Christine Bazzinotti

About Christine Bazzinotti

Results-oriented senior paralegal with over 11 years of experience. Looking to use…

Experience

1. Senior Paralegal

   Mintz

   Feb 2011 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Advise corporate clients on how to remain in legal compliance at the federal level. Conduct legal research and analyze information to develop legal case strategy, thus resolving potential issues, as necessary. Produce reports designed to document legal case activities and provide guidance on foreign national employee hiring and retention/work authorization extension practices. Key accomplishments:1) Advise clients on new-hire processing, including documentation to complete Form I-9 as well as how foreign national employees can obtain a Social Security Number and a driver’s license;2) Make recommendations on changes to home office relocation policies impacting foreign national employees;3) Educated 10 clients on compliance issues, new immigration trends, requirements and procedures per visa type, and federal regulations, to help companies effectively administer HR processes;4) Manage over 100 cases concurrently with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment to meet deliverables;5) Manage high volume docket review and visa expiration dates to ensure business clients’ work authorization compliance;6) Built and managed corporate client relationships: grew one client’s casework from approx. 22 cases per year to over 90 cases per year, generating over in monthly revenue;7) Increase departmental revenue by helping to acquire eight new mid-size client accounts;8) Interview paralegal candidates, five of which have been hired;9) Mentor and trained over six junior paralegals on case preparation and strategy using extensive knowledge of case matters;10) Served in a critical position on the team responsible for customizing and testing new case management system and migrating data from the legacy database;11) Developed and coded Word Integrator case templates, which reduced legal and grammatical errors; and,12) Reduced human errors by developing initial six intake and quality control checklists per case type.