Bernardita K. Agyekum

410-***-**** • adg9sa@r.postjobfree.com • Essex, Maryland

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Detail-oriented Paralegal who applies great in writing skills in drafting, legal memorandum, briefs motions, pleadings and correspondence.

Conducts all legal business professionally and with little guidance from attorneys. Skillful at collaborating with the attorneys and legal assistants.

HIGHLIGHTS

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Personal Injury Law & Personal injury expert.

MYCASE- Software

Lexis Nexis

Westlaw

SDAT

Administrative duties

Translation

Document reviews

Case Management

Team oriented

Decisive

Understands confidentiality

Drafts of complaints

Real Estate Law- Deeds

Criminal Law

Corporate Law

Employment Law

Construction Litigation

Employment Litigation

Medical Malpractice Litigation

Contracts Law & Litigation expert

Property Litigation

Civil Litigations

Personal Injury Litigation

Languages: Fluent in Swedish, Twi, Danish & Norwegian

State E-file (MDEC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PARALEGAL

The Law Offices of John W. Nowicki, P.A., Bel Air, MD December 2019- Present

Managing Personal Injury Cases (Auto Accidents) and Slip and Fall.

Personal Injury Litigation start to finish. Prepare for trials, prepare the file, preparing exhibits, listing all the medical records/ bills to have exhibits on.

Prepare letters of representation, requesting medical records, request for documents from clients, sending out settlement forms, demand packages, correspondence with insurance adjusters. Correspondence with attorneys and clients.

Negotiations with adjusters for settlements.

Obtaining and organizing documentation required at different stages of the cases in all Personal Injury cases.

Processing PIP and Medpay for payments of client’s medical bills.

Maintain close contact with the clients.

Review all medical records.

MDEC efiling.

Federal efiling

CM/ECF and PACER filing.

Employment Law: drafting demand letters, consultation with clients, contacting the EEOC, file complaints, follow up with the EEOC on settlements, update clients and update the attorneys, negotiate with EEOC for settlement, sending out demands.

Family Law: Adoption

Construction Litigation and personal injury Litigation.

Property Litigation.

Corporate law.

Medical Malpractice Litigation.

Collection suits, draft complaints and letters.

Criminal law: draft pleadings, preparing and reviewing discovery packages, including disclosure statements, answers to interrogatories, and production requests.

Contracts law: review contracts, draft contracts, draft motions, draft pleadings, draft interrogatories and production of documents and etc.

Real Estate Law: draft deeds, draft motions in Property issues/ litigation.

Wills, draft wills and file with the courts.

Answering phones and returning voicemail messages with clients and the courts.

Intake with clients.

Westlaw and LexisNexis for research in general litigation and various of law.

Administrative duties, scheduling meetings, answering phones, scanning, copy, mailing and taking payments.

CHIEF OF STAFF/PARALEGAL Aug 2018 – January 2019

The Law Offices of Gabriel J. Christian, Bowie, MD

MDEC efiling.

Drafting Wills, Guardianship, Motions, Pleadings and Contracts.

Proofread motions, contracts for appropriate formatting, spelling and grammar.

Prepare check requests for processing with appropriate backup and timely submission to accounting for payment.

Intake with Clients regarding Criminal, Personal Injury, Church and Wills.

Review contracts.

Correspondence with Attorneys, Paralegals and Legal Secretary for case updates in Criminal law Personal Injury, Family law and Wills.

Draft correspondence, pleadings, discovery, and other related documents.

Assisting the Attorneys in coordinating discovery in Criminal, and Family Law.

Assisting the Attorneys to prepare for hearings, trials and litigation.

MYCASE: Upload documents, court dates, discovery, legal billing, case management

Scheduling dates with District court or Circuit Court for upcoming hearings or trial dates for the clients.

Scheduling upcoming trial dates on the office calendar.

Weekly meetings with the team members for Case Review. Reviewing new cases for the week and see what has been prepared.

Scheduling Conference meetings for the Attorneys.

Translate for clients in Swedish and Twi.

LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT March 2018 – June 2018

Jenkins Block & Associates P.C. Baltimore, MD

SSI and SSD. Administrative duties: Scan files, filing cases in chronological order.

Updated hearing lists for the Attorneys. Maintain the mail incoming and outgoing. Organize supplies in the copying room. Maintain copies and faxes for Legal Assistants.

Errands for the office such as dropping of documents to social security, odar and workers compensation commissioner. Maintain ARS downloads such as files and exhibit lists of claimants to Legal Assistants and Attorneys.

Social security submission/ data entry of claimants for the Legal Assistants and noted in the system of what was noted.

Client billings submit and revised in the system.

Composed materials.

Maintain a high volume of calls.

Transfer calls to Legal Assistants and Attorneys.

SPRING INTERN (UNPAID) January 2018 – March 2018

State’s Attorney’s Office(District Court of Baltimore County), Towson, MD

Interned for the unit of Domestic Violence (Criminal Cases).

Assisted Prosecutors on discovery for Domestic violence cases.

Investigated Domestic Violence (DV) cases.

Legal discoveries assigned for DV.

Listening to 911 calls from victims and writing summaries.

Attending court hearings and trials such as: domestic violence trials or murder trials.

Maintain confidentiality of client information; and

other duties as assigned.

LITIGATION INTERN (UNPAID) October 2017- January 2018

Office of Attorney General (OAG), Baltimore, Maryland

Worked directly with Chief Counsel of regulatory and litigation unit of OAG responsible for enforcing Maryland’s tobacco laws and recovery under 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.

Reviewed cigarette manufacturers’ State filings for compliance with State laws and regulations and advised attorneys of potential violations.

PARALEGAL/LEGAL ASSISTANT (UNPAID) June 2017-August 2017

The Law Offices of Elizabeth Anu Lawrence, Owings Mills, Maryland

Greeting visitors, answering phones in professional way.

Effective communication within the firm and with outside contacts.

Organization of files.

Responsible for keeping record of appearances in court, scheduling meetings and processing payments.

Maintain order in calendars and records of supplies and inventory current for the office.

Able to create various forms for effective correspondence, and perform data entry and general administrative tasks, such as scanning and filing of documents. Provide support to, Attorney other staff, for the smooth operation of the office.

Translate for clients.

Assisted clients on I-130 and other documents.

Correspond with Department of Homeland Security for updates on cases.

Lobbyist Intern (UNPAID) January 2017- April 2017

Pica & Associates, LLC, Annapolis,

Schedule meetings with legislators and Governor’s staff, preparing testimonies.

Maintain bill files, monitoring legislation for different clients, meeting with clients,

Track bills that were important for the office to use too lobby for the prospective clients.

Administrative duties: answering phones, maintain filings. Receive correspondence, greeting clients. maintaining the office calendar.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s in arts (B.A.): Government and Public Policy December 2017

University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland

Relevant Coursework

•Constitutional Law

Associate of Applied Arts (A.A): Psychology May 2015

Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA

Relevant Coursework

•Criminal Law

LICENSES

Notary Public September 2018- September 2021

Associations

American Association of Notaries April 2020- Present

National Political Science Association August 2016- Present

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