Andrea D.

Jones
12603 S. Winchester, 3E
Calumet Park, Illinois 60827
708-389-4749 Home
708-925-2294 Cell ● jones0582@att.net
ABA APPROVED PARALEGAL

Skilled office professional with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, Highly organized and detail
oriented: efficiently manages time and projects with close attention to deadlines. Effective in stressful situations and
able to successfully work with diverse populations. Persuasive and tenacious.

EXPERIENCE

● Drafting legal documents, affidavits, and preparing orders.

● Conducting independent interviews and investigations without supervision.
● Serving as liaison between attorneys, investigators, court clerks, and judges.
● Researching case law using the library, Internet, Westlaw and Lexis Nexis.
● Proofreading for accuracy and consistency.
● Opening and maintaining case files.
● Proficient in Microsoft Office and various other software programs and scheduling applications.

FORMAL TRAINING AND COURSEWORK IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW

Civil Litigation Drafting of pleadings, preparation of motions, discovery
and pretrial data certificates, and trial notebooks.
Ethics Client confidences, conflicts of interest, unauthorized
practice of law.
Contracts Offers, acceptance, consideration, illegal contracts, third-
party contracts, contractual capacity, remedies, Uniform
Commercial Code, discharge of obligations, provision.
Research Statutes, digest, case law, citators, encyclopedias,
dictionaries, online databases.
Torts Negligence, intentional torts, strict liability, personal injury
litigation, settlements.
Criminal Law Statutory and common law, criminal theory and
interpretation of statues.
Public Law Business and economics regulation and ethical
considerations.

EDUCATION

Northwestern College, Bridgeview, Illinois, November 2007

Associate in Applied Science Degree in Paralegal Studies, ABA Approved Program

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

● Leadership Training
● Administrative Plan, Policies, Procedures and Programs
● Interviewing and Interrogation (Reid Technique)
● Conflict Management

WORK HISTORY

NORC at the University of Chicago, Telephone Interviewer, Chicago, Illinois 2009/present.

U.S. Customs Service, Chicago, Illinois, Customs Aide, 1994/2001.
Chicago Board of Options Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, Trade Data Input Clerk, 1993-1994.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, Illinois, Correctional Officer/Secretary, 1989/1992.
Schaffennegger, Watson, & Peterson, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, Legal Secretary/Paralegal, 1987/1989.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.