Senior Real Estate Paralegal

JACQUELINE MADISON

**** *. ******** *****, *******, Arizona 85020

(Home) 602-***-**** ▪ (Cell) 602-***-**** ▪ **************@*****.***

SENIOR PARALEGAL

Highly accomplished professional with diverse experience in contracts, litigation, corporate and real estate law.

Key strengths and core competencies:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills ▪ Excellent organizational skills ▪ Ability to prioritize needs and goals ▪ Ability to analyze issues and interests ▪ Ability to develop and maintain awareness of hazards and safety precautions ▪ Ability to resolve and manage conflicts ▪ Strategic Planning and Project Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FREEPORT-McMoRan CORPORATION, Phoenix, AZ – 11/2000 - Present

A Fortune 500 Company

SENIOR PARALEGAL – Real Estate/Contracts/Corporate

• Manage all real estate related client requests; ensure compliance with contractual obligations and eliminate or substantially reduce Corporation’s liability exposure with regard to safety, operational, contractual and governmental regulations and policies. Provide assistance and coordinate with staff at the operations and other corporate departments to effectively address land related issues. Draft miscellaneous real estate agreements such as easements, right-of-way agreements and permits (access, utility, pedestrian, electric, sewer, telecommunications, and waterline); purchase and sale agreements (Buyer or Seller); license agreements; leases (grazing, small tract, ground, ranch, pasture, commercial and residential). Assist in and perform due diligence relating to real estate sales and purchases. Review environmental assessment reports. Communicate, negotiate and correspond with clients, landlords, subtenants, brokers, outside attorneys and title companies.

• Respond to document production requests and subpoenas; organize files for production responses; maintain compliance with litigation holds.

• Create and maintain databases, legal template directories and filing systems.

Perform legal, corporate and real estate related research. Initiate new matters into billing system, update. Scan and enter all completed transactions into PRMS system for financial and non-financial events, update as necessary.

KEY PROJECTS AND SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Developed real estate templates and templates directory.

• Code of Conduct – Project manager for website content, training course videos, translations (11 languages, 10 countries), timelines and cost analysis, including budgets and schedules.

• Lobbyist Activities – Responsible for originating lobbyist compliance program, monitoring lobbyist activities and quarterly reporting functions.

• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Responsible for set-up and monitoring of new legislation, rules and violations of the Act.

LAW OFFICES OF JEFFREY M. PROPER (retired), Phoenix, AZ – 1993 - 2000

Paralegal/ Office Manager

• Real Estate – Prepared real-estate related documents (partnership agreements, sales agreements, deeds of trust, promissory notes); communicated and corresponded with title companies and clients.

• Litigation – Participated in initial client interviews; performed fact investigation and analysis; file organization and document analysis, including preparation of chronologies; preparation of miscellaneous litigation related documents (summons, complaint, disclosure statement, discovery requests, notices, etc.); set up depositions; prepared digests of depositions; screened responsive and privileged documents; prepared trial notebooks, exhibits and legal authority; obtained trial settings; maintained legal calendar.

LINCOLN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, Phoenix, AZ – 1990 - 1993

Senior Litigation Paralegal

Maintained integrity of subsidiary bankruptcy claim files supervised case management of litigation and bankruptcy matters; created and maintained Legal Opinion and Legal Research Databases; reviewed outside counsels’ fee bills and budgets (lowering totals substantially); reviewed environmental assessment reports; liaison paralegal between Lincoln Savings, the Resolution Trust Corporation (“RTC”) and outside counsel; conducted privilege review of documents; responsible for maintaining status reports on all on-going litigation (including tracking all litigation matters sent to outside counsel); gathered data and produced numerous monthly and quarterly reports required by the RTC.

RTC took control of Lincoln Saving and Loan Association. =

Education:

University of Arizona – Business Major

Arizona State University – Paralegal Certificate

Arizona Real Estate Agent License - Active

Certified Records Manager – 6/2006

Certified Notary Public Signing Agent

Professional Development:

Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (“ECOA”) “Lobbying and Ethics” Seminar – 2/13/08

“Travel and Events Under the New Lobbying Rules: New Requirements, New Procedures and New Penalties” – 2/25/08

“Corporate Lobbying & Government Affairs”, Washington, D.C., 4/30/08

Skills:

Microsoft Office 2003 (including Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint); E-Counsel Web; Timeslips Deluxe, TRIM Document Management, PRMS (property management database) SharePoint, ARIBA (Global Sourcing Database)

Memberships: Maricopa County Bar Association; National Association of Legal Assistants

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