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Full Name

• Heather Vandever (Young)

About Me

• I have been a Texas Notary Public since 1998. I worked in Austin, Texas for 24 years before moving to this small town (Waxahachie), just south of Dallas. I live with my husband and two dogs, who are my world! We enjoy gardening and traveling, and try to laugh as often as we can for exercise. I have vast legal experience in both civil and criminal law, but my favorite is civil and specifically, real estate. I miss my long-time clients and look forward to meeting repeat customers with whom I will build a working friendship, with trust as a foundation.

Telephone Number

• 512-944-5931

Available Hours

• Anytime

City and State

• Waxahachie, Texas

E-mail Address

• heather.laurelvan@gmail.com

Commission Number

• 1132757-5

Commission Expiration

• August 19, 2023

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• HEATHER VANDEVER
  WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS 75165 · (512) 944-5931 · heather.laurelvan@gmail.com

  EXPERIENCE:

  Paralegal, Bishop Law Firm; March 2021 to Present
  • Prepare legal defense files based on appointments from Ellis County District Attorney
  • Prepare legal defense files after negotiating fees for being retained by private individuals
  • Communicate with county jails to schedule meetings with clients
  • Prepare, review and edit litigation documentation
  • Request probable cause affidavits, charging instruments and discovery from prosecution
  • Communicate with clients to schedule court hearing appearances, appointments with attorneys, notifications of plea offers and negotiations of same
  • E-file all litigation documentation related to cases
  • Assist in trial preparation
  • Process payments
  • Keep calendar of all court dockets, client meetings and due dates
  • Correspond with clients and prosecutors
  • Tabulate pay sheets for submission to TechShare for appointed clients
  • Reconcile firm accounts
  • Arrange for Administrative Law Review Hearings including creation of subpoenas for hearings before SOAH Administrative Law Judges
  Felony Clerk, District Attorney’s Office, Ellis County, Texas; November, 2020 to March, 2021
  • Work with Assistant District Attorney’s in Felony Division to process incoming felony files consisting of Police Reports and Supplemental Reports, Victim Statements, Probable Cause Affidavits, Lab Reports, Arraignments, Bonds and Criminal Histories to begin building cases
  • Work with Assistant DA’s to prepare Grand Jury Indictments
  • Prepare files for all arraignment, pretrial, probation revocations and trial setting dockets
  Legal Assistant, Cox Law Firm; July 2019 to November 2020
  • Assist attorneys in representation and litigation of construction companies, independent contractors, real estate matters, estate planning, family law, entity formations, personal injury claims and parole review
  • Draft litigation documents and discovery requests and responses, schedule trial dates and all associated deadlines
  • Process account billing and AP/AR
  • E-file court documents and arrange for service of process

  Administrative Specialist, AMD; April 2016 to September 2017
  • Provide administrative support to Directors and their staff in Product and Platform Engineering Department
  • Book travel for engineers traveling to other AMD offices in the United States, Canada and Asia
  • Onboard new hires joining the company; Meet weekly with HR and hiring managers to discuss recruiting efforts for open positions
  • Work closely with IT Staff to implement onboarding of new hires and troubleshoot all PPE requests
  • Order supplies and any other hardware requested by engineers
  • Coordinate charity events on behalf of engineers in the PPE Department

  Legal Assistant, Willatt & Flickinger; August, 1998 to April, 2016
  • Assist attorneys in representation of utility districts, water companies, cities and homeowners associations throughout the State of Texas
  • Communicate with board members, consultants and developers regarding utility districts
  • Prepare agendas and agenda packages for monthly board meetings; attend board meetings and prepare minutes of meetings
  • Maintain district files for compliance with the State of Texas
  • Coordinate directors elections of municipal utility districts
  • Draft contract documents for utility districts
  • Assist bond attorney in preparation of bond documents for utility districts
  • Communicate with collections departments and managers of homeowners associations; prepare assessment collection letters and liens; oversee the recording of liens, releases, management certificates and updates to corporate documents such as declarations, bylaws and other various HOA policies
  • Prepare deed restriction violation demand notices
  • Prepare civil lawsuits for homeowners association matters
  • Assist in creation of new HOAs and other Non-Profit Corporations
  • Track and prepare monthly attorney and legal assistant billing and expenses for all clients
  • Library maintenance of all legal publications

  Legal Assistant, Wilson, Grosenheider & Jacobs; June, 2003 to November, 2003
  • Assist attorneys specializing in workers’ compensation and personal injury law
  • Schedule attorneys’ travel for attendance of benefit review conferences and hearings
  • Communicate with insurance companies
  • Track monthly billings for attorneys

  Administrative Assistant, North American Investigative Services; 1995 to August, 1998
  • Coordinate with private investigators conducting surveillance on workers’ compensation and personal injury cases
  • Schedule investigations and prepare reports for clients
  • Edit video surveillance

  CERTIFICATIONS:
  • Texas Notary Public since 1998

  SKILLS:
  • Highly attentive to detail
  • Excellent client communication skills
  • Proficient with Time Matters, TimeSlips, Microsoft Office Suite, Word Perfect, Jira, SharePoint and Citrix
  • Knowledge of Texas State Law Library for research
  • Type 75+ words per minute

  EDUCATION:
  • Blinn Community College, Brenham, Texas; 1993-1994
  Undergraduate Studies

Education

• Brenham High School Graduate of 1993.
  Blinn College, two semesters of general studies.
  I have background in insurance investigation, surveillance, video editing, skip tracing and managing investigators.
  I spent 18 years working and learning about real estate law; particularly environmental law – representing water districts, municipal utility districts, new building projects with water infrastructure; setting water rates for existing districts; conducting audits, negotiating contracts for city and municipal services; maintaining clients’ files per the Texas State Library’s Archives Retention Schedules; conducting municipal and local government elections in concert with the Travis and Williamson Counties Elections Divisions; Negotiating real estate rules, regulations, guidelines and homeowners’ associations’ creations via the Secretary of State, including drafting of all governing documents, management certificate updates, and working hand-in-hand with HOA management companies with a focus on deed restriction enforcement and assessment collection procedures. I also spent a good deal of time working with title companies to obtain abstractors’ certificates in efforts to resolve collection matters arising in liens, with a goal of avoiding foreclosures in every case possible to the satisfaction of both parties.

Counties or Cities/Zip codes

• Waxahachie, Ennis, Ferris, Red Oak, DeSoto, Lancaster, Hillsboro, Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth, McKinney, Plano, Temple, Georgetown. I work in the heart of Ellis County but will travel from Pflugerville to Plano and anywhere in between that I can be useful.

Gender

• Female