Ammar Shakir Email & Phone Number

Greater Philadelphia Area

Feasterville -Trevose, PA, USA

• Providing administrative and clerical support to attorneys and paralegals.
• Conducting office management tasks, correspondence, and preparation for pre-litigation process.
• Tracking the development of each case prior litigation to ensure timely case completion.
• Electronic filing of clients’ documents and information and insure the confidentiality of the firm records.
• Contributing to trial preparation in pre-litigation procedures.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Working with refugees and their families whom new to the country to define their objectives and goals in their new life in the US to develop guide or plan for each client. Also, providing a variety of social and.
• Assesses clients’ strength, needs, and abilities to document a record of the clients’ needs.
• Maintains a record for each client and updating it depending on each client’s progress to achieve the client’s goals.
• Reviews clients’ cases and records to track each client’s progress.
• Provides general life training for clients such as: job seeking skills, resume writing, using public transportation, etc.
• Provides translation (Arabic-English) services and teaches English as a second language.

Bazergun Oil Field, Missan, Southeast Iraq

• My role was Representing the corporation in courts, government departments, and the local community.
• Performed investigations in response to local workers’ complaints against corporation or its subcontractors.
• Prepared bi-weekly reports about the progress and the accomplishment of my department projects.
• Interviewed people living in the villages surrounding the oil field, where the corporation was conducting its operations, and prepared reports about what villagers needed. As a result, created jobs for villagers.
• Worked with the Iraqi Labor Ministry guidelines to issue approximately 300 work visa for the company's foreign workers.
• Arranged training courses for 30 high level local employees outside the country pursuant to Iraqi Oil Ministry guidelines.

Babylon, Iraq

• Performed initial interviews with clients to investigate facts. Discussed with clients any possible solution to solve disputes before filing lawsuit. Defended clients in Court or appeared in court on behalf of clients.
• Obtained acquittal for client accused of manslaughter
• Avoided trials by getting cases closed at the hearing level
• Appointed by court to defend individuals who could not afford lawyers’ fees and acquitted 80% of them.

Cob Adder (US Army Base), Dhi Qar, Iraq

• ITN is Transportation Company created by the US. Army in Iraq to transport military goods and equipment between US Army bases in Iraq. My role was to coordinate between the US army officials and my company personals to.
• Arranged over 100 security interviews for Iraqi trucks drivers.
• Oversaw loading and offloading of company trucks and ensured the cargo matched the documentation.
• Ensured appropriate safety procedures for transporting dangerous goods were followed.
• Created and sent daily operations reports to the company administration regarding all missions that took place that day, and all paperwork signed by the army documenting shipments received

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Master’S Degree, Law Foreign - Trained Llm

Studying various arias of law such as: Property , Corporations, Contracts, International Investment and Trade, Legal Writing and Research.

English As A Second/Esl, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor

Bachelor'S Degree, Law, Average

Studying various arias of law such as: Civil Law , Administrative law, Criminal, Commercial, Civil Procedures, Criminal Procedure.

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