A Dallas native, Joncilee graduated from Texas A&M University with a BA in Political Science and a double minor in History and Sociology.  Her paralegal education was at Southeastern Paralegal Institute (an ABA approved school in Dallas, Texas), where she obtained her certificate with high honors.  Following her paralegal education, she obtained her MS degree in Human Relations and Business.  Joncilee obtained her Certified Paralegal Designation from NALA in 1998 and her Advanced Paralegal Certification in Trial Practice in 2007.

Joncilee has a diverse litigation background, including appellate, family, criminal, commercial litigation, insurance fraud, insurance defense, intellectual property, and toxic tort. In 2005, Joncilee was honored with being elected to the Kaplan Education Alumni Hall of Fame.

Joncilee has served the paralegal profession at the state and local levels.  In 2001, Joncilee became a charter member of the North Texas Paralegal Association, where she has served in the following capacities: President, First Vice President – Membership, Second Vice President – Education and Elections, Ethics Committee Chair, Publications Committee Chair, and Parliamentarian.  In 1998, she joined the State Bar of Texas – Paralegal Division and has served them as District Two Membership Subchair, Membership Committee Chair, District Two Director, and President-Elect.  In June 2012, she will be sworn in as President. She is also a charter member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, Paralegal Division.  Joncilee is a frequent CLE speaker and mentor to junior paralegals.

When Joncilee is not preparing for trial or busy with various paralegal groups, she enjoys participating in charity events, yoga, traveling, and reading.

An inmate in the Beaver County Jail is facing charges after county detectives said he spit on a paralegal.

Leon C. Mills, 30, whose last known address was 254 Pennsylvania Ave., Rochester, is charged with aggravated harassment by a prisoner and making terroristic threats in the April 25 incident.

According to Beaver County detectives, Mills was being interviewed by Dionna Steele, a paralegal with the Beaver County Public Defenders Office, about 10:50 a.m., when he became “hostile.”

When guards removed Mills from the meeting cell, he began yelling racial slurs and attempted to bite them, detectives said. Mills was placed in the restrictive housing unit, the complaint said.

Mills also is facing charges of retail theft and making terroristic threats in other cases in Beaver County Court.

Source: TimesOnline

The American Nazi Party has registered its first-ever Capitol Hill lobbyist, a 55-year-old South Carolina paralegal named John Taylor Bowles. Bowles chatted with us by phone from his Greenville-area home (he will commute to D.C.) about his legislative goals, the time he ran for president, and his desire to work with Joe Lieberman.

An easygoing conversationalist with a lilting drawl, Bowles came to life when discussing Nazi ideology (small government and constitutionalism, he says) and avoided discussing specifics about Congress, despite my most ardent attempts to get him to compile a list of America’s most Nazi-friendly politicians. Already sidestepping the press like a pro.

Why did you register to be America’s first-ever Nazi lobbyist, representing the American Nazi Party (ANP)?

We have to practice what we preach. We tell people in this country that they need to get out there and practice their constitutional rights, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. But there’s one we seldom use: the freedom to petition the government. So this is the tactic we’re trying now, to start petitioning government. This is the first time anybody ever did in America it as a National Socialist. We’re going to see if we can have a little bit of influence in Congress, and help them make decisions.

I’ve never been a lobbyist before, but I have experience in politics going back 35 years. I’ve run candidates for office, including Wolfgang Schrodt, who was in 1975 was the first National Socialist ever to win a primary election and enter the general election to be on the City Council of Baltimore.

And you ran for president in 2008.

And I’ll tell you what, that was a tactic, too. I did that as a sincere effort to show the rest of the National Socialists and white racialists that this is something we can do, and we should have been doing this a long time ago, and it can be done.

