Paralegal

Skilled office professional with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Highly organized and detailed-oriented; efficiently manages time and projects with close attention to deadlines. Effective in stressful situations and able to successfully work with diverse populations.

EXPERIENCE

Drafting legal documents, affidavits, and preparing orders.

Serving as a liaison between attorneys, investigators, court clerks, and judges.

Legal research.

Proofreading for accuracy and consistency.

Opening and maintaining case files.

Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and scheduling applications.

FORMAL TRAINING AND COURSE WORK IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW

Workers' Compensation: Drafting of pleadings, preparing motions, discovery, preparing pretrials, and trial preparations.

Ethics: Client's confidences, conflicts of interests, and unauthorized practice of law.

Contracts: Offers, acceptance, considerations, illegal contracts, contractual capacity, remedies, Uniform Commercial Code and

discharge of obligations.

Research: Statutes, digest, case law, citators, dictionaries, online databases.

Torts: Negligence, intentional torts, strict liability, personal injury litigation, settlements.

Criminal Law: Statutory and common law, criminal theory and interpretation of statutes.

Constitutional Law: Overview of the Bill of Rights, interpretation of those rights.

EDUCATION

FMU- Formally known as Tampa College, Lakeland, FL, May of 1993

WORK HISTORY

Paralegal, SMITH, FEDDELER, SMITH & MILES, Lakeland, FL, 2007-2008

Paralegal, Burnetti, P.A., Lakeland, FL, 2002-2007

Customer Service Representative, GEICO, Lakeland, FL, 2001-2002

Crew Member, McDonalds, Lakeland, FL, 1999-2004

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