Paula Scarpellino Cree

ad1bnj@r.postjobfree.com

309-***-****

Aurora, IL

ABA Paralegal with 20 plus years of experience looking for a remote paralegal position. Experienced in litigation, corporate, probate and estate, real estate and family. Abilities include maintaining and issuing legal holds, preparing witnesses for interviews/testimony, complex legal documentation preparation, legal research, e-filing and case management.

EXPERIENCE

FisherBroyles, LLP February 2023-August 2023 Legal Assistant

Prepared and finalized legal documents

Organized legal documents digitally

Recorded, stored client information, filed pleadings electronically

Beacon Hill Legal, Chicago, IL August 2022

Paralegal

Created e-filings for multiple jurisdictions for both defendants and plaintiffs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois September 2017 - November 2020

Senior Litigation Paralegal

Managed defense of class action lawsuits.

Prepared medical record summaries.

Researched claim information.

Assisted with case management.

Participated in witness interviews.

Prepared complex documents, agreements and pleadings related to litigation and non-litigation matters.

Interfaced with outside counsel on litigation.

Responded to third party discovery request.

Prepared, issued and maintained legal holds.

Arnstein & Lehr, LLP, Chicago, Illinois May 2011 - September 2017

Litigation Paralegal (May 2015 – September 2017)

Managed civil litigation cases.

Prepared deposition summaries.

Conducted the Bates-stamping, redaction, duplication and indexing of documents.

Set up and maintained files which were organized chronologically, numerically and/or by subject matter.

Worked with Practice Support on electronic productions.

Under the guidance of an attorney, categorized documents by subject matter, prepared chronology of facts and created production charts.

Created and maintained internal case databases, ran searches on internal and external document databases and systems.

Extensive use of Concordance databases for processing productions for all litigation attorneys.

Worked with attorneys in the preparation and filing of all court documents including e-filing in federal and state courts.

Legal Assistant (May 2011 to May 2015)

Assisted two litigation attorneys and one banking and secured lending attorney.

General legal support and administrative duties for three attorneys including e-filing in federal and state courts.

Prepared annual reports and communications with counsel and clients.

Transcribed dictation, routed mail, and handled inbound and outbound telephone calls.

Managed Billing and maintained files and manuals.

Other paralegal duties as required such as document production, preparation of corporate documents, motions, e-filing, etc.

Pratt and Pratt, P.C., Bloomington, Illinois June 2008 – May 2011

Paralegal/Legal Assistant

Prepared all documents for real estate transactions.

Preparation of court documents.

Preparation of probate documents, and estate tax returns.

Communicated with real estate agents, contractors, attorneys, title companies, banks.

Assisted attorneys with research, preparation of corporate documents, established corporations and LLCs, prepared annual reports, minutes, and other corporate documents.

Calendaring, billing, file maintenance and organization, transcription, billing and other paralegal and secretarial duties as required.

Hayes, Hammer, Miles & Cox, LLP, Bloomington, Illinois June 2001 – June 2008

Legal Assistant

Prepared all documents for real estate transactions, probate documents, estate tax returns ad court documents.

Communicated with real estate agents, contractors, attorneys, title companies, banks.

Assisted attorneys with research, preparation of corporate documents, established corporations and LLCs, prepared annual reports, minutes, and other corporate documents.

Preparation of probate documents, and estate tax returns.

Transcribed dictation, file maintenance and organization, calendaring, billing and other paralegal and secretarial duties as required.

EDUCATION

Illinois State University 1987

Bachelor of Science – Criminal Justice/Psychology

Illinois State University 1994

Graduate Program – Paralegal Studies

TECHNOLOGY

Premise 3.14, Lotus 123, TABS, Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams, Lotus Approach, Timeslips, Concordance, Time Value, Atlas, TextMap, Rainmaker, Recommind, WordPerfect, Aderant, Legal Tracker, Google Workspace, Slack, Legal Database, Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw.

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