PAMELA A. NEWMAN

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Duluth, GA 30096

Day/Night Contact # 404-***-****

Personal Email: acd96x@r.postjobfree.com Business: acd96x@r.postjobfree.com

Seeking Legal Support Position; Licensed Attorney at Law State of New York

since 1992

Attorney in Good Standing, Current Bar Dues Paid.

Seeking Position $49,000-55,000 starting salary

Professional Experience

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-

UI Appeals Division (12/2008 - present)

Current Position: Assistant Chief of Appeals (April, 2013-present)

Current Supervisor: Chief Alice Mitchell-contact # furnished upon request

"Acting/Interim" Assistant Chief job duties (April, 2012 - April, 2013)

Senior Regional Admin Hearing Officer (10/2011- April, 2013)

Administrative Hearing Officer I & II (12/2008-09/2011)

Direct report to Chief of Appeals; assists Chief on daily basis with

everyday business of Appeals Unit; under broad supervision

supervises/manages support staff of 40 workers, and 47 hearing officers.

Assists Chief in daily duties of entire unit, the making of policy and

procedure for unit, obligated to insure that entire unit conforms to

Federal policy and procedure for conducting of unemployment appeal

hearings, insures conformity with Federal 382 ET Handbook.

Sole trainer over all new hire Administrative Hearing Officers; insure all

hearing officers receive proper training to successfully conduct appeal

hearings; issue and train in usage of equipment; insure compliance with

policy and procedure of the Department as well as Federal 382 ET Handbook

policy and procedure for conducting of hearings.

System Administrator over Electronic Appeals Process (EAP); primary liaison

with other Units within the Agency regarding the implementation and

processes of the EAP system. The EAP process was created by the UI Appeals

Tribunal Senior Regional Administrator along with me as his assistant. The

EAP system was "rolled out" as the Unit's standard process for conducting

of Appeal hearings as of July, 2013.

Review case law and remain updated on current law, policies and procedures.

Perform random case reviews of hearing officer's; assists with maintaining

Appeals load-ins for legal and technical accuracy; assists with keeping

hearing officer's resource manual updated and accurate; represent the

Appeals Tribunal within the Agency and in public; and communicate with

other units within the Agency and with the public on behalf of Appeals and

Department.

Represented the Tribunal and State of Georgia in March, 2013 at the USDOL

Annual UI Appeals Quality Review in Washington, D.C.

Manager in charge of Overpayment cases, Educational Worker cases and Labor

Dispute cases appealed to the UI Appeals Tribunal. As manager in charge, I

insure conformity with policy and current stance of Department as a whole

as well as in conformity with current Georgia statutory law and

Departmental Rules.

Prior to becoming Assistant Chief of Appeals I conducted 7 hearings per day

and managed 10-13 hearings officers under an assigned region as a Senior

Regional Administrative Hearing Officer; prior to becoming a Senior

Regional Hearing Officer, I conducted 7 hearings per day as a Hearing

Officer I and II.

Member of IAWP since August, 2011.

Member of NAUIAP since September, 2012.

1st Place recipient April, 2012 as Writer for Supervisor of the Year IAWP

award.

2nd Place recipient April, 2012 as Writer for Willie Rountree Professional

IAWP award.

Designer Furniture Source- Duluth, Georgia

Operations Manager (09/2000 - 11/2008)

Operations Manager for a privately owned furniture store; assisted with all

administrative duties inclusive of banking and bookkeeping, clerical,

general office duties; overseeing warehouse and scheduling deliveries;

placing orders with manufacturers, heavy telephone contact with

manufacturers, consumers and tremendous contact and handling of customer

relations.

Surplus Solutions Inc.-Marietta, Georgia

Paralegal (09/1998 to 08/2000)

Escrow and Contract Administrator job duties. Manage all administrative

duties of the department, closely assisted clients in sale and purchase of

commercial sites and monitoring of sites shut down.

Cassin Cassin & Joseph LLP-New York, New York

Senior Administrative Litigation Attorney (10/1995 - 08/1998)

In charge of real estate litigation staff, calendar, trial preparation,

motion practice, argue motions in Federal Bankruptcy Court and State Court,

prepare weekly and monthly case reports, general oversight of litigation

department, accountable to Senior partners on daily basis. Primarily

handled residential and commercial foreclosures inclusive of

landlord/tenant matters. Assisted when needed to be closing attorney for

commercial and residential closings.

2004-2010 Private Investigator, Licensed Investigator/Owner of PN

Investigative and Information Services, Duluth, GA

1991- 1995 Senior Attorney, Law Office of Charles G. Stiene, P.C., Mineola,

NY- practice consisted of real estate litigation, foreclosures and

commercial and residential real estate closings.

1987-1991 Senior Paralegal/Attorney pending admission to Bar, Favata &

Wallace, Mineola, NY-practice consisted of general litigation, real estate

litigation, foreclosures, residential and commercial real estate closings.

1985-1987 Paralegal, O'Reilly & Marsh, Mineola, NY-practice consisted of

estates, probate, general litigation, foreclosures, residential and

commercial litigation.

Education/Certifications

Nat'l Institute of Decontamination Specialists, Piedmont So. Carolina

August, 2007

Clayton College & State University, Roswell GA, Private Investigator

Certificate, August, 2003

Touro Law School, Huntington NY, J.D., May, 1991 Admitted NYS Bar 1992, in

good standing

Long Island University, Long Island NY Paralegal Certificate with Honors,

December, 1985

St. John's University, Queens NY Bachelors Degree in Gov't & Politics, May,

1985

Interests/Hobbies

Sports: Tennis, Golf

Legal Websites and Legal Treatises/Books

Mystery Crime Novels

Criminal and Civil Investigations

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