My Bio: Latrese Hardy
My name is Latrese Hardy and I virtually assist legal professionals and entrepreneurs with administrative assistance and client support.

I have an educational background in Paralegal Studies and extensive customer service skills and experience. I have a diverse skill set: administrative assisting, debt collection, legal assistance, data entry, and hospitality.

I am dedicated to providing exceptional assistance to business owners by providing a wide range of services including social media management, calendar, and email management, travel arrangements, data entry, CRM management, graphic content creation, document drafting, editing, skip tracing and many other administrative and management tasks that may seem tedious to busy entrepreneurs.

Educational Background: Latrese Hardy
Major: Paralegal Studies
Expected graduation date: 04/23/2023

Resume & CV: Latrese Hardy
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Resume & CV: Latrese Hardy
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Goals (Personal & Professional): Latrese Hardy
I am focused on providing administrative assistance to solo law firm owners and small business owners. 

I want to network and build my email and contact list with more legal service providers. I want to become an international paralegal that assists attorneys in Canada and the US. 

Projects: Latrese Hardy

Program/Institutional Outcomes:

Utilize appropriate current technology and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to accomplish a goal, and then communicate findings in visual, written and/or oral formats.

Transfer knowledge, skills and behaviors acquired through formal and informal learning and life experiences to new situations.

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Projects: Latrese Hardy
Program/Institutional Outcomes: Employ strategies for reflection on learning and practice in order to adjust learning processes for continual improvement.

The objective of this project was to assist an attorney with the client intake, research, and court filings in a personal injury/wrongful death case. PLEG220 - Portfolio Project (.pdf) 0.40mb

Projects: Latrese Hardy
Program/Institutional Outcomes: During this project, I was to assist a client in a civil claim of trademark infringement. Throughout this project, I used Lexis Advanced and other scholarly resources to locate primary and secondary sources of law that related to defenses to trademark infringement. 230424055632_Pleg135_Portfolio_Project.docx (.docx) 0.03mb

Projects: Latrese Hardy
Program/Institutional Outcomes: Design and compose legal documents, including but not limited to correspondence, pleadings, briefs, and memoranda, that are relevant to different substantive areas of law.

Scenario: During this project, I was assigned tasks that assisted our client, who was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. There were four separate parts of this project including a memo to the managing partner, demand for discovery, a motion to dismiss, and a reflection essay. Criminal Law and Procedures Project (.pdf) 0.25mb

Projects: Latrese Hardy
Program/Institutional Outcomes: Distinguish appropriate legal terminology and utilize terms correctly in legal documents.

The objective of this project was to draft a contract of employment.

Scenario: During this project, I was assigned tasks and provided information and terms for an employment contract between her and a potential employee. PLEG110 Portfolio Project - Client Letter (.docx) 0.01mb

Projects: Latrese Hardy

Program/institutional outcomes: 

Describe and discuss the basic responsibilities, legal and procedural theories, and limitations of a paralegal.

Define, apply, and defend principles of legal ethics within a variety of settings.

 

Scenario: Personal injury case
During this project, I was assigned tasks to assist our client, the plaintiff of a personal injury case from intake through court filings. 

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