Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

Paralegal Profile: Wilder Kendric "Ken" Berry, Prisoner Advocate

By Lynne DeVenny

Employer: Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL

Years of Paralegal Experience: 18

Education/Degrees: B.G.S. Social Science, Roosevelt University; A.A.S., Daley College; Paralegal Studies, Lewis University

Specialty Areas: Litigation, Criminal, Civil Right, Pro Bono

Career Highlight: Receiving the Liberty Bell Award from the Chicago Bar Association and the Distinguished Service Award from the Federal Court.

Paralegal Practice Tip: Always be flexible and able to adapt to unforeseen changes. Attitude goes a long way.

Favorite Internet Resource: Lexis

Favorite Legal Software: Ipro/Concordance

Do you use social media resources, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or blogs, for career and/or case development?
I use Facebook as a think tool. I try to post ?thought provoking? ideas and concepts to help people improve their lives. I am not special; I made a decision, a choice, that I was not going to accept the negativity which surfaced. I sincerely believe that we?re stronger than we know. When adversity comes, so does your strength.

Fun Fact: I love lasagna.

One Gadget You Can?t Live Without: Blackberry

Favorite Quote: "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." ~ Muhammad Ali
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I was extraordinarily privileged to write about Ken for Paralegal Today's July/September 2010 Paralegal Spotlight, "Wrongfully Incarcerated Paralegal Becomes Award-Winning Prisoner Advocate". Ken is an incredible human being, as well as an enormously talented paralegal. He's quiet and much more inclined to talk about prisoner advocacy than himself, but his colleagues were more than happy to talk about how truly special he is to them.

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).