Civil Service

RESUME

Betty J. Clark

***** ***** ***** *****

Silver Spring, MD 20906

305-***-****

***************@*****.***

POSITION DESIRED: PARALEGAL (LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING)

EMPLOYMENT

**** – 2019

Dansie & Dansie, LLP

406 Fifth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

202-***-****

Skills:

Legal research

Filed many pleadings with DC CaseFileXpress, and opened new cases with CaseFileXpress

Checked dockets with Court View and E-File to prepare pleadings and maintain calendars

Obtained documents from DC Courts web page, e.g. Soldiers and Sailors Relief act affidavits, probate petitions, divorce petitions, wage garnishment order, and the like

Cite checks

Prepared complaints (D.C. Superior Court Civil Division; Maryland District Court; federal District Court)

Updated attorneys’ calendars

Maintained chart to track due dates and miscellaneous information on pending cases as well as pre-litigation cases

Kept track of settlement offers and responses

Drafted motions in criminal and civil cases

Drafted discovery documents

Drafted correspondence with clients and opposing counsel

Kept track of client notification of new court dates

Drafted notices of claim to administrative agencies (pursuant to D.C. Code 12-309, FTCA, and the like)

Obtained medical records of clients

Drafted demand letters to insurance companies

Drafted summonses

Arranged for personal service,of complaint pakages and filing affidavits of service,

Drafted subpoenas,

Drafted deposition notices

Drafted probate petitions

Drafted confidential settlement statements for mediation proceedings

Drafted joint pretrial statements

Filed documents in D.C. Superior Court and Maryland District Courts

Filed documents in D.C. Maryland federal district court

Part-time Paralegal (evenings and weekends)

Colin M. Dunham, Esquire

10010 Greenock Road

Silver Spring, MD 20901

301-***-****

Prepared motions and discovery documents, criminal cases – DC Superior Court

PUBLICATION

Clark’s Survey of the D.C. Law of Evidence (two volumes; 1989; revision in 1990)

EDUCATION

J.D. (1972)

Howard Law School

LLM (1978)

George Washington University

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