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Wilmington, De, Us

West Grove, Pa

Provide copyediting for reports, and review contracts and insurance policies. Handle personnel issues and documentation relating to staffing, recruitment, training, and performance evaluations. Assist with conference registration and travel arrangements. Prepare the payroll, issue invoices and financial statements, receive and make payments, and manage company accounts.

Wilmington, Delaware

Writing, graphic design and proofreading of commercial and residential appraisal reports. Researching public records and market data, and doing some fieldwork and photography. Administrative record-keeping for payroll and taxes, and assisting real estate appraiser as required.

• Researched Westlaw and LexisNexis, and analyzed legal documents for accuracy.• Prepared and e-filed complaints, reports and briefs for a small corporate law firm.• Received visitors and callers, sorted mail and prepared bulk mailings.

Wilmington, Delaware

• Prepared correspondence, briefs, petitions, pleadings, contracts and wills. • Managed personal injury cases, filed electronic court documents, and summarized medical records. • Met and followed up with clients, and conferred with medical and legal professionals by telephone. • Notarized affidavits and other documents as required.

Hockessin, Delaware

• Assisted in management of litigation cases ranging from personal injury to corporate.• Prepared legal documents, maintained paper and electronic files, and transcribed dictation.

Newark, Delaware

· Read proofs for grammatical, typographical and compositional accuracy.· Conferred daily with project staff to outline plans for and review works in progress.· Reviewed and verified reports for warehouse, and ordered replenishment of depleted stock.

Taught undergraduate course in technical writing, analytical research skills, and developing feasibility studies, surveys, brochures and reports. Software taught included Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

New Castle County, Delaware

Substitute teacher on short-term assignments for grades 1 through 12 in the Christiana and Colonial School Districts.

Newark, Delaware

Tutored and mentored four students per week in reading and writing at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Delaware.

Newark, Delaware

· Routed incoming callers and mail, and recorded minutes of staff meetings.· Maintained departmental records and web pages, and improved databases.· Wrote news releases and edited newsletters and laboratory manuals. · Trained and managed five work-study students in preparing bulk mailings.

· Transcribed dictation, ordered medical records, and prepared legal correspondence.· Arranged for depositions and independent medical examinations of witnesses.

Paralegal Certificate, Professional And Continuing Studies

Received with Honors in February 2008

Bachelor Of Arts, English

Activities and Societies: America Reads While both a student and employed as a Senior Secretary at UD, I had the advantage of working.