Marissa Denise Diaz

• Practice in contentious Civil work, inclusive of Judicial review, Estate Planning, Family, Tort, Personal Injury and Property related matters
• Single Instructing Attorney providing support to Senior Advocate Attorney
• Plan, organize and supervises work of the firm's legal secretary and process server
• Review, draft and vet and/or file legal documents including but not limited to applications, pleadings, affidavits, contracts and legal letters

Supervision of Legal Research Officer

Providing advice on files from the Civil Law Department

Preparing advice for the Freedom of Information Designate of the Ministry and drafting of responses for Freedom of Information requests

Assisting with the preparation of speaking notes for the Hon. Attorney General

Preparing responses to Parliamentary questions

Drafting Ministerial Orders

Drafting Instruments of Appointments and Revocations

Drafting Cabinet Notes

Drafting contracts

Drafting letter correspondences

• Administrative Office Support including, inter alia responding to emails, liaising with staff from other departments
• Stationery and cleaning materials
• Financial Administrative support including Banner Finance payments
• Creating an electronic filing depository

• Working closely with government agencies, private companies, diplomatic corps, NGOs, security, accounting, marketing, IT, event planning and publication teams
• Coordination and drafting of all correspondence for Manager
• Flagging and prioritizing all requests and calendar events
• Planning, marketing and execution of modules and diplomatic dialogues offered by the DAOC
• Maintains office matters and all administrative duties
• Supervises and assigns tasks to clerical assistant
• Assisting with revision of module manuals
• Assisting with contracts for facilitators and other company vendors

• Company Overview: Lexis House, UK
• Delivery of library lectures to first year law students on the use of LexisNexis as a platform for legal research
• Delivery of Basic/Advanced LexisNexis Certification
• Offers additional training sessions to students, faculty staff and law offices on legal research, use of LexisNexis in the production of case law analysis, academic paper writing and case note writing
• Promotion of LexisNexis products as part of the premier legal research system
• Communicate with student groups (Law Society association, Moot Competitions etc.) to promote Lexis Advance Quicklaw , and identify training opportunities
• Overall Liaison between LexisNexis and law school students, faculty, administrators, and staff
• Lexis House, UK

• Conducting research and preparing literature reviews, presentations, diplomatic dialogues
• Assisting lecturers with lecture materials in areas in International Trade, Law, Diplomacy, Small state behavior and Regional integration
• Acting as a liaison between post graduate students and Institute - aiding with research projects/courses/assignments
• Assisting Professor of Practice with the design of new course in International Diplomacy

• Company Overview: Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
• Maintain Relationships with Government Revenue Agencies and Vendors
• Assist and manage overlooking daily operations for the department
• Bank reconciliations of 150 cash and general ledger accounts in the Caribbean
• Preparation of documents for the repatriation of funds for Treasury
• Maintenance of taxation manuals for all twelve (12) countries and the creation of new manuals for additional consolidated countries
• Responsible for the preparation of all ticket, VAT and payroll Taxes for twelve (12) countries within the Caribbean
• Conduct Balance of Payments reports and statistical surveys to government agencies
• Audit account receivables functions: cash flow projections, general ledger, and bank entries
• Training of staff in Miami for office consolidation
• Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

• Company Overview: Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
• Charged with processing and reconciling travel agency sales, refunds and memos for Mexico, Caribbean, Latin America, and Canada
• Processing of receivables for travel agencies across the Caribbean
• Providing accounting and clerical support to the Accounting Controller and other management staff
• Preparation and control for variances explanations
• Data entry coding control for accurate account charges
• Duly care of weekly cash flow projections
• Monthly reporting and general ledger analysis of accounts reconciliation
• Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

• Negotiate customer arrears/offer arrears management advice
• Enter and update weekly reports
• Credit sanctioning of accounts
• Approval and Investigation of hire purchase contracts