Real Estate Insurance
Resume:
GAVAL L SIMMONS
Hillside, New Jersey 07205
Email: ********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Budd Larner P.C, Short Hills, New Jersey Sept. 2010 – November 2015 Paralegal
Prepare documentation for trials including subpoenas, complaints, deposition summaries, document production, interrogatories, index documentation, cite checking, Shepardizing utilizing Westlaw and Lexis- Nexis, prepared a document index database, drafting summons.
Review Bank Closing Document for Commercial Real Estate closing. (Examining title reports, abstracts, or preliminary title insurance).
Reviewed and prepared leases, due diligence, Leasing abstract, subleases and Sub-Subleases, renewals and amendments etc.
Prepare Commission Agreement, Commencement Agreements and Assignment of Leases and Good Guy Guaranty
Lease Amendments and Extension, Consents and replacement Guaranty.
Prepare Loan Documents (Guarantee, Environmental Indemnity, ISDA, Notes and Mortgages etc.).
File Tax Appeal Complaints and Petitions.
Calendar court and board date hearings and trials
Prepare Stipulation of Settlements and payment charts
Prepare Abatement and Land Use Applications
Prepare Deeds for closing property, POA, Hold Harmless Agreements and Indemnifications, ISDA and Sheriff’s Deed.
Close out files with all Post Closing duties including cutting checks and wiring of funds to client.
Prepare contracts for purchase and sale of land.
Form Corporations, updated Franchise Tax, file SEC and Merger Documents
Conduct Day to Day contact with Brokers and Buyers Attorney.
Assist Partners with closing and attended all closing.
Prepare and plotted legal descriptions of land. Examined title reports, abstracts, or preliminary title insurance.
Created and mailed NOI/NOE correspondences.
Review Letter of Credit – amendments, expirations and renewals
Prepare Standby letter of Credits and draw downs
Requested appraisal service.
Prepare all legal documents including subpoenas, research and interrogatories for attorney court appearances. Greenbaum Rowe, Smith & Davis, Woodbridge, New Jersey September 2005 – September 2010 Paralegal
Reviewed Bank Closing Document for Real Estate closing. (Examining title reports, abstracts, or preliminary title insurance).
Prepared Loan Documents (Guarantee, Environmental Indemnity, ISDA, Notes and Mortgages etc.).
Reviewed Bank Approval Term Sheet, Commitment Letters.
Maintained Post Closing of recorded documentation.
Coordinate closing process, assisting with closings (Construction, Modifications, Line Of Credit Loans).
Reviewed and prepared leases, due diligence, Leasing abstract etc.
Lease Amendments and Extension, Consents and replacement Guaranty.
Attended Arbitrations, preparing exhibits for Depositions and Trials
Prepped for Litigation Trials and all Court documents
Form Corporations, updated Franchise Tax, file SEC and Merger Documents
Download and retrieve documents on/from Summations
Monitor, reviewed and coordinated all landlord tenant matters.
Working for five attorneys.
LiRo Construction, Newark, New Jersey March 2004 – July 2005 Paralegal Real Estate
Prepared statements for Real Estate closing. (ie. Respa, closing forms and tax calculations).
Examined title reports, abstracts, or preliminary title insurance.
Created and mailed NOI/NOE correspondences.
Requested appraisal service.
Constant negotiation with Seller with an offer package.
Created offer packages (offer letter, pacer report, environmental clause letter, spill compensation and control act letter, appraisal and relocation brochure).
Coordinated closing process (Requests outside counsel, deliver offer package contents, title reports, appraisal and environmental reports to outside counsel, remain in contact with seller and outside counsel re. closing date and facilitate any outstanding issues, review closing documents prior to closing, i.e. HUD 1 statement).
Maintained Land Acquisition database and legal files.
Prepared and Reviewed Contracts.
Assisted with relocation matter, when necessary.
Assisted with contractual matters (Distribution & Execution of purchase agreements, right of entry, etc.). Stern Lavinthal Frankenberg & Norgaard, Somerset, New Jersey November 2002 – February 2004 Paralegal Real Estate
Prepared statements for Real Estate closing and REO procedures (ie. Respa, closing forms and tax calculations).
Examined title reports, abstracts, or preliminary title insurance (Commercial, Co-Ops Condos & Residential/Foreclosure properties).
Prepared Deeds for closing property, POA, Hold Harmless Agreements and Indemnifications, ISDA and Sheriff’s Deed.
Closed out files with all Post Closing duties including cutting checks and wiring of funds to client.
Prepared contracts for purchase and sale of land.
Conducted Day to Day contact with Brokers and Buyers Attorney.
Assisted Senior Attorney with closing and attended all closing.
Prepared documents prior to Sheriff Sale and Foreclosure and Bankruptcy
Prepared and plotted legal descriptions of land.
Accumulated data and information needed to complete various instruments of conveyance. Fleet National Bank/Mortgage, Cranford, New Jersey June 2000 – November 2002 Post Closer II
Accounted for fees coming back from Atty./Closing Agent and communicate to Accounting Dept.
Prepared delivery package by investor/servicer. Conducted audit files to ensure documentation meets regulatory requirements.
Maintained and monitored the delivery and funding issues. Follow-up with loan originators for required internal documentation and closing agent for closing documents through resolution of any omissions or errors.
Reviewed and updated system data from receipt through final documents through delivery to end investors.
Crosstrained on Post Closing/delivery counterpart to heighten responsiveness to team.
Assisted Senior Team Leader with Special Projects.
Assisted junior staff’s members with questions, resolution problems and solve problems encountered. Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding, New York, New York November 1994 - May 2000 Paralegal
Prepared documentation for trials including subpoenas, complaints, deposition summaries, document production, interrogatories, index documentation, cite checking, Shepardizing utilizing Westlaw and Lexis- Nexis, prepared a document index database, drafting summons’ and notices of dependency with exhibit packages.
Controlled and organized depositions, which may include the preparation of summaries, locating and indexing testimony for exhibits, preparation pf exhibit list, and so forth.
Prepared documents prior to Sheriff Sale, Foreclosure and Bankruptcy
Prepared Deeds for closing property, POA, Hold Harmless Agreements and Indemnifications, ISDA and Sheriff’s Deed.
Form Corporations, updated Franchise Tax, file SEC and Merger Documents
Prepared and/or answered interrogatories and prepared for witness depositions taken by the other side.
Copied large amounts of accumulated evidentiary materials.
Residential and Commercial Condominium closings, preparation of tax forms and other documents for closings, and closing statements (Commercial, Leasing, Condo & Residential).
Drafted complaints, answers, and other legal pleadings (breach of contract to purchase or sell land, action for specific performance of contract of sell land, landlord-tenant actions, and the like).
Maintained the file organization and prepared indexes and sub-indexes. EDUCATION
National Academy for Paralegal Studies September 1992 to June 1993 Middletown, New York
Paralegal Certificate
ORGANIZATIONS
National Honor Society
National Paralegal Association
Notary Public
SOFTWARE
Word Perfect, Word, Windows 97 & 98 & 2000, Power Point, CClas, Most, Excel, Lotus Notes, Lexis-Nexis, WestLaw, Access, ProComm Plus, Harvard Graphics, Microsoft Mail and Schedule, Citrix Program Neighborhood, Summation, Smart Post Closing, Shepardizing, and Blue Book.
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