Keri Peardon Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, TN

Beginning in the Legal Department as the Assistant to the CLO, I have moved into the position of data management for our anchor stores sub-department. I am in charge of organizing our data and databases to make us more efficient, and I also create tools for other departments--including leasing, peripherals, and specialty leasing--by extracting information.

Nashville, TN

Part-time paralegal work in a general law office that specialized in LGBT law. I produced wills and other estate-related documents for gay and lesbian couples, as well as second parent adoption documents. We also handled divorce and child custody for both heterosexual and homosexual couples.

• Prepare complaints, interrogatories and answers, MDAs, motions, orders, and final decrees for divorces.
• Prepare orders, motions, child support worksheets, and parenting plans for child custody and adoption cases.
• Prepare and file Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies through Best Case. File modifications, counseling certificates, and other necessary paperwork electronically through CM/ECF.
• Prepare responses, questions for depositions, and other documents related to personal injury/ wrongful death cases. Research medical and drug facts.
• Prepare motions, orders, TBI clearances, and other documents related to criminal cases.
• Prepare wills.

· Assisted paralegal with real estate closings (purchases and sales).· Checked title against underlying documents and worked with title company.· Worked with tenants, lenders and buyers to provide closing documents by deadline.· Created due diligence packages for buyers, tenants and lenders, both in paper copies and on CDs. · Responsible for tracking all.

· Created leases and other legal documents for shopping mall tenants.· Processed leases for Landlord execution: reviewed leases for tenant-made changes, notified leasing agent, sought approval of business points from Vice President of Leasing, made copies of relevant paperwork, delivered to Senior Vice President for signature, updated department database.·.

• Registered students for semester classes bi-annually and updated records throughout the year.
• Calculated student GPAs and wrote yearly report for athletic award committee.
• Updated student information in Registrar’s Directory; helped print, copy, bind and distribute Registrar’s Directory. Sent applicable student information to campus newspaper.
• Processed transcripts and grade reports. Organized student information into advising packets for professors. Mailed grades and transcripts to students.
• “Built” classes in Banner: activated course number and title, assigned professor and scheduled room and meeting times.
• Designed forms for student curriculum files.

B.A., History

High School

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