Connor Zivojnovich
Brier, WA
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Certificated paralegal with experience writing and drafting complex documents. Ability to organize workload efficiently for rapid completion. Excellent research and organizational skills. Experienced with being a team player in a working environment, and committed to upholding ethical standards. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Communication Skills: Experience with providing customer service, maintaining direct contact with fellow employees, managers, and clients. Able to provide clients with required assistance calmly and effectively. Possessing language skills in German (Proficient at reading and writing. Less proficient at speaking) and Spanish – (Limited skills)
Technology Skills: Proficient in using computers, sending emails on Outlook, drafting documents on Word, organizing data on Excel, and utilizing PowerPoint and TimeMap.
Civil Litigation: Developed necessary skills in drafting complex legal documents such as pleadings, motions, jury instructions, and interrogatories.
Legal Research and Writing: Proficient in writing opinion letters, and legal memoranda. Experienced in utilizing library resources, primary and secondary resources, and received Training Certificate for WestlawNext.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Paralegal Internship, April 2017-present
Budigan Law Firm
Seattle. Duties include answering phones and placing calls to clients for supervisor, drafting legal documents and correspondence to clients, conducting legal research on behalf of supervisor, copying and scanning documents, and organizing case files in the office. Dishwasher, July 2014-September 2014
Red Lobster
Lynwood Location. Duties included maintaining cooks’ tools and organizing layout of kitchen for greater efficiency.
Clerk, July 2013-September 2013
QFC
Mountlake Terrace Location. Seafood Department. Duties included customer service, fish prep and organization and displaying of products.
Volunteer, 2012-2013
Brier Public Works
City of Brier. Volunteer. Duties included maintaining landscape and manual labor. Volunteer, 2012-2015
Lynnwood Food Bank
City of Lynnwood. Volunteer. Duties included assisting people with disabilities with loading food into their cars and assisting in any other way needed. EDUCATION:
Advanced Paralegal Certificate, 2017
Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA
Completed 41 credits with 3.86 GPA
Bachelor of Arts, History, 2016
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Completed 115 credits with 3.21 GPA
Associate in Arts, 2013
Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
Completed 105 credits with 2.72 GPA
OUTSIDE INTERESTS:
Reading, Political Research and Fitness
PERSONAL REFERENCES: Available upon request