I campaigned in uniform, and let me tell you, they were honking and shaking my hand up in South Dakota. I went down to Texas and the border, and they liked me there, too. Ron Paul took a lot of my gusto, though, and then I ran into a problem because the National Socialist Movement—that’s the party I belonged to before the ANP—gave me the boot. I might be the first presidential candidate booted out of his party in the middle of an election. NSM’s commander was not a very good leader. You know, he’s having a scandal now, because he married a race-mixed wife of Arab descent who had a mulatto child. [Ed: Jeff Schoep, who is in the midst of a messy divorce.] His whole party’s just falling apart. They guy they replaced me with, he was an FBI informant. [Ed: Brian Holland, rumored to have turned snitch due to gambling debt.]

What are your goals as a lobbyist?

It depends on the issue. Whatever is hot at the time, I’ll see what is a valid issue that I can address. Immigration is always a hot topic, but I’ll tell you what, the number one issue for me is ballot access laws. They’re terrible. It’s easier to run for President of Iran than President of the United States.

So people who have run as independents would be natural allies. What do you think of Joe Lieberman?

If Mr. Lieberman proposes something, I’ll talk to him.

Even though he’s Jewish?

He might like to hear some new ideas. You never know.

What other issues do you care about?

As National Socalists we believe America is headed in the wrong direction, and our leaders are too. Even Mitt Romney is on the wrong path. George Washington warned us not to get into alliances with other coutries, and now we have military bases in 70 countries. We’re off of what the founding fathers wanted from this country.

So, nothing specific.

Just whatever comes up. We’ll see.

Source: Gawker

To be inducted into the honor society, Lambda Epsilon Chi, students must maintain a 3.5 grade point average, demonstrate superior academic performance, be active members of the college’s paralegal club, and have completed two-thirds of the college’s paralegal program, according to a press release.

The paralegal program at SJC is ranked among the top 100 in North America, is approved by the American Bar Association and earned exemplary status by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the press release said.

For more information about the college or the paralegal program, call 281-998-6150 or go to www.sanjac.edu.

Source: Ultimate Pasadena

That’s where International Business Company Formation, Inc., www.ibcf.com, comes to the rescue.  Founded in the ‘90’s and located just North of Manhattan, IBCF specializes in these same corporate services internationally (we also do domestic corporate work throughout the US.)  But when working internationally, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, you must convey to the client that they aren’t in Kansas anymore and if you can get them to understand a few concepts, the client will be much more patient.

1.  In general, to obtain corporate documents outside the US, you must have the name of the target company in the local language and must usually have the local address.  To be simplistic, the world consists of civil law and common law jurisdictions, the latter generally from an English legal tradition such as the US, Canada, Australia + New Zealand, Caribbean jurisdictions, etc.  In common law jurisdictions, there is usually a central filing registry and the name is usually enough to find what you need.  However, in civil law countries, there is usually no central registry.  Rather documents are filed at the “Trade Register” at the primary address of the company.  There can be many Trade Registers in any given city which is why you need the address.  Incidentally, the equivalent to a CGS is usually called a Certified Extract from the Trade Register.
2. There are generally no (easily-available) forms in most civil law countries.  Each country has its own set of companies but there is usually an entity analogous to the US corporation (SA, AG, etc.) or Limited Liability Company (SRL, GmbH, etc.)  Requirements to form (e.g. paid-in capital, residency requirements, etc.) will vary and an attorney is usually required for formation.  By contrast, in some common law countries such as some offshore jurisdictions, companies can often be formed even faster and easier than in Delaware!
3. Because of number 2, if it cost hundreds and takes days in the US, it will usually cost thousands and take weeks internationally!  The good news is that it is usually not this bad but if you can set the client’s expectations early, you’ll over-deliver and look like a hero.
4. The concept of registered agent and UCC searches are generally unknown outside the US.  With RA services, these are almost always limited to common law jurisdictions.  In the case of special agreements (financing agreements), IBCF can usually set up an agreement by contract.

Also, there is no UCC outside the US!   Canada has a close counterpart – the PPSA – and many common law jurisdictions have indices for “charges” which can be filed against a company registered there.

In summation, each country has its own rules.  Contact IBCF by telephone or email and they can walk you through the thicket of international corporate practice!