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Victorianne Maxwell

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City: Charlotte

State: NC

Zip: 28262

Country: USA

Phone: 704-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

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Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

JD, NCCU School of Law

BA, State University of New York At Albany

Job History / Details:

VICTORIANNE C. MAXWELL, Attorney at Law

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COMPETENCIES

Working knowledge of a wide variety of federal and state laws, regulations and policies in several specialized legal areas (Bankruptcy, Consumer, Tax, Contract Law); ability to interpret and apply such laws and advise clients appropriately.

PROFILE

Bi-Lingual French and English.

Experience providing contract administration, negotiation services, and regulatory compliance advisement.

Five (5) years of progressively responsible legal experience as an Attorney with a targeted emphasis consumer law.

Significant experience working in a complex and fast-paced professional environment, providing legal services.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills as well as the ability to take initiative and manage numerous assignments with changing priorities and deadlines.

Maintain ethical and honest behavior to ensure high standards of conduct in order to avoid conflicts, alleged violations of ethical standards, or of law or corporate policy.

EXPERIENCE

General Counsel, Maxwell Law Firm, PLLC Charlotte, NC 10/2007 - Present

Major Accomplishments

Management: Strong business acumen and general understanding of business principles. Project Management: Perform supervisory responsibilities such as training of staff on firm policies and procedures, create employee manuals, hire staff, create staff schedules, and manage payroll and budgets. Perform manual audits and compliance review on client files.

Technical Skills: Proficiencies include: Research: Lexis Nexis and Westlaw, Database management of client files and other confidential data, Excel: spreadsheet creation, Word: word processing, Power Point: presentations, Internet: email and social media communication, Adobe: document processing and handling, dreamweaver and wordpress: basic html programming, content management and website updates, Operating Systems: Windows 7 & 8 and Mac OS Lion.

Public Relations: Review and approve advertising materials and budgets. Conduct market research to assess competition and market conditions. Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors. Advertise, solicit, and locate sources to establish and maintain public relations for the firm. Author and contribute to articles & press releases published in various online markets.

Transactional Experience

Manage client engagement services and solution implementations; perform review and analysis of potential conflicts of interest; identify and analyze legal issues, drafts key documents, and presents clear recommendations on complex issues.

Providing legal advice to businesses on issues and problems; drafting, negotiating, and consummating contracts including internal corporate governance, sales and vendor contracts, licensing agreements, employment contracts, leases; and monitoring contractual compliance.

Establish corporate governance and organization; provide assistance with the procurement of permits and business licenses.

File and Prepare Consumer Bankruptcy Claims.

Assist with Tax Audits and Collection Defense. Prepare federal and state taxation documents and correspondence; advise clients on matters arising out of complex tax compliance and collection issues.

Serve as a third party closing agent-advising borrowers of FHA, ECOA, and TILA guidelines.

Litigation Experience

Provide legal consulting, knowledge expertise in strategic performance to other Attorneys and Firms.

Execute the strategy for, and administer ethics and compliance procedures.

Research case law and prepare, file, and serve pleadings, subpoenas, discovery, and other litigation documents; request and produce discovery; initiate and defend depositions.

Argue oral and written motions in State and Federal court.

Prepare, file, and serve Consumer Bankruptcy petitions, motions, and objections in Federal Court.

Draft legal documents including pleadings, motions, objections, interrogatories, jury instructions, affidavits, subpoenas, briefs, and memoranda of law.

Coordinate, direct, and defend client s interests during arbitration and mediation hearings.

Provide debt defense and consumer protection litigation defense in State and Federal court.

Contract Attorney, Willkie, Farr, & Gallagher, LLP New York, NY 5/2008 8/2008

Identified documents that were relevant to the particular case and further designated each document as responsive, privileged or confidential.

Substantive complex litigation experience working on electronic document review projects; ability to use PC-based and on-line technology; familiarity with electronic document review and retrieval applications.

Translated and interpreted French legal documents and contracts.

Contract Attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York, NY 11/2007 4/2008

Responsible for document discovery, e-discovery, document collection and review, and case file management.

Provided support to litigation team in order to develop the review strategy for the case.

Examined, analyzed, and interpreting available information and submitted recommendations in matters before chief Counsel.

Translated and interpreted legal documents for relevancy and contractual significance. Proofreading and editing legal documents. Attention to detail and strong awareness of legal and business terminology.

Law Clerk, Center for Responsible Lending Durham, NC 1/2007 5/2007

Major Accomplishments: Researched and drafted a memorandum on consumer predatory lending practices based a state by state case analysis that was in included on the organization s informational marketing materials.

Documented and analyzed internal processes of State and Federal agencies.

Tracked legislation, analyzed, and summarized bills on predatory lending practices and consumer law.

Attended and participated conference calls and meetings.

Legal Intern, NCDOJ, Consumer Protection Division Durham, NC 8/2006 12/2006

Major Accomplishments: Assessed consumer complaints and made recommendations.

Reviewed and documented consumer retail contracts for usury terms and conditions.

Monitored pending cases with internal and external legal counsel.

Researching legal issues and draft memoranda.

Performed client intake and interviews, initiate investigations, and assist with case development.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Active member of North Carolina State Bar in good standing 2007

New York State Bar (Pending Admission)

US District Court - 2008

EDUCATION

JURIS DOCTOR (JD), LAW

North Carolina Central School of Law, Durham, NC - 2007

Key Coursework/Class Projects: contract administration & rules, Contract Law, Business Associations, Contract Negotiation, Sales and Secured Transactions, Debtor Creditor Law, Income Tax, Advanced Taxation.

BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA), WITH HONORS

State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY - 2003

Major: History / Minor: Business Administration

Key Coursework/Class Projects: Business Law, Business Management, Accounting, & Statistics.

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