Angela’s qualifications

Experience

ACCORD ALASKA, LLC | Anchorage, AK

Certified Mediator/Paralegal, May 2014 – December 2024

• Conduct interviews with disputants, witnesses, and any additional relevant groups or individuals.

• Use mediation techniques to facilitate communication between disputants, further parties' understanding of different perspectives, and guide parties toward mutual agreement.

• Assist with dispute resolutions using effective problem-solving and by guiding mutual understanding of opposing views.

• Draft settlement paperwork and gathered signatures from disputants to document agreed-upon solutions.

• Design training courses to assist participants in understanding the mediation process better and to get better outcomes.

• 2014-2019 and briefly in 2022 and 2023 applied for and was awarded an Alaska Court contract to facilitate divorce, custody, and child in need of aid (CINA) mediation sessions.

• Provide data collection to courts for grants by submitting demographic and outcome reports.

• Certified Mediator, Florida Supreme Court – Circuit and County Courts. (2021-current)

• CONTRACT WORK: writing and discovery work for Kara Nyquist Esq (family law), Chris Provost Esq (adoptions, juvenile representation), and others; billing work for attorneys, cleaning up data management systems, discovery preparation for major trials, cleaning up old personal injury client accounts to get them ready for preservation or settlement, perfecting appeals, dispositive motion drafting.

Remote Teaching Assistant at the University of Oregon School of Law (Eugene) January 2022- March 2022

Managing Organizational Conflict - Professor Clare Fowler

• Assist with editing a new manual related to workplace conflict.

• Assist a professor with organizational conflict training and answer student questions.

• Participate in role plays and other training activities.

• Survey class and finalize quantitative research paper on the effects of online learning for graduate students.

PARVIN LAW | Wasilla, AK 

Civil Litigation Paralegal, August 2014 - May 2019

•       Prepare and maintain Court calendars, motion dates, trials, and compliance. 

•       Reviewed, analyzed, and sorted all discovery requests and responses. 

•       Prepared summons and complaints regarding numerous cases.

•       Analyzed elements of civil litigation, including evidence gathering and presentation and client counseling, in addition to evaluating jury selection methods 

•       Oversaw detailed client intakes and entered information into the company database.

•       Managed billable hour tracking, payroll, client invoicing, and attorney billing.

•       Communicated pertinent information to clients via phone, email, and letter.

•       Researched state statutes, decisions, legal articles, codes, and documents

•       Prepared drafts of legal briefs, motions, and pleadings.

FRONTIER LAW GROUP | Anchorage, AK (Owner passed away August 2014)

Litigation Paralegal - Office Administrator, August 2010 - August 2014

•       Conducted research to include assisting with focus groups (finding participants, screening, coordinating meeting space, scripting, facilitating focus group)

•       Reviewed and analyzed medical reports and hospital records.

•       Drafted various types of pleadings and briefs for numerous litigations.

•       Implementation system and maintenance of client data and case file management • Managed staff of 5 attorneys and 3 administrative personnel

•       Created Employee handbook.

•       Organized master calendar of appointments, operational targets, and docket

•       Oversaw and trained clerical support staff to accomplish challenging objectives.

Targeted growth through branding, providing excellent service, and employee retention

LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT D. WAGMAN, PC ~ Rockville, MD

Business Law Paralegal July 2008- August 2010

• Research using LexisNexis and PACER

• Handle subrogation claims for a national insurance company.

• Strong skills using JST/CollectMax, Microsoft Office XP and WordPerfect 9

• Prepare legal documents such as motions, complaints, etc. for Maryland and Washington DC cases.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy – Conflict Analysis

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

December 2025

Master of Science – Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, Omaha, Nebraska

January 2016

Bachelor of Science – Legal Studies

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Adelphi, Maryland

January 2010

VOLUNTEERISM

2012 to 2015 CASA- Court Appointed Special Advocate - Anchorage Alaska 

2014 to 2019 Small Claims and Landlord Tenant Mediator – Anchorage District Court

2015 to 2019 Founding Member/Secretary of the Professional Mediators of Alaska – Board of Directors

2015, 2017 Mock Trial Judge – Anchorage Bar Association – Young Lawyers Association

2022 to 2023 Member of Nova Southeastern University Africa Working Group

2022 Nova Southeastern University Residential Institute for Africa WG- Roundtable Discussion Presentation on Critical Race Theory

2022 to 2023 Pro Bono paralegal work focused on assisting BIPOC custody cases and landlord/tenant matters.