Real Estate Paralegal

Posted on: 2009-06-03

Background Real Estate Paralegal and Closer with five-plus years experience handling all aspects of commercial and residential closings from start to finish—title review and abstracts to final post-closing title binders, as well as REO sales/foreclosures; also experienced in working with attorneys on mergers, acquisitions, UCCs, formation of corporations and LLCs, light litigation. Work Experience 2000–Present SouthState Paralegal Services, LLC (independent contractor) Dietrick Evans Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, GA (contract) Morris Schneider & Prior, Atlanta, GA McCalla Raymer, et al, Atlanta, GA (contract only) Robinson Rappaport Jampol Aussenberg & Schleicher, Atlanta, GA Michael Terrell & Associates (temp only) Education Trade School: The National Center for Paralegal Training, Atlanta; Paralegal Certificate Majors: Intellectual Property/Real Estate Trade School: Phillips College of Business, Columbus GA; Associates degree Majors: Business Administration/Accounting College: Columbus College (now Columbus State University); Bachelor’s degree studies Major: English/Literature Associations/Volunteer Work Member, Online News Association; Member, Writers Guild of America-East; Grievance Officer, the National Writers Union, Local #1987, Washington DC; Match Supervisor, Safehouse Outreach; Web Designer & Coordinator, Sister2Sister Mentoring Program. Software/Computer Skills Advanced in LandTech; MS Office and Corel WordPerfect (Word, Excel, QuattroPro, Outlook, Access, Publisher, Front Page); Access Contact Management/Database Software; Internet Research; Quicken; Quickbooks; Peachtree Accounting; CaseTrax; Citrix; Worldox; First Data; HTML/DHTML/CSS/PhP; PCLaw; PCDocs; First Data; Concordance; Summation; Time Matters; Doculex; Groupwise; Timeslips. Intermediate and light experience with SoftPro, Hotdocs, Nexis/Lexis; and more. ***Written References Available***