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LITIGATION PARALEGAL RESUME

Dean McAdams

*** *ulver Blvd., #144

Playa del Rey, CA 90293

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www.ParalegalLosAngeles.com

Cell: 310-***-**** – Fax: 310-***-****

EDUCATION:

California State University Northridge

Bachelor of Arts Degree - Radio-TV-Film 1981

University of California at Los Angeles Extension

Attorney Assistant Training Program

ABA Paralegal Certificate in Litigation 1989

Glendale University College of Law

First Year Torts Program 1991

Mediation Certificates:

1. Centinela Youth Services - Hawthorne, CA 2007

2. Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution - Los Angeles, CA 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

LEGAL NOODLE – Paralegal Service – Playa del Rey, CA 2007-2012

Design, build, blog and maintain legal websites to market independent contract paralegal services. Perform legal research, writing, file in state and federal courts. Draft complaints, demurrers, law and motion, discovery, enforcement of judgment for local and out of state attorneys and law firms. Good with client contract. Stellar references available.

Fremont College, Paralegal Studies Program - Cerritos, CA

Part Time Classroom Instructor 2007

Research, organize, prepare and present legal teaching materials to students and faculty in accordance with ABA guidelines. Give tests and grade students.

SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY (Now Liberty Mutual) - House Counsel - Glendale, CA

House Counsel Paralegal 1996-2006

Complete insurance defense litigation paralegal-from answering and demurring to attending trial and assisting with voir dire. Areas of Practice: Construction defect, dental malpractice, product&premises liability, slip and fall, auto, homeowner’s and select markets (commercial towing, heavy machinery, factory and manufacturing equipment). Researched and drafted MSJ’s, discovery motions, briefs, legal memos, special interrogatories, letters, subpoenas. Conducted discovery, summarized medical records and discovery responses, organized and indexed files, filed and served pleadings and handled expert witnesses. HEAVY TRIAL EXPERIENCE. Interacted with claims, opposing counsel, courts, vendors and document depositories. Monitored discovery and motion cut-off dates. Started out as temporary legal secretary.

Law Offices of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA

Temporary Criminal Law Legal Secretary 1996

Some client contact to facilitate drafting of motions for early termination of probation and expungement of misdemeanor and felony criminal convictions.

Mercury Insurance Company- Los Angeles, CA

House Counsel Insurance Defense Litigation Secretary/Paralegal 1985 - 1995

Drafted motions, meet & confer letters. Heavy discovery working for three attorneys. Reviewed medical records and discovery. Conducted legal research and briefed cases.

MEDIATION EXPERIENCE:

The Settlement Works - Marina del Rey, CA

Part Time Mediator and Business Development 2007

Assist two attorneys in empowering individuals and families by using transformational mediation to settle both informal conflicts and cases already in litigation. Develop new markets for mediation in spiritual communities.

Centinela Youth Services - Hawthorne, CA

Part Time Mediator 2007

Mediate real conflict involving sexual battery, shoplifting, vandalism, family matters, school problems and peer pressure in two juvenile offender diversion programs: VORS (Victim Offender Restitution Services) FARS (Families Able to Resolve Situations)

Subrogation Division, Inc. - Atlanta, GA

Local Contract Mediation Representative 2008

Attend local mediations with settlement authority on behalf of out-of-state insurance carriers and facilitate settlement when possible. Write effective mediation reports with new information gathered.

Program Advisory Committee – Everest College Paralegal Program October 2012

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