Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

February 2011: Elizabeth Miner

By Jeannie Sapp Johnston

Elizabeth Miner

Elizabeth Miner is currently a corporate paralegal employed by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. at their corporate headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Elizabeth became a paralegal through experience and mentoring by attorneys, eventually obtaining her Paralegal Certificate from the Colorado University and has continued to attend classes at Northeastern University.

In her career Elizabeth has worked in a variety of fields of law from Supreme Court litigation to entrepreneurial ventures, working now with corporate governance, both domestic and international, for 600+ subsidiaries of a public company. She has a strong focus on process improvement and has been recruited as a companywide facilitator to forward this mission in various sectors of the business.

Elizabeth was profiled in The Law of Corporations and Other Business Organizations 5th Ed., mentors junior paralegals and is active in many online paralegal networking groups and listservs.

Elizabeth is highly involved in her community as a member of the American Red Cross on the disaster response team and the Medical Reserve Corp as non-medical personnel. She has been working with Project Bread to end hunger in Massachusetts for over 25 years, volunteers with local homeless prevention programs, and regularly donates platelets for children undergoing cancer treatments at Boston?s Children?s Hospital.

Elizabeth is the proud parent of two grown children one working with youth in need as a residential counselor and the other attending UNC Charlotte. She is an avid runner and scuba diver from her time living abroad in Belize, Central America.

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Full post as published by ParalegalGateway Blawg on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).