Leasing Abstractor

Charlotte D. Banks

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Park Forest, Illinois 60466

708-***-**** email: *************@*****.***

EDUCATION

Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, Juris Doctor

Alcorn State University, Lorman Mississippi, B.A. in Political Science Cum Laude

WORK HISTORY

Experis/Manpower Group - Chicago, IL 08/2017 – 09/2017

Remote Leasing Abstractor

Abstracted commercial contracts/leases, master agreements, amendments, and exhibits for small cell, right of way installations for a telecommunications/wireless client using Apex software.

CHC Consulting, Orange, CA 04/10/17 – 08/08/17

Remote – Chicago Permit Specialist

Researched municipal ordinances and contacted municipal officials for submission of right of way permit applications to jurisdictions; verified and confirmed permitting approval processes and submittal requirements for fiber optic upgrade in public right of ways including follow-up for franchise agreements throughout Chicagoland area and Northwest Indiana markets via email, telephone contact and in-person meetings with permitting and public works officials; determined paths of fiber lines using Google Earth and KMZ files.

SAC Wireless, Chicago, IL 05/2014 – 03/30/2017

Zoning and Permitting Specialist

Researched and contacted jurisdictions to verify and confirm zoning and building permit approval processes and submittal requirements to assist with forecasting for financial, construction budgets, and timeframes from site acquisition to construction; prepared zoning and permitting applications manually and online including City of Chicago filings for AT&T and Sprint; worked with Regulatory Team to secure compliance for NEPA, FAA, and RF filings; audited and abstracted commercial contracts/leases, master agreements and amendments of tower companies, such as Crown Castle, SBA, and American Tower Company for client; secured building permit within twenty-four (24) hours of reaching out to jurisdiction to help on another team’s project; saved a major carrier over $2,000 in overcharges by catching a loophole in the jurisdiction’s city ordinance relating to permitting fees; worked on a special commercial lease abstraction project that reviewed 30,000 franchise leases in four weeks to help carrier cut costs by determining which leases to renew using Nexus CBRE Site Tool software; drove down total cost through time and quality research that consistently prevented any revisions tied to cost; consistently prepared with updated research and notes to provide excellent customer service to the company and accountability to the client; solved problems through open and honest communication with team and other departments, and provided quality and efficiency in work product.

Specialist, Site Development (AZP)

Worked in the capacity of a contract specialist in commercial real estate managing the acquisition, zoning, and permitting of cell tower sites from start to finish by performing contract/ lease review, lease audits, drafting amendments, consent letters, and notices to both commercial and private landlords; negotiating lease terms; performed lease review/audit/abstraction for special projects.

Robert Half Legal, Inc., Chicago, IL Document review contractor 11/2013 – 4/2014

Reviewed documents for e-discovery and privilege using Relativity for suits involving age discrimination and pharmaceutical price-fixing litigation; captured, coded, and entered financial transaction data from hundreds of investment statements for a large international consulting firm assigned as the trustee in a SEC investigation for securities fraud.

Hudson Legal – Chicago, IL Document review contractor 12/17/2013 – 12/20/2013

Manually reviewed scientific journals, clinical research, and other documentation for product liability litigation resulting in birth defects for mothers using epilepsy drug; in September 2013 manually completed a two-week document review in two days in response to a pending EPA request for information (RFI) for an agricultural corporation involved in an environmental law case involving landfills and toxic dumps.

Special Counsel, Inc., Chicago, IL Legal Consultant 5/2011 – 7/2012

Provided legal, clerical, editorial, and administrative services for law firms and companies between 3/2000 and 5/2005; extensive experience in large scale document review and privilege reviews for complex litigation and civil litigation both manually and using e-discovery methods for: Chapter 11 bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions, product liability cases, and divestiture; Experience coding, case briefing, content proofing/editing and litigation support using Excel, Microsoft, WordPerfect, Summation and Concordance; Content editor for a legal topic taxonomy project researching case law with Lexis, editing extracts, selecting and ranking seminal cases into editing search tool software in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, government, immigration, labor and employment, real property and tax.

Hire Counsel, Inc., Chicago, IL Document review contractor 8/2010 – 11/2010

Assisted with e-discovery, reviewed and coded for case content and privilege hundreds of documents in Relativity software for federal patent prosecution case; completed assignment ahead of schedule and saved the client thousands of dollars in court costs.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago, IL Conflicts Junior Analyst 4/2005- 11/2009

Performed conflicts searches of new clients and matters in the law firm’s database by running Boolean searches via Legal Key software, as well as, expedited research of new clients under tight deadlines; acquired diverse computer skills using Microsoft Office and CMS accounting software; researched parent companies and corporate affiliates via the Internet, Dun & Bradstreet, Hoovers, and Yahoo! Finance; searched the prior legal affiliations of new and lateral hires and ran Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) searches as mandated by the U.S. Department of Treasury regulations; created and presented Power Point training presentation on OFAC for conflicts staff and firm attorneys; assisted in training new hires as department needs evolved, tested new database and accounting software, and research tools as needed; provided excellent customer service to attorneys and firm staff.

Pinnacle Research, Matteson, IL investigator trainee 7/2002 – 8/2002

Briefly trained as private investigator and investigated cases performing background and due diligence searches, public record searches, and Internet searches; interviewed subjects and contacts; wrote client reports; as a metro law clerk filed state, federal, and county complaints and documents.

Illinois House of Representatives, Springfield, IL 1/2002 – 5/2002

Technical Review Advisor 1/2001 – 6/2001

Conducted legal research and statutory analysis for the Speaker of the House’s Technical Review (legal) staff for the 92nd General Assembly in the capacity of assistant counsel; Acted as parliamentarian for the Children and Youth, Constitutional Officers, Computer Technology, and Child Support Enforcement House committees; assisted in drafting and review of legislation, analyzed hundreds of House and Senate bills, maintained case files of house bills and condensed into easy-to-read reports for House members; contacted and negotiated with legislators, lobbyists, and state agencies on a variety of legislation; advised representatives engaged in active floor debate of bills, traveled, and explained impact of legislation at community forums to the public.

HONORS

*CALI Award for Best Brief in Appellate Litigation

*State of Texas Certification in Mediation

*1st Place in Board of Advocates Negotiation Competition

*Dean’s List at Loyola and Alcorn State University

SPECIAL INTERESTS

*Houston Bar Association Mock Trial Program instructor for middle school students in Houston Independent School District

*Red Cross volunteer for Holocaust Survivor Tracking Project in Chicago, IL

*Amnesty International, Volunteer for Haitian Refugee Center in Miami, Florida

Asylum law team-project; interviewed refugees seeking political asylum speaking French and Creole Haitian with aide of Haitian interpreter at the Department of Justice, Krome Detention Center

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