Overview
With more than 20 years of experience in the office administration field, Paola has effectively managed daily operations which include planning, implementing, and ensuring the functionality for a wide range of law firms. She has partnered with vendors, real estate developments and building management to ensure office space needs are met for tenant improvement work, new construction, and mergers and acquisitions. What has propelled Paola’s success is the ability to understand the needs of the business and the why behind strategies to link to ongoing priorities, mission and meaning.
As the Director of Facilities, Paola is responsible for the day-to-day operations managing multi-state facilities, construction projects, office services, and records management. Her goal is to provide timely, efficient and creative solutions to utilize the office resources to the best of their capacities for the attorneys, staff and clients. She leads the ops team to help create innovative and efficient solutions for the firm.
Outside the office, Paola enjoys spending time with her husband, their three daughters Sophia, Samantha and Sarah, and Chloe the Chocolate Lab. As a family they enjoy spontaneous traveling to different places around the US, with their favorite place being Florida.
Membership & Involvement
Member: Association of Legal Administrators (ALA); International Facility Management Association (IFMA)
- Happy Public Domain Day!
Happy Public Domain Day!Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinRead Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectKeep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalOn May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
Education
DePaul University, MBA, 2020
DeVry University, B.S., 2006
Languages
- Spanish