Peter Kirchikov

About Peter Kirchikov

Education: National Center For Paralegal Training, Atlanta, GA; ABA-approved Paralegal Training Program-

Experience

1. Full-time Paralegal

   Law Firm

   Aug 2002 — Present · Birmingham, AL, US

   Full-time Paralegal with a law firm, 2002- Currently;Experienced multilingual interpreter, translator, linguist, lexicographer, editor, published writer, instructor, certified and accredited immigration court interpreter, Linguistic Quality Assurance Editor with multinational corporation; Paralegal Training Certificate from ABA-accredited school.10/1991- 09/1992- Fellow, Russian & Soviet-era history, the University of Alabama in Birmingham, making presentations, lecturing, teaching classes to the business, professional and social groups, writing articles, research projects, community outreach, chair of the panel on Ukrainian history at Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute.10/1991-05/2003-Taught E.S.L, English as a Second Language classes at UAB Special Studies, Birmingham, Alabama, training international students from different countries of the world.Author of a book of memories of growing up in Communist Russia.Currently: working on a Law Dictionary of Modern Legal Terms, Expressions, Phrases, Abbreviations, Acronyms.Compiled a dictionary of the local Slavic dialect in South Ukraine.As a published writer wrote articles and essays about history, cultures, society, customs, traditions, celebrations in the former USSR and other countries. My works were published in the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, etc.Currently working on Encyclopedic Dictionary of the World War Two history, operations, leaders, core terms, topics.Currently: regular law contributing lexicographer to Black’s Law Dictionary, the major U.S. legal authority used in the legal community worldwide and cited in the courts of all levels.Wrote a book of one-liners and witticisms.

Education

• Izmail State Teachers’ College

  Bachelor Degree

  1970 — 1974

Skills

• Corporate Law
• Leadership
• Social Media
• Proofreading
• Teaching
• Litigation Support
• Writing
• Publishing
• Literature
• Courts
• Russian
• Immigration Law
• International Relations
• Multilingual
• German
• Translation
• Legal Research
• French
• Politics
• Books
• Linguistics
• Foreign Languages
• Social Networking
• Training
• Community Outreach
• Public Speaking
• English
• Public Relations
• Spanish
• Legal Writing
• Editing
• Legal Translation
• Research