new cases
• Retrieval of documentation necessary for new cases (ie: accident reports, autopsies, criminal records)
• Traveled to several surrounding counties to meet with clients and/or secure accident scene and vehicle photographs

Litigation Paralegal/Litigation Office Manager - Steven A Bagen & Associates - PA, Gainesville, FL

(1992-01 - 2001-01)

Supported managing attorney of the litigation department (Plaintiff), supervisor of the litigation department. Oversaw the productivity and case load for six legal assistants as well as support staff such as file clerk, receptionist and overflow typist. Additionally, I had my own caseload for which I prepared cases for trial, prepared all legal documents. Transferred to Satellite office to manage that office and become the Central Florida Investigator for the firm.

• Oversee the productivity and case load for six legal assistants as well as support staff such as file clerk, receptionist and overflow typist.
• Prepared cases for trial, prepared all legal documents (ie: Complaints, Discovery, Deposition Notices, Notices for Trial, Interrogatories, Request to Produce etc.).
• Prepared files for Mediation, which included reviewing medical records, getting outstanding medical balances, assisting with and meeting with clients to complete discovery, Interrogatories and/or Request for Production
• Assisting the attorney with any trial preparation necessary, scheduling depositions, mediations etc.
• Managing the litigation office included review of all litigation cases on a monthly basis.

Paralegal Studies - Paralegal Studies - Webster Business College (1985-01 - 1985-01)

High School Diploma - Newnan High School (1984-01 - 1984-01)