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Summary of qualifications |
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Experience |
1997
- Current |
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Cindy
Madden -
Paralegal
Services
to Attorneys,
Pacifica,
CA Paralegal and Owner: Prepare fiduciary accountings, conservatorship accountings, and probate accountings, prepare estate tax returns and gift tax returns, prepare asset allocations and trustee minutes. Draft trusts, wills, amendments, notices, asset transfer and funding documents, deeds and assessor forms (PCORS). Research, write, prepare and file pleadings with California probate courts, prepare Judicial Council Forms, and work with court research attorneys to perfect filings. Use software related to the practice of planning, tax and post death administration such as GEMS, FAST TAX, EPS for Windows, FATE, FET, Hot Docs, Legal Solutions, CAPS, CEB ONLAW, Thomson Estate and Gift Tax Treatises, EVP Valuation Software, and most billing programs. |
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Paralegal
services
engaged
with the
following
law firms: |
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2009 -
Krashna Law
Firm, Oakland,
Managed probate
administration
and prepared
accounting,
Alameda County
probate venue.
Assisted Omar
Krashna. |
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2009 -
LawOffices
of Walter Angus
MacDonald,
Jr, San Jose,
Prepared five
year/five trust
fiduciary accounting
for trustee
to beneficiaries,
including charities;
drafted probate
pleadings for
San Diego County
probate venue;
prepared conservatorship
and elder abuse
pleadings for
San Mateo County
probate venue.
Assisted Walter
A. MacDonald. |
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2008 - Freeland
Cooper & Foreman
LLP, San Francisco,
Prepared trust
funding, post-death
administration
pleadings,
asset allocations,
probate filings
and conservatorship
accountings.
Assisted Partner
Kate Freeland. |
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2007-2008 - Heller
Ehrman LLP,
San Francisco, |
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2004-2007– Folger
Levin & Kahn
LLP, San Francisco, |
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2002-2004– Hopkins & Carley,
San Jose, |
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1998-2002– Quillinan & Luce
LLP, Mountain
View, Prepared
probate, trust,
conservatorship
accountings
and pleadings
for Santa Clara
and San Mateo
County probate
venues; asset
allocations
and estate
tax returns
for tri-state
trust administration.
Assisted Partners
James V. Quillinan
and James G.
Luce. |
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1995-97– Bruce
B. Roberts,
Inc., Menlo
Park, CA |
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1992-95 – Galligan & Biscay,
APC, San Mateo,
CA |
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1994-95 Justice
Robert F. Kane
Judicial Services,
San Mateo,
CA |
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1991– Cotchett,
Illston & Pitre,
Burlingame,
CA |
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1984-90– Madden
Works, Pacifica,
CA |
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1983-84– Hession,
Creedon, et
al., San Mateo,
CA |
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1982-1983– San
Mateo County
Family Support
Dept., Redwood
City, CA |
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1980-82 – Coast
Side Opportunity
Center, Half
Moon Bay, CA |
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Education
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Attend CLE
in Trusts & Estates
regularly. |
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Professional Memberships |
Silicon
Valley Bar
Association
(SVBA); Paralegal
Association
of Santa Clara
County (PASCCO);
San Francisco
Paralegal Association
(SFPA); California
Alliance of
Paralegal Associations
(CAPA); National
Association
of Legal Assistants
(NALA); National
Federation
of Paralegal
Associations
(NFPA). |
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