Real Estate West Palm
Resume:
LESLIE A. MCDEAVITT
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
561-***-**** (cell)
E-mail: ad5xls@r.postjobfree.com
RESUME
CAREER HIGHLIGHT
To secure a position as a Housekeeping attendant with a reputable organization.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LAW OFFICE OF MARGARET A. BROZ
West Palm Beach, Florida
February, 2020-Present
April 1995-March 2006
Specialized in the areas of: Family Law, Contract Law, Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation, Probate and Estate Planning, Juvenile Dependency Litigation and Real Estate.
●Maintain client contact, open client file, initial client assessment and document retrieval, phone contact with client, and meetings with clients;
●Performed legal research through FastCase on Florida Bar Website, Westlaw and Lexus Nexus;
●Draft correspondences, pleadings, Notices of Hearings, Mediations, and proposed Orders;
●Schedule hearings, mediations, depositions, and keep track of all Orders Setting Trial with deadlines for pretrial provisions;
●Monitoring all client files to maintain proper handling;
●Prepare Offer of Judgment and Proposal for Settlement and response to same;
●Draft Interrogatories and Request to Produce and responses to same;
●Prepare all billing statements to the clients;
●Contact with Court to schedule and reschedule hearings;
●Mediation preparation, trial preparation and hearing preparation; and
●Perform E-Filing for State and Federal Cases.
LAW OFFICES OF GARY M. ZEIDWIG
Oakland Park, Florida
November, 2017-February 2020
Specialized in the areas of: Contract Law, Criminal Defense, Personal Injury Law (Pre-suit Claims and Litigation)Traffic Defense, Estate and Probate Law, Real Estate, Civil Litigation, and Elderly Law.
Preparation of Interrogatories and Request to Produce and responses to same;
●Maintain client contact, telephone conferences, and client meetings;
● Performed legal research through Westlaw and Lexis Nexis;
Monitoring of all civil litigation, personal injury files by opening claims, getting all initial documents such as Police Reports, Liability Limits from all insurance companies, sending clients to treat and getting medical records/bills and assisting clients with property damage;
●Providing all clients with legal support through trying times of their cases, including but not limited to listening to them, scheduling appointments, arranging for transportation, and updating them with their case status;
●Preparing Counter Offer letters, Waive Balance letters to doctors, closing statements, and disbursing monies to provider;
●Probate litigation, drafting Durable Power of Attorneys, Wills and Estate Trust documents, as well as Health Care Surrogates, criminal defense litigation, and contract litigation files.
HARBOR SANDS RESORT AND MARINA
January 2018-February 2020
Pompano Beach, Florida
Specialized in housekeeping, keeping the lobby spotless and greeting the guests as they came in, sanitizing the bathrooms, and also worked in the laundry.
ABC MARKETING SOLUTIONS LLC
October 2017-May 2017
Lake Worth, Florida
Specialized in the area of telephone sales of a top rated luxury magazine.
ELIZABETH R. WELLBORN, P.A.
October 2012-January 2013
Deerfield Beach, FL
Foreclosure Litigation Paralegal
Specialized in the area of Residential Home Mortgage Foreclosures.
●Drafted Civil Cover Sheets, Summonses, Complaints for Home Mortgage Foreclosures, Defaults, Answers to Counter-Claims, and Amended Complaints;
●Monitored files to determine status in order to update clients through LPS (Lender Processing Service, Servicing Connect, Lenstar and via Outlook e-mail). Our office used Time Matters to handle all client files. We maintained electronic and paper copies of each file, so that all attorneys/paralegals working the file can access updated and accurate information; and my department initiated all files from pre-suit work, filing the Complaint, checking with Provest (servicing company) to determine if Summonses were served, determine when the Answer was due, monitored file s.
VIAL FOTHERINGHAM
March 2012-September 2012
Senior Paralegal (Supervisor)
Salt Lake City, UT
●Specialized in the areas of: HOA Litigation, Debt Collections and Civil Litigation. Supervised several paralegals, delegated tasks, and monitored their work
●Calendared all incoming mail and forwarded to appropriate Paralegal;
●Drafted Interrogatories and Requests for Production and responses to same; preparation of Initial Disclosures;
●Scheduled hearings, depositions and mediations;
● Maintained all aspects of the litigation files;
●Performed legal research through Lexis and Westlaw;
● Responsible for tracking my billable and non-billable hours (7.5 hour daily billing requirement).
SNOW, CHRISTENSEN & MARTINEAU
May 2007-March 2012
Legal Assistant/Paralegal
Salt Lake City, UT
Specialized in the areas of: Insurance Defense, Civil Litigation, Federal Litigation, Personal Injury, Non-Profit Organization structuring, Corporate law, and Contract law.
●Drafting pleadings, drafting correspondence, opening and closing files, and monitoring of all civil litigation files;
●Preparation of Interrogatories and Request to Produce and responses to same;
● Scheduling of hearings, mediations, depositions, independent medical examinations, and examinations under oath;
●Maintain client contact through e-mail, telephone conferences, and client meetings;
●Performing legal research through Westlaw and Lexis;
●Filing of U.S. Federal Pleadings (Northern, Southern, and Middle Districts) via electronic filings;
filing of appellate pleadings via
electronic and non-electronic filings
●Preparation of daily billing entries through Elite Enterprise software.
EDUCATION
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN PARALEGAL STUDIES, COLLEGIATE DIVISION
SOUTH UNIVERSITY-WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA GRADUATION--JUNE 1994
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ACCOUNTING MAJOR
1991-1992 ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PALM BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRADUATION--JUNE 1991
COMPUTER SKILLS
●Wordperfect, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Power Point
● Dictaphone
●Juris software
● Elite Enterprise software
●Needles software/Worlddox
● Client Profiles software
●LMS Time Keeping and Time Matters
● LPS (Lender Processing Service), Servicing Connect, and Lenstar
●Westlaw, Lexus Nexus, and FastCase
●Typing speed: 110 WPM
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