SERENA BURNETT PARALEGAL/OWNER OF THE LEGAL EDGE

Serena Burnett founded THE LEGAL EDGE in 1991 and is its sole owner. Ms. Burnett has been in the legal field since 1980. She began her career as a legal secretary while attending college, and subsequently earned her paralegal certificate from ABA-approved UCLA Attorney Assistant Training Program. She has also been an instructor in that program.

After graduating from UCLA, she started out her paralegal career preparing deposition summaries on the side while working full time as a paralegal. She received so much work, that she enlisted other paralegals to assist her. The business blossomed and she was able to give up her full time position and start working freelance, running the deposition service on the side. All of the connections she made throughout her 20+ years of experience in the legal field proved fruitful. The business has grown every year since its inception, and since 2000, has also included staffing services.

Serena Burnett brings unique international business experience to THE LEGAL EDGE. She has been a partner in DogStar Kennels since 1987. DogStar specializes in raising two breeds of rare and exotic dogs. She has negotiated deals, prepared all contracts and settled disputes for the company. Much of DogStar's clientele are based abroad which has afforded Ms. Burnett much international travel and business dealings in other countries. She has also shown dogs all over the world and has won the World Championship titles for 6 dogs in her showing career.

Ms. Burnett has learned that in both breeding dogs and in managing THE LEGAL EDGE, it is quality, not quantity, which produces superior results. This approach has earned her a stellar international reputation in the dog business and defines THE LEGAL EDGE as a company superior in its ability to deliver quality staffing and services.

In the summer of 2000, Serena Burnett purchased The Katherine Braun Company, a deposition summarizing service which has been in business since 1975. THE LEGAL EDGE is also keeping up with technical advances in the deposition summarizing business. In early 2000 the company trained a team of paralegals in a new program designed to interface with database programs already being used by law firms. In this way, THE LEGAL EDGE is assuring that its deposition summarizing service will not become obsolete. Ms. Burnett's vision for the company is that it remain diverse and offer several high quality services and staff to its clients.