Joy L. King, FRP

***** *** **** ****, ********, VA 20175

Cellular: 561/633-2231, aca20m@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To obtain career employment in the legal field with a firm that utilizes my

technical skills/abilities that have been obtained through implementation

over the past twenty-one (21) years. I am a highly motivated, quick

learning individual with the ability to work as a team player and/or

independently as the task at hand requires. I am a person who can multi-

task and manage voluminous (200 +) caseloads with ease. I have the

ability/skills to manage multiple case types: construction defect defense,

commercial insurance defense, wrongful death defense, personal injury (slip

and fall), and plaintiff work. I have the knowledge to work in multiple

Court Venues/Jurisdictions (i.e. State - Civil, County, Complex Business

Litigation, Family, Federal, Appellate and Supreme Court of Florida). I

have acquired the knowledge of the Rules and Requirements for the different

Court Venues.

QUALIFICATIONS

Florida Registered Paralegal (with continuing CLE credits), Florida Notary

Public, Client Profiles CX (Client Profiles), Microsoft Outlook

(scheduling, emails), Olympus DSS Player Pro (digital dictation), Microsoft

Office (word and word perfect), Excel Spreadsheet, Summation, Time Slips,

Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Internet Explorer, Lexis Nexis (for research and

person/asset locator)

WORK HISTORY

Derrevere Hawkes Black & Cozad August 22, 2005

to August 16, 2013

West Palm Beach, Florida

Lead Paralegal for Owner/Managing Partner, Jon D. Derrevere, Associate,

Peri Rose Huston-Miller and Senior Appellate Attorney, Shirley Jean

McEachern

Responsibilities: To prepare new matters from inception to finalization and

closing. Establish personal rapport with the clients (i.e. client

representative, carrier representative) in order to provide support and

efficiency in case handling; rapport with opposing counsel/staff in order

to obtain assistance, scheduling, agreement of extensions/Agreed Orders;

and rapport with Court staff for scheduling of hearings, copies of

documents, etc. Preparation of Correspondence, Status Updates, Motions,

Notices, proposed Orders, Hearing and Trial Notebooks, and Appellate

documents.

Intake of new matters, opening new matters, perform conflict check,

inputting contact information, preparation of retention correspondence with

accompanying documentation (i.e. fee agreement, statement of clients

rights, etc.), scheduling events, calendaring events (i.e. depositions,

hearings, meetings, etc.), dairying response deadlines to pleadings,

discovery, hearings, mediation and trial, preparation of final format for

pleadings and correspondence, efiling and eservice of documents,

preparation of folders for upcoming events (i.e. hearings, meetings,

depositions, mediations, trial, etc.), preparation of trial discovery and

notebook, appellate documents and preparation of closing file documents.

Assist the other six (6) attorneys (Partners/Associates) and support staff

as needed due to an absence or heavy litigation schedule.

Train new employees on the operating systems and performance of their job

requirements.

Peterson Bernard Vandenberg Zei Geisler & Martin 1992

to August 19, 2005

West Palm Beach, Florida

Receptionist/Secretarial/Accounting/Paralegal for Owner/Managing Partner,

Eric Peterson, Associate, Eugene Brandt and Trial Associate, Heather Bush.

Responsibilities: Started my career in the legal field as a receptionist,

performing secretarial work at the front desk (filing), moved to the back

office as a "back-up" secretary and assisted with the accounting department

for billing, proceeded to climb the corporate ladder to work as a

secretary/paralegal for the Owner/Partner, Eric Peterson. In addition,

acquired a "lead paralegal" position for an Associate Trial Attorney,

Heather Bush. Utilized as a "floater" for new attorneys without secretarial

assistance and would train the new employees on the operating systems and

performance of their job duties.

INTERESTS

I am interested in pursuit of a smaller based firm wherein I am responsible

for the handling/scheduling for a couple of attorneys which are

searching for a paralegal with the technical knowledge and personalized

"hands-on skills" to perform the tasks of case management with minimal

overview.

REFERENCES

Jon D. Derrevere, Esq./Managing Partner, Derrevere Hawkes Black & Cozad -

561/684-3222

Bryan W. Black, Esq./Partner - 561/684-3222

Peri Rose Huston-Miller, Esq./Associate - 561/684-3222

Heather Bush, Esq., General Counsel, Bureau Veritas I&F North America, 1601

Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, Suite 400, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33323,

telephone: 954/233-0257

Adisada Dudic, Esq., Global Knowledge Manager, Fragomen Global, LLP, 1101

5th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005, telephone: 202/380-1049

David Lietz, Esq., The Lietz Law Firm, 888 16th Street NW, Suite 800,

Washington, DC 20006, telephone: 202/349-9869, (assisted in a United Stated

District Court-Middle District, Orlando, Florida, Federal matter)

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