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Associate of Science
Bachelor of Arts
Education
Family Law Paralegal
Provided administrative support to three attorneys and the office manager/chief paralegal.
- Drafted divorce complaints, marital dissolution agreements, motions, income and expense statements, and correspondence to opposing counsel and clients.
- Initiated client/attorney communications
- Edited and proofed firm website content.
- Legal research using Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw.
- Criminal Injuries Compensation specialist.
- Promoted from Receptionist to Family Law Legal Assistant in September 2006
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year at this job
Business Administration
Paralegal Studies
Juris Doctor
Family Law Paralegal
Served as a liaison for the client and attorney and assisted with initial interview;
- Prepared initial pleadings, judgments and orders in dissolution, legal separation, child custody and child support cases;
- Maintained attorney calendar, case files, and tracked time records for billing purposes;
- Scheduled appointments, court appearances, mediation & deposition hearings;
- Performed full range of paralegal tasks from case inception through discovery process, trial,
- Drafted, reviewed, and responded to OSC's, both moving and responding, subpoenas,
Candidate Info
years in workforce
year at this job
Paralegal Studies
Business Administration
Juris Doctor
Family Law Paralegal
Served as a liaison for the client and attorney and assisted with initial interview;
- Prepared initial pleadings, judgments and orders in dissolution, legal separation, child custody and child support cases;
- Maintained attorney calendar, case files, and tracked time records for billing purposes;
- Scheduled appointments, court appearances, mediation & deposition hearings;
- Performed full range of paralegal tasks from case inception through discovery process, trial,
- Drafted, reviewed, and responded to OSC's, both moving and responding, subpoenas,
Candidate Info
year in workforce
year at this job
Paralegal Studies
Primary Family Law Paralegal
Assisted Attorney with a case load of over 100 clients
- Prepared Petitions, Orders, Discovery Requests and Responses
- Prepared Trial Notebooks and assisted in Trial settings
- Assisted Attorney in effectively meeting deadlines
- Performed prospective client interviews
- Maintained good communication with clients, court staff, and opposing counsel
- Effectively managed Attorney's Court and appointment calendar
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years at this job
Criminal Justice
Family Law Paralegal
Prepared and filed petitions and summons, OSCs, notices of adverse interest, joinders, and judgment packages.
- Assisted senior attorneys in preparing for trials and hearings, and assembled trial notebooks with exhibits.
- Calendared hearing and trial dates.
- Prepared Dissomaster.
- Communicated with court to obtain continuances and hearing dates.
- Attended family law training and continuing education programs.
Candidate Info
years in workforce
year at this job
Paralegal Studies
Family Law Paralegal
Interviewed clients and assessed their needs for litigation
- Maintained case files and monitored cases
- Drafted and analyzed legal correspondence, petitions, pleadings, motions, legal notices
- Reviewed discovery requests and prepared comprehensive discovery packages which included disclosure statements, answers to interrogatories and production requests
- Prepared and compiled arbitrations, mediation and trial notebooks
- Liaison between attorneys, clients, law firms and government agencies
- Reconciled monthly reports
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month at this job
Paralegal Studies
Criminal Justice
BANKRUPTCY & FAMILY LAW PARALEGAL
Held initial meetings with bankruptcy clients to determine assets and needs and followed up on all cases.
- Coordinated with attorneys to maintain schedules and prepared attorney correspondence.
- Reassured clients and prepared them for meetings with attorneys and explained the bankruptcy process.
- Answered client questions and concerns and scheduled appointments with attorneys.
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months at this job
Business Administration
Family Law Paralegal
Prepared Complaints, Motions, Orders, Summary Judgments, Notice of Hearings, Separation Agreements, and Consent Orders
- Transcription, Court Docketing, Preparation of trial exhibits notebooks.
- Maintained juvenile case files for Guardian Ad Litem program.
- Performed Daily time slips entries into Amicus software system and prepared and mailed monthly client
- Maintained attorney calendar meeting, hearings and depositions
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year at this job
Psychology And Sociology
Juris Doctor
Family Law Paralegal
- Drafted and revised pleadings, memoranda, correspondences, and discovery requests and answers
- Assisted in trial preparation, and interviewed potential clients, clients and witnesses.
- Communicated with clients, witnesses, court personnel, and attorneys.
- Conducted legal and background research, and obtained pertinent material for each case.
- Performed administrative duties - phone assistance, scheduling, managing files and payments, court filing (Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties), and arranging proper service.
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year at this job
Paralegal
Paralegal
Legal Studies
Family Law Paralegal
Interviewed clients for case intake.
