Andrea Wise

Assisted three attorneys in real estate, probate, and business law, preparing, revising, filing, and providing service for electronic pleadings. Maintained an average of 40-60 weekly client billable hours. Proficiently utilized Rocketmatter case management software.

Responsible for answering emails, calls, contacting, and scheduling meetings with clients, vendors, investigators, witnesses, and opposing counsel. Received a merit raise after three months of employment. Managed communication and scheduling for criminal and domestic relations cases.

Worked under Alternative Defense Counsel (ADC), Office of Federal Defense (CJA), and private attorneys to organize eDiscovery into electronic binders for hearings and negotiations. Listened, summarized, and transcribed 911 calls, wiretap taps, jail conversations, and police radio traffic. Met, reviewed, and discussed prosecution’s evidence with attorneys.

Managed day-to-day office operations, calendaring court dates, conference calls, and appointments, while reviewing dockets and maintaining attorney schedules. Filed motions and pleadings in the Colorado E-filing system and PACER. Organized discovery documents, drafted motions, completed legal research using Westlaw, and created electronic and physical trial notebooks. Assisted in felony and misdem

Communicated with the public regarding judicial procedures, trial dates, court appearances, outstanding warrants, bonds, summonses, and subpoenas. Accepted court filings from parties, opening and creating new cases including juvenile, adoption, divorce, custody, protection order, civil, expungement, and sealing of criminal records. Proficient with sworn financial, separation agreement, parenting p

Answered public inquiries, explaining legal filing processes, procedures, fees, fines, and information related to court operations and guidelines, providing referrals to legal assistance and other support services. Accepted filing fees, cash bail, fines, and account payments, processing mail payments and maintaining records of collected amounts. Issued writs, warrants, and other official court doc

Answered client calls and emails about products and search/order results, providing results via fax, upload, email, and mail. Prepared and filed Uniform Commercial Code forms in various states and smaller jurisdictions. Searched internal and external databases for state tax liens, federal tax liens, fixture liens, judgments, real property, owner and encumbrance, local and federal litigation, as we

Obtained an ABA Paralegal Certificate from Capital University Law School. This certification provided specialized training in legal procedures and practices.

Completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a Pre-Law focus and a minor in History. This program provided a strong foundation in legal and historical studies.

Earned an Associate of Arts degree from Columbus State Community College. This foundational degree provided broad academic exposure.