CHELSEA WALKER-GASKINS

**** ******** **** **********, ** 25302 304-***-**** acxj11@r.postjobfree.com A licensed attorney admitted to the West Virginia State bar (#11642), West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, United States District Court Southern District of West Virginia; admitted to practice before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, EOIR #WW877425; areas of practice include: litigation of contractual disputes, domestic relations disputes, personal injury, family-based and employment immigration; appellate work involving domestic relations; service as a Guardian ad Litem on behalf of children, and limited court-appointed counsel for abuse and neglect. LEGAL EXPERIENCE

GASKINS LAW GROUP, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia Owner and Managing Partner, June, 2013 – Present

• A private civil litigation firm focusing on results and excellence for all clients; quarter-of-a- million-dollar firm, private pay clients with few court-appointments.

• I had the pleasure of doing everything in this law firm: business development, innovating marketing, client relations, budgeted day-to-day operations, payroll, took care of HR components for staff and hires, payroll, decision-making to delegate tasks for efficiency, conscientious and research-based informed decisions about firm budget and tax incentives, maintained all state licensing and insurance requirements, sought daily to maximize ROI.

• Developing legal strategy, ran client conflicts, created trial preparation materials, legal research, appellate work including legal memorandum and briefs, drafted pleadings, motions, discovery requests, drafted subpoenas, updated clients on cases, managed case load and calendared deadlines for statute of limitations and other critical dates, prepared witness, reviewed medical records, reviewed engineering reports, proffered arguments in court, took testimony and cross examined adverse parties and witnesses.

• Created and maintained a comprehensive organization structure for client files, created a cloud- based firm for easy, yet secure, electronic access to all client files from any location, maintain all CLE requirements, systems in place to ensure highest level of attention was paid to ethical obligations to all clients, maintained and monitored IOLTA account.

• Over 180 cases handled in the course of three years, no disciplinary record.

• Win at West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Robert M. v. Jessica M., 13-0879 (2014).

• Wins at the Circuit Court appellate level.

EDUCATION

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COOLEY LAW SCHOOL, Lansing, MI Juris Doctor, September 2011

• Environmental Law Association

• Moot Court and Client-Counseling Team

• Book award recipient, Elder Law

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Miami, FL

Bachelor of Arts International Relations, May, 2006

• Certificate Environmental Studies

• Phi Mu Fraternity, New Member President

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ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Knack for learning new areas of the law almost entirely independently, implementing effective legal strategy

• People-oriented and excellent soft skills

• Enthusiastic about practice of law

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIL INVOLVEMENT

• Candidate for House of Delegates, 36th District, 2016

• Children’s Therapy Clinic, Board Member, 2015-present

• Many Faces of Moebius Syndrome, Host for the very first West Virginia family meet-up

• Moebius Syndrome Foundation, Conference 2016

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