Nicole Marie Clements

**** ***** ******* ***

Buford, GA 30519

Phone: 404-***-****

Email: acgaau@r.postjobfree.com

Education

January, 1999-May, 2003

B.S. in International Business Management, Concentration in Western

Europe/German

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

September, 2003- December, 2003

Paralegal Certification

Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody Campus

University of Georgia Educational System

Awards, Fellowships, Grants

University of Tampa Dean's Academic Scholarship Award

Air Force Aid Society Academic Scholarship

Who's Who Award for U.S. High School Students

National French Exam Finalist

Rivers' Student Exchange Program Scholarship

SMILE Programme Student Exchange Program, Lueneberg, Niedersachsen, Germany

Outback Employee of the Month, Outback, Goldsboro, North Carolina

Employee Bravo Award from Nancy J. Whaley, Chapter 13 Trustee's Office

Employment

First Capital

October, 2012- Current

In-house Commercial Litigation/Commercial Default Paralegal

Prepare pleadings and file with Federal and local Courts as needed, work

under four in-house counsel litigation and transactional attorneys, perform

UCC searches, maintain litigation trial calendar for senior litigation

attorney, coordinate and prepare for depositions, order trial transcripts

as requested, prepare trial notebooks/pleadings binders, prepare, file

Proofs of Claim, prepare & manage discovery requests received,

generate/circulate document hold requests, create/maintain electronic files

for all closed/active litigation/bankruptcy matters, perform background

searches, perform asset locator searches, perform USPTO searches, review

patent/trademark ownership/assignment details, perform legal research,

summarize recent case law, draft forbearance agreements/demand letters,

reconcile monthly expenses and submit reimbursement requests, draft legal

memos summarizing litigation filed, provide in-house counsel with loan

transaction history & analysis, as well as perform ongoing

litigation/bankruptcy case filing searches for distressed loans.

Cohen Pollock Merlin & Small, P.C.

March 2012- October, 2012

Commercial Litigation/Commercial Bankruptcy Paralegal

Prepared pleadings, filed with Federal and local Courts, worked under eight

attorneys, maintained calendars for attorneys, coordinated and prepared for

depositions/trials/court calendars, ordered trial transcripts as requested,

prepared trial notebooks/pleadings binders, maintained constant

communication with clients, Trustees, courts, opposing counsel; Bates

stamped documents, drafted all commercial and individual bankruptcy case

petitions for Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 clients with BestCase software,

updated BestCase software as needed for firm, prepare and file Proofs of

Claim for creditor matters, prepare and file adversary litigation

proceedings, prepared and filed garnishment actions, prepared and file

Notices of Appeal, tracked and entered billable hours for time worked in

Orion software for all billed time, reviewed/prepared documents received

for attorneys for discovery requests to/from opposing counsel, circulate

proposed pleadings to opposing counsel.

Hicks, Casey, & Foster, PC

October, 2004- March, 2012

Senior Financial Planning/Litigation/Bankruptcy Paralegal

Prepare all pleadings and file with the federal courts and local courts,

maintain a calendar for a senior partner attorney, constant direct

interaction with clients, create and form business incorporations and

minute books, audit all open files, archive closed files, and provide

feedback to partner attorney regarding active cases, and handle corporate

matters for commercial clients, generate and manage client billing and

accounts for all active cases, and supervise other staff.

Sicay-Perrow, Knighten, & Bohan, PC

April, 2004- October, 2004

Adversary/General Bankruptcy Paralegal

Attended 341 hearings for both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases; prepared 341

hearing worksheets summarizing hearing results for creditor clients,

prepared and filed proofs of claim, motions, orders and adversaries for

bankruptcy cases on behalf of creditor clients, generated a large volume of

motions and orders using HotDocs, constant contact with the Federal Courts

(for AL, MS, and GA districts), filed documents daily via ECF; prepared

adversarial cases, drafted and circulated reaffirmation agreements, consent

orders/consent judgments for debtors' attorneys and Trustees before

forwarding on to the Court for filing, maintained constant contact with

creditor clients regarding case status and current collateral

location/condition

Nancy J. Whaley, Chapter 13 Trustee's Office

March, 2003- March, 2004

Inquiry Specialist/Front Desk

Constant direct interaction with debtors', creditors', bankruptcy

attorneys, court personnel, other Trustees' offices regarding bankruptcy

cases/filings, received, processed and recorded payments made in office

from bankruptcy debtors, verified legal notices, maintained an audit ledger

and MTD ledger, operated a telephone switchboard for an office that managed

between 20-30K active cases on a regular basis, scanned/indexed payments

received, maintained the general flow of traffic through the office, opened

and closed the office each day.

Skills

. Perform legal research, as well as effectively handle multiple

responsibilities of case management and trial preparation for

litigation nationwide as needed

. Must be hard-working and highly motivated

. Able to assist and support all aspects of a heavy volume litigation

practice, in a fast-paced team environment

. Experience in drafting, analyzing legal documents and working with

discovery documents

. Must be very detail oriented

. Strong organizational and communication skills are needed

. Strong familiarity with filing procedures for Federal Courts

(PACER/ECF filing)

. Experience drafting commercial contract agreements (including asset

purchase/sale agreements),

. Due diligence search request experience-including conducting lien

searches and preparing corresponding lien search charts for attorney

review, asset locator searches, obtaining Accurint background search

reports, conducting USPTO trademark/patent searches

. light bookkeeping, auditing, accounting skills such as performing bank

reconciliations, preparing cash flow statements, preparing bank

deposits, using a tabulator, preparing financial analysis reports,

preparing financial statements for clients as needd

. Reconcile expenses and process reimbursement requests for accounting

department

. review and process legal invoices for payment

Software used: Microsoft Office Professional (including Word, Excel,

PowerPoint & Access), Corel Word Perfect, Adobe Professional (Adobe

LegalPro), Outlook, TimeMatters, LexisNexis HotDocs, BestCase, DocLink,

TrusteeSolutions, I-Manage/DeskSite, Filesite, DropBox, Orion time entry,

Plan Calc, LaserFiche, FactorSoft, Citrix Applications, Summation,

Concordance, Cisco VPN access

Volunteer Experience

Bon Secours-St. Francis Xavier Hospital Volunteer

Medical University of South Carolina Hospital Volunteer

College of Charleston Early Childhood Development Center Volunteer

Southern Regional Medical Center Hospital Volunteer

Coweta County CASA Volunteer

Greater Atlanta Christian School

Certifications

Paralegal Certification from Georgia Perimeter College, 2003

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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