- Drafted correspondence, prepared pleadings and responded to discovery requests
- Scheduled attorney meetings and maintained calendar
- Organized invoices and prepared client bills
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years at this job
Criminal Justice
Business Administration
Paralegal Certification
Family Law Paralegal
Serve as curriculum and instruction resource advocate to special education and general education teachers.
- Conduct periodic classroom observations to ensure the implementation of I.E.P. goals and objectives and provide feedback to teachers in order to assist them with the improvement of instructional delivery.
- Submit documentation accurately and promptly, to meet state and district requirements.
- Serve as mentor teacher, several times in the past years and present.
- Perform duties as related to IDEA at all times.
- Maintain updates on Special Education policies, procedures and compliance issues.
- Organized and facilitated afterschool programs, in accordance to district policy with non-district program vendors.
- Served as afterschool administrator for all afterschool activities.
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years in workforce
years at this job
Legal Assisting
Family Law Paralegal
Drafted Legal Pleadings, Filed Documents at the Courthouse
- Reviewed and assisted clients with various pleadings
- Scheduled Hearings with Judicial Assistants, Mediators and Opposing Counsel
- Prepared Client's Bills and Invoices, Maintained client files
- Updated Client information, prepared monthly client list
- Constantly spoke with clients, opposing counsel, mediators and judicial assistants regarding cases and/or status, scheduled appointments with clients, opposing counsel etc
- Answered phones, filed, faxed and copied documents, processed incoming mail
- Processed Client Payments, Kept records of payments received
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years at this job
Sociology
Family Law Paralegal
Drafted pleadings for court and properly filing pleadings within the court system.
- Interacted with clients on a daily basis to ensure client satisfaction and efficiently completing work on each case.
- Drafted correspondence to opposing counsel, clients, judges, clerks, etc. for each case.
- Drafted discovery requests/responses and submitted responses within given deadlines.
- Prepared cases for trial by creating exhibit lists, exhibit books and ultimately organizing the file for the attorney.
- Filed paperwork and answered phones as necessary.
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years in workforce
years at this job
Arts, Paralegal Studies
Family Law Paralegal
- Answer and respond to all incoming client and attorney inquires; developed a file system for the firm’s caseload that improved efficiency and increased productivity.
- Handled all aspects of running a sole practitioner law office that handled an average 35 open cases at any given time.
- Utilized creative problem solving techniques and negotiated conflict while maintaining attorney-client confidentiality.
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months at this job
Applied Business Management
Paralegal
Family Law Paralegal
Drafted documents such as Letters, Affidavits, Petitions, Certificate of Service, Business Records Affidavits, Motions, Appeals, Writ of Execution, Memos, and Subpoenas.
- Managed documents that corresponded with the trials and appeals.
- Prepared discovery correspondence and gathered Exhibits from clients.
- Handled secretarial duties such as answering phones and greeting walk-in clients.
- Handled calendar for deadlines, court dates, meetings and initials.
- Notarized documents for the firm
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years at this job
Family Law Paralegal
Conducted client intakes, collecting case appropriate documents, and running internal conflict checks.
- Prepared freehand correspondence templates initiating or responding to a civil suit, discovery request, and mediation notice.
- Prepared freehand templates of Complaints, responsive pleadings, motions.
- Diligent and orderly when responding to discovery requests for civil actions such as divorce, child support, alimony, modifications of visitation and/or child support.
- Scheduled normal, emergency and special set hearings. Also scheduled family law mediation whether court ordered or voluntary.
- Maintained effective day to day communication in English and Spanish with the client.
- Communicated effectively with opposing counsel, judicial assistants, mediator appointment setters, and court reporters.
- Continual follow up with clients as to their discovery responses and meeting with the attorney for deposition.
Candidate Info
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years at this job
Arts
Family Law Paralegal
Prepare legal documents, including briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, and contracts.
- Prepare affidavits or other documents, maintain document file, and file pleadings with court clerk.
- Schedule appointments, court appearances/hearings, mediations and depositions.
- Filed and served all legal documents with the courts and opposing counsel.
- Provided administrative support which included managing diaries, organizing meetings, arranging travel, processing invoices, expenses and general departmental administration.
- Worked closely with clients to gather and organize supporting data.
- Managed training of new hires.
- Prepared general correspondence, memos, typing and proofreading documents.
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Science
Bachelor of Arts
Family Law Paralegal
Provide support for three attorneys by completing various tasks dependent on the circumstances of each case.
- Conduct legal research using Westlaw and Minnesota Statutes.
- Draft pleadings, motion documents, discovery requests, discovery responses,
- Prepare Witness Lists, Exhibit Lists, and trial exhibits.
- Conduct document review including financial documents.
- Complete various administrative tasks such as filing, faxing, indexing, organizing cases,
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