Experience

Currently conduct three or four real estate closings per week, review title reports and follow-up with payoffs, final reconciliations with lenders, and Registries of Deeds
Interview witnesses, propound and respond to interrogatories, request productions and admissions
Customize and administer the executions of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care proxy documents
Sole counsel representing terminated employees at unemployment administrative hearings
Former Legal Regulatory Analyst and Compliance Specialist overseeing regulatory compliance deadlines and prepare reports as they relate to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and other laws of the Department of Telecommunications and Energy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal Communication Commission of the United States Government
Examination, preparation, and processing of technical legal documents by reviewing incoming materials to determine the need for assembly and the nature of the status of the case involved
Verify citations and statutory references contained in legal documents against primary sources, legal texts, reports, Federal Reporter system, CFR, MGL, USC, Congressional Register, Congressional Research Service and the Library of Congress

Training of legal assistants and Paralegals in the operations of a law office including:

  preparing bankruptcy petitions, legal correspondence, computerized legal research, interoffice memorandums; and
  administrative duties pertaining to the smooth running of a legal practice, including docketing of attorney schedules; tickler files for court deadlines, and the running of Statute of Limitations
Pro Bono legal counsel for low income and indigent persons in need of legal advocacy, 2000 to the present time with the following agencies:
  New Center for Legal Advocacy, New Bedford, MA
  Voluntary Lawyers for the Arts, Boston, MA
  Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA
  Volunteer Lawyers Project, Boston, MA
Coordinator for South Shore Attorneys Networking Group, 2004 to the present
  Organize meetings for Attorneys of Small and Solo Law Offices practicing in the South Shore of Boston, MA
Former Congressional Intern Aide to former United States Congressman Sam Gejdenson, of Connecticut
Former Paralegal with the United States Attorney’s Office, Criminal Division, New Haven, CT

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