Barbara Flanagan Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Paralegal in the Legal & Compliance Department: the best department in the best company in the Whole World!

Farmington Hills, Michigan, Us

Paralegal in the Office of General Counsel

Works Published:Author: Code Name: Grackle. Published by Ronin Robot Press. http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Grackle-Spies-Houses-ebook/dp/B01DMEOPP6?ie=UTF8&keywords=barbara%20flanagan&qid=1461968918&ref_=sr_1_1&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Editor: Warrior by Terry Irving, Ronin Robot PressEditor: Mirage, Colorado: Road to redemption #1 by A.R. Arrington. Ronin Robot PressEditor: Clash at Cruel Creek: A Slate the Bounty Hunter Book, A.R. Arrington, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: Texas John Alden by Robert Ervin Howard, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: Gringos by B.M. Bower, Ronin Robot Press Annotator: The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: The Pioneer: A Tail of Two States by Geraldine Bonner, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: Treasure and the Trouble Therewith by Geraldine Bonner, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine, Ronin Robot PressAnnotator: Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine, Ronin Robot Press (October 2015)Annotator: Alcatraz by Max Brand, Ronin Robot Press (August 2015 Publication)Annotator: The Courage of Marge O'Doone, Ronin Robot Press (August 2015 Publication)

• Establish a Compliance Department and train existing staff. • Research federal, state, and local laws to test compliance of existing loan products. • Conduct internal audits to prepare for state examinations and research responses.• Develop business rules for current and planned loan products. • Research and recommend compliance strategies for new loan products or new states.• Recommend and implement Enterprise Content Management System for organization.• Draft compliance policies and procedures.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• For the Chief Compliance Officer: o Managed the Regulations Group responsible for liaison with state auditors during audit exams and for drafting responses to exams. o Worked with web developers to design database for tracking state agency exam reports and responses; and designed database for tracking new legislation, regulations, and local ordinances. Worked with Westlaw technicians to create a Westlaw portal library containing links to statutes and regulations for all products and services offered by Cash America. o Conducted legal research on requested topics.o Participated in update to business rules for pawn and deferred presentment loan point-of-sale systems.o Document Management; Enterprise Content Management. Compiled requirements for addressing the needs of the Legal and Compliance Departments and evaluated ECM products to find the best options available; served as User Administrator. (Livelink by Open Text selected). o CFPB exam: Prepared company for exam by parsing the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s Examiner’s Manual into manageable parts, identifying the types of documents needed, and the key people in each department who would participate in the exam and provide documentation for the examination. Created a shared drive modeled on the CFPB’s Examiner’s Manual and managed document organization. Participated in the exam by producing reports.o Monitored state, federal, and municipal laws through a variety of redundant sources to ensure compliance and timely response to changes in the laws. • For the Legal Department:o Conducted legal research and court case tracking and trained Westlaw users.o Evaluated complaints environment, recommended a tracking tool and participated in development of the tool, as well as in development of policies and procedures for complaints categorizing, tracking, resolution, and reporting.o Managed online law library.

Performed tax and securities legal research and factual research for partners in M&A energy firm. Tracked legislative and regulatory developments and compiled legislative histories. Set up online legal libraries.

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Performed factual and legal research and reference assistance for approximately 250 attorneys, a large marketing department, the records management/conflicts department, directly for clients, and paralegals in six offices. Specialties: environmental and energy law (RCRA and Oil & Gas); disaster planning; and corporate governance and compliance. Conducted courses for new and seasoned attorneys and paralegals in legal research, statutory and regulatory research methods, and in the cost-effective use of online resources. Edited library newsletter.

Performed regulatory and litigation research for the Environmental Practice Group and others. Supported one attorney as legal assistant with clients and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. Created, indexed, and maintained the environmental library subject files and ISYS databases and supervised the work of library contractor/indexer. Editor of the Environmental Department client newsletter. 1993-1995, Word Processor to Litigation Practice Group.

Taught legal database searching and cite checking in combination with traditional legal research methods.

New York City, Ny, Us

Designed database and workflow processes, wrote detailed requirements document for programmer, and implemented electronic document management/barcode system (“Wanda”) to organize for retrieval and comparison to Lexis documents more than one million archived court and agency documents and 350,000 new documents annually received in print and electronically. Worked intensively with programmer to design databases and integrate multiple platform software packages. Programmed collection routines for remote bar code terminals as the need arose for new processes. Once all software was operational, managed six full-time employees and a crew of 30 temporary workers to index and retrieve documents.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Provided all professional library services for four offices, including factual and legal research as well as conflicts searches using Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, and Dialog Information Services. Supervised three full-time employees. Editor of Exhibit A, Taft employee newsletter. Wrote and edited library newsletter. 1982 - 1984, Library Assistant.

Oxford, Oh, Us

Taught three courses per year in Freshman Composition and English Literature.

Masters Of Arts, Thesis Emphasis

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature (British And Commonwealth)