Adeline Alizee
Covington,WA
Summary
Driven Legal Assistant with 20 years of experience in Legal Experience. Highly skilled at multitasking and prioritizing tasks to complete projects on time and determine appropriate courses of action. Committed to streamlining processes to facilitate growth.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Paralegal / Assistant
Loeffler Law Group, PLLC
11.2019 - Current
- Communicating and working with clients obtain proper information and documentations in order to start process
- Reviewing emails, drafting letters, notices and fee agreements
- Preparing summons and complaints, motion for order to show causes, motion for defaults, findings of facts, orders, declaration in support of motions, declaration of mailings, notice of appearances, affidavits, quit claim deeds, excise tax affidavits and supplemental affidavits
- Scheduling hearings, e-filing or overnighting pleadings to the Clerk of Superior Courts, efiling briefs, submitting ex-parte or working copies to Judge’s Office and ordering court transcripts
- Filing documents with the district and supreme court
- Calendaring hearings, deadlines and events, scheduling and coordinating appointments
- Having clients execute documents, notarizing documents
- Scanning and uploading documents into system{s}
- Communicating and recording documents with the recorders and treasurer’s office
- Retrieving and obtaining copies of recorded and court documents
- Scheduling service of process
- Retrieving declaration of services or postings
- Communicating with the Clerk of Courts, pulling dockets, updating clients, etc.
First Impressions Team Lead
New Life Church
03.2016 - Current
- Staff Lead Volunteer in charge of hospitality personnel for the church
- Collect tithes-offering, assisting with communion, greeting members and visitors, ushering, answering questions and inquiries and be ready to help pastoral needs as they arise for services on Sundays
- Attending frequent staff and volunteer meetings
- Providing assistance with our community service functions and events such as adopt-a-block, stop domestic violence and the Tim Tebow Foundation “Knight to Shine”
- Volunteering and providing assistant to the Maple Valley food bank and Union Gospel of Seattle.
Estate Planning /Probate Paralegal
Washington Elder Law a/k/a Isaacson Law Firm PLLC
10.2017 - 04.2019
- Communicating and working with client through the life changing process of estate planning
- Obtaining information and documentations from client in order to start process
- Preparing, creating and opening files
- Preparing, reviewing and drafting trust documents, wills, power of attorneys, health care power of attorneys and personal care plans
- Preparing motions, orders, declarations, notice of hearings
- Preparing probate documents for filing, creating templates for attorney to complete and fill in information for complaints
- Preparing summons, notice of appearances, affidavits, quit claim deeds, excise tax affidavits and supplemental affidavits
- Preparing and submitting client questionnaire forms
- Scanning documents and uploading documents
- Recording documents via the Simplifile system in Washington State
- Recording documents in Arizona, Idaho and California
- Filing appeals, scheduling hearings, e-filing pleadings, overnighting pleadings to the Clerk of Superior Courts and sending working copies to Judge’s Office and ordering court Transcripts
- Calendaring, scheduling and coordinating signing and family meetings with clients
- Having clients execute documents, notarizing documents
- Reviewing asset tables, making sure trust is funded
- Preparing trust binders, inserts and tabs
- Scheduling service with process servers
- Communicating with the treasurer’s office and recorder’s office to assure documents are recorded
- Communicating with the Clerk of Courts and pulling dockets.
Collection Paralegal
James L. Sctrichartz, Law Firm
06.2016 - 10.2017
- Communicating and working with client in obtaining information and documentations in order to start process
- Preparing and drafting documents such as notices, summons and complaints, motion, orders, writs of garnishments, first and second answers to garnishments, judgments, declarations, satisfactions, liens, release of liens, affidavits, agreements, stipulation for judgment agreements, stipulation of default letters
- Preparing ledgers, calculating interest and per diems for judgments
- Communicating daily with the clerk’s office, clients, agents/brokers, debtors, tenants, HOA agents/reps, managers or presidents
- Performing military searches, pacer searches, etc
- Calendaring and Scheduling hearings, ordering clerk checks, overnighting pleadings, documents and or packages to the Clerk and sending working copies to Judge’s Office
- Efiling, recording of documents
- Utilizing the clerk’s websites to review docket entries, paying court fees, researching for entry of documents, having pleadings served, transcribing messages, etc.
Eviction Paralegal
Weinstein & Riley, P.S.
04.2016 - 06.2016
- Preparing and drafting documents such as notices, summons and complaints, motion for order, Orders, writs of restitution, affidavits
- Communicating with the clerk’s office, sheriff’s office, agents/brokers, borrower’s, tenants
- Scheduling hearings, ordering clerk checks, overnighting pleading, documents and or packages to the Clerk and Judge’s Office
- Efiling, recording of documents
- Utilizing the clerk’s websites to review docket entries, paying court fees, researching for documents, etc.
Eviction Paralegal
McCalla Raymer, LLC
03.2013 - 11.2015
- Being able to deal in a multi-tasking environment
- Talking to clients (Banks), sheriffs, realtors, brokers, former owners, judges and the clerk’s office on a day to day basis
- Reviewing the clerk’s dockets to assure that the certificate of title and final judgments has been issued
- Reviewing pacers, leases and contracts in order to verify whether or not occupants are bona fide lease holders
- Preparing tenant letters and making sure that we are following PTFA guidelines in order to assure that we are not in violation with the law
- Having the capability to organize information while working in a fast pace environment, multi-tasking
- Speaking with sheriffs, realtors, brokers, former owners and the clerk’s office on a day to day basis
- Reviewing and understanding the clerk’s dockets to assure that proper Title and Judgments are issued
- Reviewing pacers, leases and sales contracts
- Preparing complaints, motions, orders, etc
- Scheduling hearings, ordering clerk checks, overnighting pleading, documents and or packages to the Clerk and Judge’s Office.
Education
Business Administration -
Miami Dade Community College
Miami, FL01.1992
High school diploma -
East Orange High School
East Orange, NJ01.1988
Skills
- Legal Research
- Clerical Assistance
- File Organization
Languages
English
Creole
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Paralegal / Assistant
Loeffler Law Group, PLLC
11.2019 - Current
Estate Planning /Probate Paralegal
Washington Elder Law a/k/a Isaacson Law Firm PLLC
10.2017 - 04.2019
Collection Paralegal
James L. Sctrichartz, Law Firm
06.2016 - 10.2017
Eviction Paralegal
Weinstein & Riley, P.S.
04.2016 - 06.2016
First Impressions Team Lead
New Life Church
03.2016 - Current
Eviction Paralegal
McCalla Raymer, LLC
03.2013 - 11.2015
Business Administration -
Miami Dade Community College
High school diploma -
East Orange High School