Experience

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  Honest Medical Group

  • Lansing, Michigan, United States

  • Corporate Paralegal

    • Dec 2022 - Present
    • Lansing, Michigan, United States

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  Sparrow Health System

  • Lansing, MI

  • Senior Corporate Paralegal

    • Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
    • Lansing, MI

    Work on all aspects of healthcare contracts; healthcare acquisitions including organization, review and management of due diligence; formation, merger, and dissolution of profit and nonprofit entities; corporate governance; intellectual property; and bond transactions. Maintain contract database for health system contracts. Work closely with outside counsel and internal clients, including senior management, to provide exceptional service. Sample Representative Matters:• Instrumental in establishing, implementing, and maintaining the use of electronic databases for use by clients in all levels of transactions.• Assisted with acquisitions of various physician practices by health system including drafting documents, organizing and review due diligence, and organization of closings.• Instrumental in transition of Legal Department to paperless based office.

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  National Association of Legal Assistants

  • Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • NALA Past President and Chairperson of Advanced Certified Paralegal Board

    • Jul 2000 - Jan 2018
    • Tulsa, Oklahoma

    I truly believe in the power of networking and mentoring with those within my chosen career. I have been on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Legal Assistants ("NALA"​) since 2000 holding a variety of positions include President. I continue to support NALA and paralegals nationwide through service on NALA's Advanced Certified Paralegal Board as its current Chairperson. Most recently, I was a speaker at NALA's national annual conference for paralegals speaking on the topics of legal ethics, corporate and commercial law, legal essay writing, and contracts.I am an avid believer in the power of continuing education for professionals and I enjoy the many opportunities I have had to speak to national audiences on such topics as Basic Business Organizations, Contracts, Legal Ethics, Judgment and Analytical Ability, Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, Certification for Paralegals, Benefits of Belonging to Professional Organizations, Time Management and Organizational Tips, and Parliamentarian Procedure.

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  Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC

  • Lansing and Grand Rapids, MI

  • Corporate Paralegal

    • Jan 1993 - Jul 2016
    • Lansing and Grand Rapids, MI

    I worked in the Business/Corporate practice area and specialized in all areas corporate; including but not limited to entity formation/dissolution, mergers & acquisitions, tax exempt organizations, insurance regulation, and intellectual property.Sample Representative Matters:• Worked closely with a client to purchase a majority interests in various insurance agencies throughout the US. The agencies were consolidated into one large agency and now this client is in the top 100 insurance agencies in the US.• Assisted with a project to sell a local mid-Michigan insurance company to a large national insurance company.• Assisted with purchase of large local cardiologist practice by local hospital.• Instrumental in establishing, implementing, and maintaining the use of electronic databases for use by clients in all levels of transactions.• Assisted on a large asset purchase transaction whereby a hospital purchased two additional hospitals.