Emily McGinty

My name is Emily McGinty and I have 5 years of work experience as a paralegal as well as a post-baccalaureate certification from Capital University Law School Paralegal Studies program. I am a proud graduate of Columbus City Schools; I attended Columbus Alternative High School and graduated in 2009. I then obtained my Bachelor's degree from Otterbein University and I have been accepted to the Ohio University Master's in Public Administration program starting summer of 2021.

I am proficient in Microsoft programs, including Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook. I am also proficient in utilizing Adobe Pro for redactions, corrections, highlighting, rearranging and other features that Adobe Pro contains. I have experience in preparing pleadings, completing research, and working in multiple databases. I am a fast-learner and hard-worker and I can also learn on my own with training materials. I have worked in both the private and public sectors.

Education

Master's @ Ohio University

May 2021 — Current

I will be starting at Ohio University in May to obtain my Master's in Public Administration.

Certification @ Capital University Law School

Aug 2016 — Aug 2017

I earned Highest Honors from the paralegal studies program at Capital Law. My final GPA was 3.808.

Bachelor's @ Otterbein University

Aug 2009 — May 2013

I earned a bachelor's in political science with a minor in legal studies. My end GPA was a 3.45

Experience

Paralegal @ Ohio Board of Nursing

Mar 2020 — Feb 2021

I worked with applicants on their applications to become nurses. All applicants that I worked with were going through Compliance review for various record reasons. I would check applications for completeness, inform them of what was missing, as well as request court documentation. I would scan and upload records to the database.

Paralegal @ Frank & Wooldridge

Apr 2019 — Jan 2020

I worked as a collections paralegal at this firm. This included preparing pleadings for all Ohio municipal courts according to their different rules. This also included bank garnishments, wage garnishments, complaints. I would review files for information regarding payments, payoffs and other loan information.

Paralegal @ Manley Deas Kochalski

Aug 2016 — Apr 2019

I worked multiple positions at MDK. One of the positions I worked was helping to create a quality control team for the bankruptcy department. We would check all the work on the pleadings going through to make sure the best product was brought before the attorneys.

I eventually moved to the attorney assistant team as a paralegal for an Illinois attorney. We would work together to determine the schedule of hearings, what pleadings needed to be completed, I helped the attorney with special documents for hearings and litigation issues. I would also obtain local counsel for hearings that my attorney would not be able to attend due to being in court elsewhere. In addition to this role I would file notices of final cure for all of our states,

Data Entry Clerk @ The Wasserstrom Company

Nov 2014 — Aug 2016

I started out as the front door receptionist. I would answer phones, greet people, relay that vendors were at the office for their meetings with various people. I would also do clerical tasks that were able to be completed between answering phones.

My second position was as a data entry clerk for all of the sales department. I would enter in contracts using the system that were agreed upon by the sales representative and the client. I would also use Excel to complete what were called rollouts, so if a company was having a new product rollout they would require specific equipment for these items. I would have Excel spreadsheets that I would upload into the system to create the orders for the different restaurants.

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