Penelope Williams
Senior Policy Analyst
New York,New York
Summary
Experienced professional with solid background in providing expert guidance and solutions. Known for reliability and adaptability in dynamic environments. Exceptional at fostering teamwork and driving successful outcomes.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Legal and Policy Clerk
Michigan House of Representatives
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Drafted letters to constituents.
- Wrote, edited, and drafted summary briefs.
- Researched barrios issues for the chief staffer.
- Attended court and legislative committee meetings and hearings.
- Managed database used for tracking bulls and communicated status of database to staff on a weekly basis.
- Assisted the Legislative group in preparing, testifying, researching, and tracking medical marijuana proposed legislation.
Wills and Trust Senior Clerk
Sixty Plus, Inc. - Elderlaw
04.2011 - 12.2015
- Wrote, drafted, and prepared documents including wills, pleadings, guardianship applications and power of attorney requests.
- Completed research to locate heirs of decedents.
- Data entry – set up orders in case management system.
- Runed skip traces and department of motor vehicle searches.
- Request surrogate searches.
Subject Matter Expert, Contractor for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Regulatory Drafting and Policy Support Division
Bennet Aerospace, Inc.
10.2023 - 08.2025
- Drafts regulations, letters and legal memorandums for multiple concurrent projects
- Attend briefings regarding diversion initiatives
- Assists Unit chief with subject matter expertise on given area of research
- Supports Unit section chief with investigation, research and drafting of multiple legal documents
- Attend continuous training on drafting, regulation changes, plain writing and any administration mandatory continuing education courses
- Perform duties and drafting of a senior subject matter expert on the area of legal research assigned, attending webinars and meetings with other departments within the diversion regulatory sections of the Administration.
- Develops writing initiatives for chain of command review and approval regarding new and old regulations regarding changes or additions to the CFR regulatory updates as well as the FR.
Head of Research
MSW Legal Consulting Research
12.2022 - 01.2023
- The Head of legal and market intelligence provides guidance, feedback and business strategy development techniques to IP attorneys and their law firms.
- Revise, edit and/or draft research submission(s) for legal services directories.
- Assists clients with business development opportunities, betterment at executing successful market intelligence plans.
- Offers consulting services such as CRM, Market Intelligence, Submissions, Interviews and Rankings.
- Drives strategy direction of client business and market intelligence.
- Provided advice to clients, including guidance for content development.
- Ensured all written materials are clear, engaging and aligned with the requirements for questionnaires and/or submission guidelines of the top legal services directories.
US Head of Research
Law Business Research
02.2022 - 12.2022
- Worked in close collaboration with the global head of research crafting, and guiding strategy objectives for the Americas target market.
- Researched, wrote, and edited content for a broad range of communications including internal memorandums, video and podcast scripts, presentations, newsletters, award nominations, thought leadership pieces, clients’ published biographies, firms’ yearly highlights and landmark cases.
- Assisted the company’s assigned vertical with the multimedia production by writing video and podcast scripts for thought leader’s U.S projects.
- Provided high level reporting, writing, and editing for internal and external communications.
- Lead North America Research Analyst team.
- Developed and follow-up on training for research U.S specialists, including initial skills assessment and on-boarding processes.
- Maintained awareness of current legal and business research materials, techniques, strategies, and resources.
- Ad hoc market intelligence projects regarding CRM and client lead retention.
Senior Assistant Editor
Euromoney
11.2019 - 02.2022
- Senior Research Analyst – Editor Track for IFLR1000 US, Caribbean and select South American Jurisdictions
- Senior Research Assistant Editor for IP Stars
- Latin America Region, Senior Directive Research Analyst for ITR- Latin America and Caribbean regions.
- Performed research and interviews for the legal and professional services markets.
- Responsible for the Americas Region-WTR, IP Stars and IFLR100 U.S
- Analyzed research submission and market feedback.
- Compiled firm and practitioner rankings, analysis, and data for research projects.
- Represented the brand at global events and meetings.
Senior Legal Writer
Legal Services Immigration Justice Campaign
03.2018 - 08.2018
- Assigned to motion drafting, editing, and writing.
- Provided support and legal assistant for Immigration Bond hearings, Merit hearings and Unaccompanied minor cases.
- Assisted in asylum applications, drafting appeals and support with follow up procedures.
- Interpreted and (written)translated legal documents (Spanish)
- Responsible for initial Client intake- interview
Legal Elderlaw Immigration Senior Clerk
Care.Giver.Care - New York, NY
06.2017 - 06.2018
- Revised preliminary documents for wills preparation.
- Wrote legal translation (Spanish)
- Assisted clients with drafting legal documents.
- Referred clients to legal resources and immigration non-profit agencies.
- Aided customers in matters involving debt collection and consumer fraud.
Refugee and Immigration Clerk
Friends of Refugees - Melbourne VIC
02.2016 - 06.2017
- Assisted in diverse refugee volunteering projects, from translation, visitation(s) in collaboration with several other International non-profit organizations.
- Drafted pertinent documents for relocation and housing budget assistance.
Education
J.D. - Law
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Lansing, MI08-2015
Skills
- Training and mentoring
- Strong analytical skills
- Customer focus
- Creative solutions
- Strategic thinking
- Innovative mindset
- Deep expertise
- Time management
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Team building
- Multitasking Abilities
- Attention to detail
- Written communication
- Multitasking
- Excellent communication
- Process improvement
- Organizational skills
- Task prioritization
- Audit reporting
- Analytical thinking
- Active listening
- Issue research
- Data analysis
- Decision-making
- Process analysis
- Problem-solving
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal communication
- Team leadership
- Team collaboration
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Type
Full TimeContract WorkLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Career advancement401k matchStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingHealthcare benefitsCompany CulturePersonal development programsWork-life balanceQuote
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Tony Robbins
Interests
Sports
Outdoors
Traveling
Poetry
Art
Coooking
Timeline
Subject Matter Expert, Contractor for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Regulatory Drafting and Policy Support Division
Bennet Aerospace, Inc.
10.2023 - 08.2025
Head of Research
MSW Legal Consulting Research
12.2022 - 01.2023
US Head of Research
Law Business Research
02.2022 - 12.2022
Senior Assistant Editor
Euromoney
11.2019 - 02.2022
Senior Legal Writer
Legal Services Immigration Justice Campaign
03.2018 - 08.2018
Legal Elderlaw Immigration Senior Clerk
Care.Giver.Care - New York, NY
06.2017 - 06.2018
Refugee and Immigration Clerk
Friends of Refugees - Melbourne VIC
02.2016 - 06.2017
Legal and Policy Clerk
Michigan House of Representatives
01.2015 - 12.2015
Wills and Trust Senior Clerk
Sixty Plus, Inc. - Elderlaw
04.2011 - 12.2015
J.D. - Law
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
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