Ms. Halligan is a Certified Professional Paralegal and has earned the Professional Legal Secretary (PLS) certification from the National Association of Legal Secretaries (NALS). She has been a member of NALS since 2001, chairing that organization's Technology Committee in 2009-2010. For 12 years before joining the Grasso Law Firm as a legal assistant, Ms. Halligan worked as a legal assistant and paralegal for law firms in South Dakota and Illinois. She received paralegal degrees from National American University (B.A., 2006) and Western Dakota Technical Institute (A.A.S., 1998). |