Overview
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Education
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Sophia Adawi

Sophia Adawi

Paralegal II
Fishers,IN

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Paralegal II

Marion County-Public Defender Agency
Indianapolis, IN
06.2022 - Current

Paralegal II

Marion county

  • Maintained ongoing communication with opposing parties from discovery to trial phase to facilitate litigation.
  • Prepared and reviewed legal briefs, discovery responses, pleadings, and motions documents.
  • Analyzed evidence gathering and presentation, client counseling for litigation.

Indiana State Police Trainee

Indiana State Police
Indianapolis, IN
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Secured crime scenes, gathered evidence and questioned witnesses.
  • Aided fellow officers with traffic stops, domestic disturbance calls and warrant execution activities.
  • Surveilled criminal suspects and assigned locations, documenting suspect behavioral patterns for inclusion in intelligence reports.

Forensic Linguistic Analysis

Innocence Project Institution-Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Performed data mining & linguistic analysis of large volume of un/structured data for civil/ criminal litigation purposes.
  • Analyzed evidence where language evidence is crucial to the defendant’s conviction.
  • Performed forensic analysis of written and spoken crime language provided in in forensic context.
  • Analyzed various criminal cases where the authenticity of a confession is challenged, an authorship of a document is questioned.
  • Developed report(s) of evaluated language data to present to seniors as well as lawyers on timely manner.

Prior Authorization Representative

Express Scripts Pharmacy
, IN
06.2016 - 08.2017
  • Contacted insurance companies to obtain prior authorization for medical procedures and medications
  • Handled challenging customers in professional manner and managed 90+ calls per day
  • Enter patient data regarding claims and prior authorizations into system accurately

Pharmacy Technician

ValuScript/ Proscript Pharmacy
Carmel, IN
11.2013 - 05.2016
  • Performed legal research, drafts and correspondences related to insurances, audits, and patients logs.
  • Assisted in the evaluation of legal matters related to insurance, billing, and medication delivery.
  • Tracked and organized files containing confidential documents.

Education

Master of Arts - Forensic Linguistics, computational linguistics

Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
09.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics & Translation

University of Sharjah (UOS)
07.2013

Skills

  • Critical Thinking
  • Linguistic Analysis
  • Word Processing
  • Passion to Learn and Grow
  • Teamwork Skills
  • Legal Research
  • Litigation Support

Timeline

Paralegal II

Marion County-Public Defender Agency
06.2022 - Current

Indiana State Police Trainee

Indiana State Police
06.2021 - 09.2021

Forensic Linguistic Analysis

Innocence Project Institution-Hofstra University
01.2018 - 01.2020

Prior Authorization Representative

Express Scripts Pharmacy
06.2016 - 08.2017

Pharmacy Technician

ValuScript/ Proscript Pharmacy
11.2013 - 05.2016

Master of Arts - Forensic Linguistics, computational linguistics

Hofstra University

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics & Translation

University of Sharjah (UOS)
Sophia AdawiParalegal II