1. Jennifer Brown
34 Wollybutt Road, Engadine NSW 2233
Phone: 02 9548 6864 Mobile: 0416 437 873 E-Mail: jwallybrown@gmail.com
Objective
I am a career paralegal with 12 years experience as a commercial litigation paralegal in Canada and over
5 years experience as paralegal in Australia. With exposure to insolvency, debt recovery and insurance
defence.
Experience
MinterEllison Sydney December 2015 to present
Insurance and Corporate risk paralegal focusing mainly on insurance defence proceedings including
drafting and electronic filing of court documents, arranging for service of subpoenas, preparation of
instruction letters to experts and preparation of briefs to experts and counsel.
Gadens Sydney February 2011 to December 2015
Insolvency paralegal, focusing mainly on equipment finance recovery, with some exposure to mortgagee
possession and New South Wales and Victoria farm debt mediation practice and procedure.
Borden Ladner Gervais, LLP Vancouver, Canada June 1998 to August 2010
Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) is one of Canada’s largest national law firms with offices in Vancouver,
Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. I had a career as a commercial litigation paralegal, focusing on
large litigation files involving construction, class actions, investment broker claims and intellectual property.
Education
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 1987 to 1992
Bachelor of Arts, major in Political Science and minor in History
Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1996 to 1998
Paralegal Diploma
Skills
Document Management
• reviewing documents for relevance and privilege
• drafting affidavits of documents/lists of documents
• collating discovery documents
• collating briefs to experts and preparing expert brief indexes

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• electronic document discovery using Relativity and Summation
• preparing key documents binders
• Collating counsel briefs and preparing counsel brief indexes
• Collating court books and preparing court book indexes
Legal Drafting
• Drafting subpoenas
• Drafting affidavits and collating annexures
• Drafting demand letters for debt and debt and delivery up; drafting letters of offer
• Drafting statements of claim for debt, debt and delivery up and debt and possession
• Drafting motions for substituted service
• Drafting motions for default judgment for debt, debt and delivery up and debt and possession
• Drafting motions for writ for delivery up of equipment in New South Wales and Queensland
• Drafting bankruptcy notices, requests for extension of time for service of a bankruptcy notice and
attending to electronic lodgment on AFSA website
• Drafting creditor’s petitions and supporting documents including submissions and bills of cost
• Drafting creditor’s statutory demands and originating process to wind up company
• Drafting letters to trustee/liquidator once sequestration order or winding up order made
• Preparing proof of debt to lodge with trustee of bankrupt’s estate
• Drafting applications and correspondence to register New South Wales judgments in Queensland
and Victoria
• Experience with Western Australia District and Magistrates Court forms, Queensland Court forms and
Victoria County Court forms
• Preparing New South Wales and Victoria farm debt mediation forms and drafting mediation
summaries
Online computer skills
• Performing online searches in preparation of pleadings and in support of applications including land
titles searches, ASIC director searches, ASIC company searches, electoral roll searches, bankruptcy
searches and Google searches
• Attending to electronic lodgment of Court documents in New South Wales courts, Federal Court and

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Federal Circuit Court
• Performing PPSR searches and interpreting the search results in support of security reviews. Attending
to PPSR registrations and removal of PPSR registrations
ASIC forms and lodgment
• Preparing and lodging ASIC online notification of winding up hearing
• Preparing ASIC controller forms 504, 505 and 524, preparing ASIC form 519
General skills
• Attention to detail
• Outstanding time management skills, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Pro-active and independent team player with a flexible attitude
• File management, including electronic file, online portal and diary management
• Liaising with agents concerning filing and service of documents
• Liaising directly with clients concerning instructions and file updates
References available upon request