Bethany Richter M.A. Email & Phone Number

Remote

Senior Paralegal for writing intensive, high-touch cases. Prepare legal briefs, draft petitions, and manage casework. Develop templates for team and ensure internal documents are up to date to industry standards.

Remote

New York, New York, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

• Prepare employment-based immigration petitions with an focus on L-1 visas, H-1B, PERM, I-140's, Adjustment of Status, and derivative beneficiary petitions.
• Manage client documents, case load, and have direct contact with clients and beneficiaries. Provide customer service to ensure that client concerns are addressed.
• Draft legal documents for attorney review, review and edit documents, compile responses to USCIS requests for evidence, and assist attorneys in document preparation.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Legal Assistant to an immigration law firm, specializing in employment and family immigration law.
• Manage the firm's PERM petitions, monitoring the progress on each application, keep track of all timelines, and documenting the full PERM recruitment. Gather supporting evidence & draft PERMs.
• Manage the firm's Requests for Evidence (RFE's), track upcoming deadlines, request supporting evidence from companies, draft the response for the attorney review.
• Draft H-1B, TN, and assist with L-1 petitions.
• Assist in training new assistants in preparing employment-based petitions, correspondence, and office management.

• Teach Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Ethnicity and Intro to Queer Theory, reaching 582 students.
• Develop 280 strategic lesson plans, including 52 individualized learning plans for students with disabilities, and collect qualitative and quantitative data for department outcomes.
• Delegate to Steering Committee, designing yearly outreach: impacting 1,257 students, designate and establish budget, analyze strategic goals and outcomes.

Phoenix, AZ

• Prepared legislative session publication for cities and towns member organizations and assisted with legislative workshops for 91 cities and 430 city officials in new legislative policies.
• Drafted daily news briefings for social media and manage Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, reaching 741 followers and a total of 2,100 impressions.
• Wrote copy for yearly magazine impacting 890 and built a network of 46 cultural institutions and non-profits for collaborative partnership.
• Planned, designed, and organized 4 conferences for 3,400 elected officials and city employees.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

• Led 5-person team in planning strategic vision of Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), growing the families fed from 70/week to 120/week, as well as adding $2,500 in monthly funding.
• Created strategic action plan for marketing and community outreach, reaching 120 via publications and 350 social media followers.
• Utilized qualitative data to establish program to serve at-risk food scarce communities, helping to fund 12,389 lbs. of produce shares.

B.A., Speech Communications And Urban Studies

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Sustainable Communities