Paralegal Resume Example
Ambitious, highly detail oriented, organized Paralegal with a combined 3 years' experience in the legal and insurance industries seeking to leverage my experience and education to serve as the point person in a fast paced corporate legal environment. As a very adaptable, self-motivated, positive individual with a growth mindset who prides herself in her work, I believe I am the ideal candidate for the position of Executive Legal Assistant at Copart. I am very skilled in my ability to prioritize work and manage my time, and my strong interpersonal skills ensure smooth communications and promote positive relationships. I have consistently exceeded expectations throughout my career and maintained positive relationships with my prior employers. I currently hold a BAAS in Organizational Leadership as well as took college courses in Paralegal Studies. As an adjuster with Esurance, we used Copart as our salvage vendor and I would be privileged to get the opportunity to contribute to the overall success of an ever growing, outstanding company.
- Perform paralegal duties including but not limited to legal research, copy editing, legal document interpretation and analysis and legal document drafting.
- Responsible for managing Claims Service of Process receipt and distribution as well as facilitation, training and managing of Subpoena Response Team consisting of legal assistants and associate paralegals.
- Managed team of 8 legal assistants responding to 1500 civil claim subpoenas year.
- Perform data collection, analysis and reporting of functioning of processes to attorneys and develop/implement strategies to address problem areas.
- Function as primary auditor of Subpoena Response Team and Service of Process work product and use results to create necessary change to ensure compliance.
- Act as point of contact within company for legal department and manage meetings, coordinate employee witness testimony, coordinate schedules and travel, and more.
- Handled single and multi-car property damage accidents and was expected to have full understanding of coverage concerns of different complexities, policy interpretation, exposure recognition and liability determination to analyze and move claims towards resolution using best practices.
- Communicated compassionately with customers to help them through their claim process in fast, fair and easy manner.
- Identified exposures and refer files for triage to appropriate level.
- Responsible for obtaining all information and contacting all pertinent parties to accident and performing timely, thorough, and fair investigation to resolve coverage concerns and make liability determinations.
- At request of management, served as mentor to new claims advisors.
- Consistently exceeded all expectations of this position.
- Worked directly with owner of company to create and implement effective marketing strategies in order to increase overall growth and development of company's financial goals.
- Served as face of company to external business contacts, conducted data analysis, created training guides and made personal calls to insurance agencies in DFW Metroplex to generate leads.
- Responsible for creating booths for trade shows and expos and representing company alongside company owner.
- Kept schedule for business meetings with insurance agencies, commercial property owners, healthcare facilities, etc as well as attended networking events.
- Exceeded expectations in this role, and was given opportunity to teach continuing education courses to insurance adjusters as form of lead development.
- Acted as assistant to paralegal and performed limited legal research and analysis.
- Interpreted legal documents.
- Proof read, edited and compiled legal documents.
- Kept daily record of electronic and hard copy filing of documents
- Communicated with clients and outside organizations and agencies on case matters, prepared and formatted legal and management reports.
- Responded to all case related inquiries.
- Kept schedule for firm.
- Performed miscellaneous office keeping duties such as bookkeeping, filing, light cleaning, etc.
- Client communication
- Data collection & analysis
- Drafting legal documents
- Legal research
- Office management
- Process development
- Proficient in MS Office
- Corporate law
- Legal compliance
- Confidentiality
- Multi-tasking
- Auditing
- Knowledge of civil procedure
- Decision-making
- Facilitating coordination
I am planning to enroll in an online accredited MLA in the Summer of 2020.
I hope to obtain my JD once I obtain my MLA.
President's scholar December 2017.
Graduated Magna Cum Lade in May 2018.
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Resume Overview
School Attended
- Texas A&M University at Commerce
- El Centro Community College
Job Titles Held:
- Paralegal
- Claims Advisor
- Business Development Representative
- Legal Administrative Assistant
Degrees
- BAAS : Organizational Leadership
No Degree : Obtained, Paralegal Studies
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