LAN-VU HUNG PHAM
(ALAN PHAM)
**** ******** *** ******* ******* 32807
CELL: 407-***-****
****.*******@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Position as Paralegal or Legal Assistant using my twenty five years of experience in assisting Attorneys and over ten years as a Vietnamese Interpreter for King County District Court of Washington State;
QUALIFICATIONS
•Sign up new PI clients, getting police report, help Attorneys investigate the motor vehicle accident,
•Open new PI file by calling both Averse and client’s Insurance Companies to get new claims number, send out representation letters, request Medical Records and prepare demand packages for Attorneys when clients done treating.
•Help Attorney prepare material; prepare witness to be ready to testify in Court for Personal Injury, Divorce, Criminal cases trials.
•Sitting and working with Attorney in Deposition, Arbitration and Mediation
•Interpreted from English to Vietnamese and from Vietnamese to English for King County District Court in Seattle, Washington;
RECENT PROFRESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
•State Farm Insurance 03/18/2022 to present:
_ Customer services: answer phone, take credit card payment from customers through ECRM or NECHO systems, input any requirement into customers profile.
•Madarich Law Firm 10/15/2021 to 03/15/2022:
_ Cunsumers Law, E-File Court documents.
•2010 to March 2020: Part time Paralegal to Criminal, Personal Injury, Family Law and Immigration Attorney, Robert S. Huff Esq.
PERSONAL INJURY CASES:
_ On call 24 hours for Vietnamese clients;
_ Meeting clients at home or at the Hospital to investigate the incident and sign-up new clients;
_ Took pictures of clients damages vehicle and accident scenes;
_ Drafting letters to Insurance Adjusters;
_Requesting Medical Billings and Records from AMR, Emergency, Treating Doctors;
_ Prepare demand package for the Attorney to send to Insurance Company; _ Negotiated Settlement for Personal Injury clients;
CRIMINAL DEFENSE:
_ Meeting Vietnamese clients with an Attorney for Criminal Defense in Jail and in Federal Detention to translate Police and DEA arresting reports and Court Documents;
_ Remind clients for their Court date;
_ Working with Attorney to find best resolutions for Pleading or go to Trial;
IMMIGRATION:
_ Prepare proper USCIS forms for Vietnamese Clients regarding Immigration issues;
_ Prepared documents for Attorney to Vacated Deportation Order for Green Card clients;
FAMILY LAW:
_ Prepared Dissolution documents for Divorce clients,
_ Prepared documents, clients and witnesses if cases go to Trial;
•2008 to 2010: Legal Assistant to Criminal and Personal Injury Attorney, Salah A. Kornas Esq.
_Signed up new clients including PI and Criminal
_ Drafting letters and responding by telephone to Insurance Adjusters;
_ Prepare demand package for the Attorney to send to Insurance Company; _ Translate Police Report to Vietnamese clients;
_ Meeting Vietnamese clients with an Attorney in Jail and Federal Detention to translate Police and DEA arresting reports and Court Documents.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
•2009 to March 2020: Part time qualified Vietnam Interpreter for King County District Court;
•2005 to 2007: Medical interpreter for SCCA Hospital in Seattle Washington;
•1993 to 1995: Genie Industry at a Wasted Water Treatment Operator;
•1986 to 1989: Electronic Assembler for Mannesmann Tally Computer Printer Company.
EDUCATION
•Evergreen High School in Seattle, Washington;
•SOIC Trade College;
•Paralegal
HARD SKILL:
•Fluent in both English and Vietnamese;
•Customer service;
•Public relation;
•Qualified Vietnamese Court and Hospital Interpreter.
• Insurance Law, Family Law and Criminal Law by working as a Paralegal to Multiple Attorneys for the last 25 years.