She also worked for McGraw-Hill Higher Education as an independent author from 2003-2007, where she served as the flagship author of “Contract Law for Paralegals” and “Ethics for Paralegals.”
From 2002-2007, Wendall was the Program Director of Paralegal Studies at Union County College in New Jersey, where she counseled students in career development, job placement activities, and departmental, academic, and advisory board meetings. While at Union County College, she also established a Paralegal Studies Program and served as the Editor in Chief for The Educator, the American Association for Paralegal Education's professional journal.
Her legal career began at the boutique law firm of Tesser & Cohen, where she served as an associate attorney for more than two years. While with the firm she handled construction, commercial, and corporate cases; oversaw discovery teams, and researched and drafted legal memoranda in connection with the Constitutionality of State Condemnation. In 1999 she joined Sears, Sweeney & Marcickiewicz as an associate attorney.
Wendall holds a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law and a BA in French with a minor in Political Science from Rutgers. She is currently working towards an MA in History, with a concentration on Constitutional Theory, at North Carolina State University.
She is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
Beginning in the fall semester of 2011, Wendling began a term as the Vice President of the Triangle Association of Legal Recruitment Administrators (TALRA), which is a joint professional development effort between legal recruiters from law firms across North Carolina and the career service staff from the state's law schools.