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Work History
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COMMUNITY SERVICE & VOLUNTEER WORK
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Amanda DeShaies

Quicksburg

Summary

Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure long term position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Family Centered Treatment Clinician

Health Connect America
Harrisonburg, VA
03.2025 - Current
  • Facilitated collaborative goal-setting sessions with families to strengthen communication patterns, resulting in increased engagement and sustained treatment adherence.
  • Managed case files and all paperwork including inputting them into electronic file system.
  • Conducted initial client interviews to obtain essential information about their legal matters.
  • Serve as liaison between attorneys and clients, witnesses, and experts to schedule depositions, collect relevant information for trials and answer any questions
  • Reviewed discovery materials to identify relevant information for cases.
  • Maintained calendar of important deadlines related to cases and ensured timely filing of all required documents.
  • Drafted and revised legal documents, including briefs, pleadings, motions, complaints, subpoenas, witness lists, property settlement agreements, and contracts.
  • Prepared and organized trial exhibits for each case.
  • Met deadlines consistently when preparing and filing court pleadings.

Paralegal / Office Manager

Law Office of Bradley G. Pollack
01.2021 - 12.2025
  • Managed case files and all paperwork including inputting them into electronic file system.
  • Conducted initial client interviews to obtain essential information about their legal matters.
  • Serve as liaison between attorneys and clients, witnesses, and experts to schedule depositions, collect relevant information for trials and answer any questions
  • Reviewed discovery materials to identify relevant information for cases.
  • Maintained calendar of important deadlines related to cases and ensured timely filing of all required documents.
  • Drafted and revised legal documents, including briefs, pleadings, motions, complaints, subpoenas, witness lists, property settlement agreements, and contracts.
  • Prepared and organized trial exhibits for each case.
  • Met deadlines consistently when preparing and filing court pleadings.

Eligibility Department

Shenandoah Department of Social Services
06.2024 - 12.2024
  • Conduct intake interviews, renewal applications, and other forms with clients
  • Manage caseload of approximately one hundred and fifty recipients
  • Verify clients' identity, citizenship, school enrollment status and vaccination records
  • Connect clients with community resources for services the department is unable to provide such as used vehicle donation
  • Perform searches on various databases to collect and confirm information to process clients' case
  • Identify barriers to employment and income and develop a plan with clients to identify and reach goals

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology with a minor in Child & Adolescent Development

Southern New Hampshire University
01-2025

Associate of Science - Paralegal Studies

Everest University
01-2012

Skills

  • Compassionate
  • Office management
  • Courtroom etiquette
  • Positive attitude
  • Multicultural sensitivity
  • Goal oriented

Timeline

Family Centered Treatment Clinician

Health Connect America
03.2025 - Current

Eligibility Department

Shenandoah Department of Social Services
06.2024 - 12.2024

Paralegal / Office Manager

Law Office of Bradley G. Pollack
01.2021 - 12.2025

Associate of Science - Paralegal Studies

Everest University

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology with a minor in Child & Adolescent Development

Southern New Hampshire University

COMMUNITY SERVICE & VOLUNTEER WORK

Blue Ridge CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocate, Rockingham and Shenandoah County, 2021, 2023
Amanda DeShaies