PARALEGAL SERVICES

While attending the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, I served as a legal intern for the Pennsylvania Department of Education Chief Counsel’s Office. As general counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, our office represented the school districts and individual schools in a wide variety of criminal cases and administrative hearings involving staff, students, teachers and administrators. The office also handled administrative proceedings to de-license teachers accused of criminal activities or acts of moral turpitude.

During that time, working directly with an assigned attorney, I wrote briefs, researched points of law, wrote final opinions for administrative judges and worked with witnesses. I also wrote two memoranda of record – one on the marital privilege and another on Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Laws, patterned after the federal Freedom of Information Act. In addition, I worked on requests for subpoena duces tecum, having to be mindful of the freedom of information regulations and privacy issues.

My current services in this area are as an editor for existing copy, with minimal research.