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Dawn Repchinski

Leduc,AB

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Paralegal

Witten LLP
03.2021 - 05.2025
  • Responsible for foreclosure files including drafting and filing all pleadings; Work files through to completion; Transfer of Title; Preparing and filing Writs of Execution with the Court and finalizing with PPR; Maintaining payment proposal plans; Requesting appraisals; Providing payout of all segments to real estate lawyer if property is sold before title transfer; Receipt of funds; Transfer funds to client; Bill and e-bill files; Judicially list properties; Transfer title; Prepare Bill of Costs; Prepare Affidavits of Property Manager; Central contact for mortgagors on files; Main contact for Property Managers; Constant contact with client; Responsible for limitation dates; Responsible for EFiling or and Email filing documents; Showed great empathy when mortgagors cried and tried to work with them towards a solution is one was to be had.

Legal Assistant

CBM Lawyers
04.2019 - 01.2021
  • Prepare and maintain defence litigation and subrogation files; Correspond with clients and counsel opposite; Draft, review and file pleadings; Set mediations and Questioning in Alberta and Discovery in British Columbia; Set IMEs; Setting Pre-Trial Conferences; Review and request undertakings/disclosure; Redactions; Create Affidavit of Records and trial binders; Mediation Briefs; Electronic discovery; Request information and endorsements; Suspend licenses with motor vehicles; Familiar with BC litigation law as well as working in Alberta for the majority of my career; Review files for completeness prior to closure; Expense claim forms for Counsel; Time and calendar management; Draft accounts.

Paralegal

Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
10.2018 - 01.2019
  • Prepare and maintain Minute Books and other legal documentation including but not limited to filing of corporate forms; Register and maintain business names; Prepare corporate documents and registration of same; Liaison between clients and counsel; Liaison between directors and counsel; Assist in researching; Assist general counsel; Expense claim forms for personnel and directors.

Administrative Assistant 4

Government of Alberta
03.2014 - 10.2018
  • Formatting and finalizing Briefing Notes and other information up to the Minister of Justice level; Finalize Section 32 information packages for distribution to Public Security, RCMP and Police Services; Maintenance of a very large and detail oriented file room; Usage of various Government only databases; Dealing with all eight Provincial Remand and Correctional Centres and extremely sensitive and confidential materials therein including Incident Reports, Boards of Inquiry, Fatality Inquiries, Management and Internal Reviews, FOIP and redactions; Dealing with the Executive Director at the immediate level and also with the Assistant Deputy Minister; Aiding the Assistant Deputy Directors and Directors with Paralegal aid; Completing files to transfer to legal counsel for legal matters; Teaching processes to Deputy/Directors; Time and Calendar management; Attending Directors’ Meetings; Taking Minutes.

Senior Paralegal/Office Manager

Tarrabain Law/Tarrabain & Company
04.2010 - 01.2014
  • Draft documents for plaintiff personal injury claims including all pleadings, requests, settlements, etc.; Legal research; Dictation; Review medical reports; Summarize medial injuries; Meet with clients; Interact with insurance adjusters and counsel; Civil claim/civil litigation files; Redactions; Scheduling of trials; Criminal files including the ordering of information, endorsements and enclosures; Liaise in criminal files with court and clients; Tribunals, Real estate; Filing documents with Land Titles and PPR; Logging of disbursements; Time and calendar management, Billing; Deposits to both trust and general accounts; Accounts payable and receivable.

Senior Paralegal/Summation and Law Support Advisor

Parlee McLaws/Davis LLP
04.2001 - 04.2010
  • Significant focus on Aboriginal and Constitutional Law; Key experience dealing in all areas of the courts from the Provincial Court, Criminal and Civil, Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court; Support lead on various major litigation files in the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal of Alberta; Responsible for document management pre-trial and post-trial, including redactions for files in excess of 100,000 documents; Liaison with numerous counsel on files as well as other support staff and clients; Interview clients; Aid in budget setting and verification; Finalization of Briefs, Authorities, Extracts of Key Evidence, etc.; Assuring service is effected including service on the Attorney Generals with in Ministers of Justice in all Provinces; Drafting of correspondence to counsel and clients; Integral in setting procedure in usage of Summation and LAW; Time and Calendar management; Time reporting and billing of accounts; Dictation.

Support Specialist Supervisor

Government of Alberta
04.2009 - 08.2009
  • Review and provide comments to Senior Counsel and Bodily Injury Specialists on legal pleadings filed by other parties in actions to which MVAC is a defendant or party intervenient; Review Consent Judgments and provide comment; Prepare settlement packages; Access GOA’s databases to obtain critical information to the resolution of cases; Assist MVAC’s Administrator in any way to ensure efficient and effective delivery of paralegal and administrative support.

Timeline

Paralegal

Witten LLP
03.2021 - 05.2025

Legal Assistant

CBM Lawyers
04.2019 - 01.2021

Paralegal

Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
10.2018 - 01.2019

Administrative Assistant 4

Government of Alberta
03.2014 - 10.2018

Senior Paralegal/Office Manager

Tarrabain Law/Tarrabain & Company
04.2010 - 01.2014

Support Specialist Supervisor

Government of Alberta
04.2009 - 08.2009

Senior Paralegal/Summation and Law Support Advisor

Parlee McLaws/Davis LLP
04.2001 - 04.2010

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