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Southfield, Michigan

Paralegal in the finance, real estate and corporate transaction departments, including representation of borrower, purchaser, seller, and lender. Represented lenders on asset and real estate based lending, lines of credit, and equipment loans. Primary duties include review of loan term sheets, organizational documents, UCC and litigation searches, leases, drafting checklists and loan documents, and coordinating and working with senior partners from initiation to closing. Corporate duties include preparing and filing UCCs, formation documents, preparing entity organizational documents, including company agreements, amendments, resolutions, incumbency certificates and organizational charts, along with providing UCC and litigation searches summaries. Real estate duties include extensive review of title, survey, zoning reports, title documents, research regarding property issues and coordinating closings with title companies. Extensive experience in reviewing and summarizing leases, purchase agreements, asset management agreements, property management agreements, along with preparing SNDAs, Estoppels and title affidavits. High volume of transactional work includes extensive correspondence with title companies, surveyors, third party providers, clients, borrower/lender counsel, investors and recording offices to coordinate and facilitate each aspect required in each transaction, including coordinating signature pages, final documents, and preparing closing books.

Plymouth, Michigan

Performed paralegal and legal assistant duties for the General Counsel and attorneys in the legal department. Acted as project manager and provided support to the CEO for various projects. Primary duties included organizing and tracking invoices for the global legal department related to vendor, project, case and budget. Responsible for ensuring payment of invoices by local and global accounting departments. Coordinator for the review, execution and distribution of contracts for all corporate departments and global sites. Management of contract database, including verification of corporate procedures, entry of terms and scheduling notifications. Provided general administrative support for all legal matters, including drafting documents, word processing, coordinating and organizing documents related to all matters for the legal department. As issues arose in other departments, facilitated assistance from the legal department.

Southfield, Michigan

Performed executive legal assistant duties for the corporate, transaction and real estate division, with a high level of interaction with clients, investors and partners. Provided essential support to the managing partner and chief financial officer in business and corporate formation and restructures, real estate, investment offerings, estate planning, and taxation. Duties included intensive document processing, data management, record consolidation, correspondence with parties and coordination of logistics regarding real estate transactions, loan transactions, leases, contracts, HUD insured loans and investment offerings. Further duties included organization of due diligence documents, entity formations and filings, maintenance of entity documents, UCC searches and filings, recording documents, preparation of closing binders and ensuring finalization of post-closing items. Provided support in the area of employment law, including filing responses with state and federal employment agencies, reconciling employer due diligence, and intake review of employment handbooks. Assisted in the intake, drafting, and finalization of independent and franchise lease agreements.

Southfield, Michigan

Performed paralegal and executive assistant duties for two shareholders with regard to business planning, taxation, corporate and real estate transactions. Responsible for creating, filing and updating organizational documents for limited liability companies, corporations, and limited partnerships, including operating agreements, bylaws, resolutions, organizational charts and corporate minutes. Duties included reviewing entity structures and drafting the appropriate documents for transactions. Coordinated corporate, real estate, banking and HUD financing transactions, including being responsible for checklists, obtaining due diligence items, meeting deadlines and distribution of documents and updates. As lender’s counsel, created checklists, reviewed loan commitments, drafted initial loan documents, performed UCC searches and filings and coordinated due diligence. Further assisted with survey review, title commitment analysis, deeds, easements, property tax issues and recording of documents. Responsibilities also included coordinating final invoices, preparation of closing binders and conclusion of post-closing issues. Coordinator of Landlord/Tenant division, including data management, filings, negotiating judgments, attendance at court hearings and providing clients with reports and status updates. Also assisted in implementation of Bankruptcy software and applications for preparation of filings and provided support with regards to Michigan Liquor Control submissions.

Southfield, Michigan

Performed legal assistant duties for the intellectual property firm in the litigation division. Responsible for the manual and electronic maintenance of the litigation cases and docket. Further responsibilities included determining docket response times for litigation pleadings, updating calendars, scheduling depositions and holding monthly meetings with the litigation team for case status updates.

Southfield, Michigan

Performed legal assistant duties for the high volume collections firm. Responsibilities included physical and electronic filings, preparation of computerized and standardized pleadings, coordination of debtor payment plans and providing clients with updates. The high volume of work required the extensive use of computerized diary system and detailed documentation.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Legal Studies

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