Administrative Assistant,Paralegal, Family, Civil, & Criminal Law

JUDITH WILLIAMS

EXPERIENCE

October ****-January 2024

Paralegal, Gravis Law, PLLC

Filed pleadings, orders, protection orders, divorces, handled exhibits, provided aid to criminal law, accounting law, transactional law, family law, elder law, estate law, and probate law attorneys in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and California. Performed discovery and communicated with other opposing litigation attorneys when necessary. Notary for attorneys, witness for attorneys in probate while clients signed elder care & other life planning documents. In person court filings and e-filings for Washington state courts, & Federal courts. Went to pretrial and ex parté hearings.

September 2017-October 2023

Legal Specialist – Contract Agencies: Express, RHI, Atheras

Held positions with: Excela Communications-Law.com, Mauer Law, ESDI, SNAP, Northwest Justice Project, Fragomen LLC (Remote), DC Cronin Law Office, Evergreen Elder Law, Engie Ecova, Stifel Financial Investments, Gustafson Law, MES Solutions, Powell Family Law Office, US Federal Office-Eastern Washington

Court hearings, court filings analyzed federal data & information for clients of USCIS, Federal Departments, document control, document review, financial assistance, corporate credit payments, legal audits, paralegal assistance, litigation discovery, liaison, clerical files for local district court judges, & Bates stamping. Office managerial, & secretarial for "V" & "C" level personnel. Pleadings, motions, liens, pretrial documents & archives

March 2017-August 2017

Legal Secretary, Spokane County – District Court and Prosecutor’s Office

Edited and filed complex legal documents, opened case files, supported staff as necessary, drafted summaries and pleadings for paralegals, maintained attorney’s files, and attained warrant signatures from Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and Judges.

May 2014-December 2016

International Jr. Paralegal, Brocade Communications (Hybrid)

IP trial case tracking, trial archival, filed legal documents, edited legal documents, and kept minute books covering intellectual property, international clients, patented files, and handled global matters in legal, development and technical outreach. Served as department document control specialist and legal generalist for 6 attorneys of major legal authority (i.e. Sales, HR, IP, R&D, SEC, Global, etc). Also performed tasks such as light accounting, invoicing, developed spreadsheets and template, completed research, data entry, and assisted with light projects for the Marketing department. maintained quality control, treasury signature authority, and corporate registrations.

April 2007-September 2013

Contracts Specialist, Life Scan J&J

Performed vendor legal contract maintenance and contract editing, government compliance, and high performance on tests of government quality/control. Other duties included processes, class of trade, contract research, Internet research, filing, archiving of hard copy materials, use of NetSuite, MDM (Oracle), SharePoint and Excel in the Legal Department and Contract Services. Also assisted with small project for the HR Department for the employment attorney.

January-December 2009

Patents Trial Assistant, HVAC of San Jose

Prepared legal documents and design coding for published work. Duties included process filings for accounting audits, archiving of hard copy materials, use of MS suite in Legal and Contract Services. Also assisted with small projects for the attorney.

CERTIFCATIONS

HIPPA

Advanced Paralegal Certification

Notary of the Public - Washington

KEY SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS

·Westlaw, LexisNexis, Relativity

·Federal, State, Local Filings & eFile

·Pleadings & Motions

·WA Court Forms

·Employment, Contract Law

·Civil, Transactional Law

·eDiscovery

·Bates Stamping

·Family Soft

·Escrow, NGS

·Digital Signature

·SCOMIS, JABS, PACER, Relativity

·NDAs, CDAs

·Oracle, Net Suite

·International Law, GDMS Systems

·Corporate Law, Securities, etc

·Criminal Law

·Elder Law, Trusts, Estates, etc

·Federal, State and Local Codes

·Personal Injury Law

·Transactional Law

·Contract Law

·Microsoft Advanced

·Law Matics; Practice Panther

·Clio, Simply Legal

·Clever Case, Paylocity

·Billable Hours, Basic Accounting

·SAP, ADP

EDUCATION

August 2000: Associate of Arts in Liberal Studies - Mission College

May 2010: Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies, Minor in Sociology – San Jose State University

March 2013: Advanced Paralegal Certification – University of California Santa Cruz

Advanced Paralegal Certifications, CLEs - Ongoing; Notary of the Public - Washington

VITAL INFORMATION

·Preferred Name

·Address

·Phone

·Email

·Judy

·Spokane County, Washington

·(408) 529 - 1394

·**************@*******.***

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