ABOUT
So you’ll know a bit more about Julie…
She was born in central Illinois, raised on a farm, and went to Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, for her undergraduate degree. She moved to Nashville after her first husband finished law school, and went to work for Farris, Warfield & Kanaday, where she worked for 3 years with a number of attorneys who practiced civil litigation, corporate law and tax law. During her last year at Farris, Warfield, she began working on her graduate degree in social work through the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which she received in 1987.
Over the years, Julie has been fortunate to have worked in a number of areas of the law including consumer bankruptcy, personal injury, eminent domain/condemnation, and civil litigation in general. She has also done collections work and estate work. She is adept at gathering the information for, and preparing, bankruptcy petitions and spreadsheets, reviewing medical and banking records, researching medical codes, drafting discovery requests and discovery responses, and drafting pleadings. She is very knowledgeable about, and has used the following, extensively: Best Case® Bankruptcy, PCLaw®, PACER, LexisNexis®, CaseLink (Davidson County courts), WordPerfect, Word and Microsoft Office, in general; and done hundreds of CM/ECF filings in State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts. She has worked on divorce cases, criminal cases, and multiple federal cases in several different states, and interviewed numerous folks who have suffered a personal injury .
She loves to hunt information, persons, places, or things down like a dog, whether referenced in documents, in court systems, or on the internet. She learns quickly. She’s very good with clients, even the ornery ones, and can schmooze things out of government workers in their various offices like nobody’s business… and never tells a lie doing it. She’s been a proofreader/editor since her college days when she worked for The Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois.
Additional skills: She takes confidentiality very seriously – in other words, she doesn’t blab about cases to others. She can’t remember a joke, but remembers phone numbers. Most importantly, she is very organized and detail-oriented. And now she knows how to edit a website.
Julie has always enjoyed legal work, and would enjoy the opportunity to work with you, whether it be for one hour, a day or a week. Her job – and her intention – is to make your life easier without the expense of having to hire a full-time paralegal with all of the costs that can entail. She has reasonable rates. Her fully-equipped home office has all of the accoutrements. She is not stuck to working in Nashville, but if she goes too far out of town, she may be talking to you about mileage. She’d love to have an opportunity to work with you.
NOTE: She works only under the supervision of an attorney.
Memberships
Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Paralegal Association