June 2010 Spotlight
SouthCarolina
Several paralegal associations in South Carolina recently installed officers for 2010-2011.
Legal Staff Professionals of South Carolina’s new state officers are: Jamie Early, president; Tara Jean Prevatte, president-elect; Frances Powell, secretary; Stephanie Saporita, treasurer; Kerry Waldrop, functional director of membership; Robin Deming, functional director of education; Jan Berger, functional director of marketing; Lois Belle, functional director of certification and Stacy Burke, immediate past president/parliamentarian.
The Spartanburg County Legal Staff Professionals’ new leadership will be: Robin Deming, president; Sarah Wallace, president-elect; Theresa Douglass, secretary; Nancy Lemmons, treasurer; Rhonda Mitchell, functional director of membership and Kerry Waldrop, chapter liaison.
New officers for Legal Staff Professionals of Greenville include Tara Prevatte, president; Mary Beth Morgan, president-elect; Laura Harling, vice president; Margaret Hampe Campbell, secretary and Patti Bacon, treasurer.
Hilton Head Island paralegal Meredith Lazarski has received her Advanced Certified Paralegal designation from the National Association of Legal Assistants. Lazarski is a paralegal with Hale & Bolchoz and is also a member of the National Association for Legal Secretaries. She is also member and officer in the Hilton Head Legal Staff Professionals.
The S.C. Upstate Paralegal Association recently raised $2,340 to donate to the March of Dimes’ “March for Babies” campaign. The association exceeded its goal of $1,500 and also sponsored a comfort station to hand out water and candy to participants in the annual walk/run. Participants in the event included both members and friends. They were: Dorothy Huskey, team captain; Marianna Jackson, co-captain; Barbara Adkins, Daysha Bonner, Jennifer Greene, Karen Hall, Whitney Horn, Gail Inzero, Phyllis Mitchell, Lee Owens, Laura Page, Diane Petrice, Travis Ray, Logan Ray, Liz Scharf, Colleen Stevens, Wendy MacDonald and George Huskey. Gallagher Court Reporting, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Jackson Lewis & Legal Eagle also helped support the event with SCUPA.
NorthCarolina
Janice D. Linker received the 2010 Paralegal Award from the Metrolina Paralegal Association in May. The award is given to a paralegal who exhibits a commitment to professionalism and to the advancement of the legal community.
Linker has been a senior paralegal at Johnson, Allison & Hord in Charlotte for 37 years. In addition to her professional work, Linker has served several leadership roles in MPA including third vice president, NALA liaison and historian.
Other nominees for the award included Micah DeCamp, Rosa M. Goss, Tiffany Marx Butcher, Laura Peres and Stephanie Elliott-Park.
MPA also installed its officers for 2010-2011 in May. They are Antoine Robinson, president; Penny Higdon, first vice president; Michelle Kass, second vice president; Tiffany Marx Butcher, third vice president; Susan Randolph, secretary; Roxanne Crouch, treasurer and Candace Russell, NALA liaison.
The N.C. State Bar Board of Paralegal Certification honored the members of its paralegal certification committee at its board meeting in May. Committee members Lisa Duncan, Virginia Burrows, Susan McIntyre, Leslie McKesson, Theresa Irvin, Cheryl Waltz Smith and Mary Willard each received a certificate in recognition of their creation of 800 test questions for the paralegal certification exam.
The board also certified 99 paralegals that passed the certification exam at the meeting.
Candace Russell, a paralegal with Nexsen Pruet in Charlotte, has been selected by NALA to be a member of the LEAP Class of 2011. LEAP is a yearlong leadership development program that teaches participants leadership skills beyond what they may have acquired through local associations or community experience.
