(504) 555-0127 ◇ New Orleans, LA
marguerite.delacroix@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/marguerite-delacroix ◇ margueritedelacroix.com
Legal assistant with 7 years supporting litigation and commercial attorneys at a 40-lawyer firm, currently supporting 4 partners with a combined caseload of about 120 active matters. Maintains a 100% on-time filing record across 900 court and agency filings in 5 years, cut document preparation time 35% through a template and clause library, and manages calendars, deadlines, and client communication for matters worth about $60M in dispute. Keeps the attorneys in court on time, the clients informed, and the files in an order a partner can hand to opposing counsel with confidence.
Coursework in Constitutional Law, Legal Research and Writing, Business Law, Public Policy, and Professional Communication.
Also completed an e-discovery fundamentals course in 2022 and a Louisiana civil procedure update course in 2024.
- Support 4 litigation and commercial partners with a combined caseload of about 120 active matters worth about $60M in dispute at a 40-lawyer firm.
- Hold a 100% on-time record across 900 court and agency filings in 5 years and manage a docket of about 350 deadlines a year with 0 missed dates.
- Cut document preparation time 35% by building a template and clause library of 140 documents adopted by 12 legal assistants.
- Supported 3 attorneys on about 80 active insurance defence and commercial matters with about 200 filings a year.
- Organised discovery for 25 cases totalling about 400,000 pages in Relativity with a 99% indexing accuracy at attorney review.
- Entered and reviewed about 2,400 billing hours a year in prebills, cutting write-downs from billing errors 40%.
- Indexed and scanned 60 closed case files totalling about 30,000 pages during a 5-month internship.
- Prepared 40 correspondence and pleading drafts from templates with a 95% approval rate without revision.
- Received a full-time offer at the end of the 5-month internship based on the file indexing work.
Template and Clause Library. Built a library of 140 pleading, motion, discovery, and correspondence templates with standard clauses and a naming convention in iManage, reviewed by 4 partners and rolled out with 3 training sessions to 12 legal assistants, which cut document preparation time 35% and cut formatting corrections at attorney review 60%.
Firm Docketing Overhaul. Led the move from attorney-kept calendars to a central CompuLaw docket for 40 lawyers, entering 1,200 active deadlines with court rule calculations and setting up a weekly deadline report, which produced 0 missed deadlines in 3 years and passed a malpractice insurer review with 0 recommendations.
Commercial Trial Support. Managed trial preparation for a 3-week commercial trial, organising 800 exhibits, 30 deposition transcripts, and daily witness schedules, and running the trial presentation software, which delivered every exhibit on request with 0 delays and supported a verdict for the client.
- Member of a legal assistants association chapter, serving on the education committee since 2022.
- Volunteer intake assistant at a legal aid clinic, about 6 hours a month.
- Play in a community jazz band, performing at about 15 events a year.
- Lead a legal assistant team of 12 informally as the senior assistant, owning templates, docketing standards, and onboarding.
- Trained 7 new legal assistants and 4 summer associates on filing, docketing, and document management.
- Serve on the firm technology committee representing legal support staff in software decisions.

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