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0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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,
0-5 years of experience
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,
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
- 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.
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
- 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.
0-5 years of experience
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
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
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.
0-5 years of experience
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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