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Puerto Rico / Miami - Fort Lauderdale

• Prepare briefs, legal memorandum, pleadings, appeals, agreements, contracts, affidavits, and statements of issues involved in cases, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations about torts, immigration, constitutional, business, labor and employment law, among other civil law areas.• Generate summonses, subpoenas, complaints, motions, and pretrial agreements in Spanish and English.• Gather and analyze legal research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents.• Interpret federal, state, and local laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses regarding to claims, damages, benefits, and immigration, among others.• Provide advice in and outside of Puerto Rico on the processes of immigration to the United States and its territories. • Process visa applications (B-1, B-2, F-1, IR-1, IR-5, K-1, K-3), adjustment of status, family petitions, and citizenship applications. • Gather evidence and public documents to include them in immigration petitions, and translate them from Spanish to English.• Request, examine, and analyze evidence and legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.• Represent clients in court procedures and before government agencies.• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents.• Conduct notary functions within the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico, including swearing of documents, certificates of authenticity and preparation of deeds.• Manage and control the day-to-day functions of the legal office, including organization of schedules, report of income and expenses, among other management functions.

Puerto Rico

Time PeriodsFrom July 2011 to September 2011From June 2012 to August 2012From June 2013 to August 2013• Collaborated with applications for Veteran Affairs benefits and services, including compensation and pension claims, according with the provisions of federal laws.• Served as the primary contact for the veteran and his/her representative or advocate, and the decision maker for compensation and pension claims. • Received, created, and processed about 100 weekly veterans’ claims appeals through different computer applications.• Prepared weekly reports regarding to the compliance and assessment of 20 employees, including the review of more than 100 claims.• Analyzed, developed, and requested required evidence for claims in appeal status.• Gathered, reviewed, controlled, processed, and routed near to 500 documents and evidence weekly, related to veterans claims from several sources.• Analyzed and identified claims and veteran’s conditions in order to assign it to the appropriate team for review and or action.• Requested, processed, and evaluated medical examinations and opinions to determine the existence of or to evaluate disabilities resulting from disease or injuries.• Provided the veterans a duty to inform and assist along with the time limits of submission of evidence.• Conducted interviews by telephone with veterans in order to inform all requirements needed to further process a claim for benefits and services, and assist claimants with completion of the application and others forms.• Composed several communications to the veterans, representatives, advocates, and medical personnel about the status of the claims, requesting additional evidence, among others.• Managed files and work with different applications and digital veteran's records to update their claims' status, change of address or legal representation.

Puerto Rico

• Conducted legal research and memorandum writing about administrative, constitutional, labor and employment law, among other civil law areas.• Composed, drafted, reviewed and corrected legal documents such as briefs, complaints, pleadings, appeals, and complex motions regarding civil area over district and superiors courts.• Gathered and analyzed research data, such as documents, codes, statutes, decisions, and legal articles.• Verified citation and statutory references using original and online legal resources.• Supported and assisted attorneys in trial preparation, court filings, litigation documents production, and forensic economics reports. • Attended and assisted to hearings, trials, mediation, and arbitration process.• Provided research about corporate documentation and registration.• Met with clients, representatives, advocates, and lawyers to discuss details of case.• Assembled exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material.• Gathered, organized, and maintained information and tracked digital files of important case documents to make them available and easily accessible to attorneys. • Identified conflicts and determined procedures to improve the office productivity.• Provided administrative support especially to attorneys, including classified, recorded, and summarized numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using computers applications.

Puerto Rico

• Organized and supervised several educational programs in photojournalism aimed to near 800 students per semester from public schools. • Coordinated and performed the summer and winter camps projects for approximately 500 to 1,000 students in each session, including the logistic for the courses, transportation, facilities, and the human resources recruitment.• Created and implemented the curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction that meet the social and educational needs of these students.• Prepared course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.• Worked together with schools teachers to implement instructional technology and integrate technology with teaching.• Recommended and ordered purchase of instructional materials, supplies, and technological equipment.• Worked as Editor-in-Chief and Graphic Design Assistant for the Organization's Magazine, Apertura.

Puerto Rico

• Supervised and counseled undergraduate and graduate students to improve their grammatical abilities in Spanish.• Assisted and evaluated the students' oral presentations skills in the Spanish language related to marketing, finance, education, communications, and biology among others professional areas.• Corrected and realized proofreading to projects, documents and essays.• Assessed students’ progress throughout tutoring sessions. • Prepared reports, progress notes, and recommendations for students. • Maintained records of student’s assessments results, progress, or feedback.• Helped students to prepare a professional résumé by perfecting their writing skills as well as educating them for interview process and job seeking activities.

Ph.D. Student In Caribbean English, Linguistics, Caribbean English

Essays and Researches: • Historical Aspects in the Caribbean Migration • The Impact of Anglicisms from Legal Documents and Prosecutions.

Juris Doctor

Activities and Societies: • Professor Assistant - Hon. Aleida Varona Méndez, Puerto Rico Appellate Judge. Legal Research, Writing.

International Business, Trade, And Tax Law

Study abroad - International Law

New Development Of Family Law

Study abroad - International Law

Human Rights In Europe

Study abroad - International Law

Communication, Art And Design

Activities and Societies: Honor SocietyRelevant courses: • Independent research about public interventions for Harold Lidin's Students.