PATRICIA L. BAL

Cell: 917-***-**** Email: acggc2@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Notary Public, Paralegal with Medical Malpractice, Estate Planning,

Trial, Labor & Employment, and Corporate experience.

EMPLOYMENT:

3/13 - Present Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Atlanta,

GA

Litigation/Corporate Legal Manager (Legal Department)

. Manage 2 litigation specialist and 2 administrative assistants.

Prepare mid-year and annual employee reviews. Coordinate temp

coverage for legal team. Conduct weekly update team meetings.

. Assist counsel with paralegal duties. Assist with preservation

demands; document review; uploading of legal forms to turner legal

department website for company-wide use. Prepare retention emails

to outside counsel; assist with RPD's; review and prepare opt-out

letters for class-action notifications; maintain statute of

limitation reference sheet. Prepare quarterly litigation reports

for reporting to Executive team.

. Prepare quarterly legal reserve reports and gather updates for

quarterly meeting. Schedule update meetings with Finance team and

Ernest & Young team for audit reviews. Assist Executive Director

of Finance Policy in preparation for quarterly meetings.

Correspondence with domestic and international outside counsel

regarding case status updates. Update case status reports for

submission to Executive Finance Team.

. Conduct monthly status calls with Risk Management team to discuss

coverage of new claims and/or lawsuits and updates on existing

matters. Prepare and submit reporting forms to Risk team for new

claims and new lawsuits.

. Assist with document preservation company-wide and Document

Management Policy process with regard to termination of

preservation. Assist counsel with drafting preservation notices;

liaison between legal team and IT team regarding data captures for

preservation purposes.

. Assist employment team with preservation of documents for employee

departures. Quarterly meeting with employment team regarding

updates on existing matters and reporting of new EEOC claims and/or

lawsuits.

. Assist with review of invoices and setting up new matters in e-

Counsel; liaison between counsel and Legal Billing Manager

regarding expediting invoices and set-up of new counsel for billing

purposes. Assist with obtaining settlement payments from Procure

team in coordination with settlement terms.

7/07 - 3/13 Beazer Homes Corp. Atlanta, GA

Litigation/Corporate Paralegal (Legal Department)

. Case management of approximately 300 litigated matters across 15

corporate divisions; Matters involved construction defects, personal

injuries, HOA claims and Subrogation claims. Draft and Review HOA

contracts and settlement agreements.

. Manage all aspects of litigation for 15 corporate divisions on the

nations' sixth largest national homebuilder including opening files,

tracking answers and responsive pleadings, maintain pleadings and

correspondence files.

. Research jurisdictional guidelines and develop state specific policies

for division personnel to adhere to when served with lawsuits.

Maintain Serengeti case management data base and prepare reports from

litigation management software; Review of SalesForce for subcontractor

and homeowner information.

. Schedule and participate in substantive discussions with division

personnel and outside counsel with regard to strategy of cases.

Assist division and outside counsel in responding to discovery such as

Interrogatories and Document Requests.

. Draft and review homeowner Settlement Agreements; Schedule and

participate in quarterly CFO Calls with division personnel to review

ongoing litigated matters.

. Research and prepare special case management projects as requested;

Liaison between registered agent "CSC" (Corporate Service Company) and

Beazer. Assist in preparation of Board of Directors meeting. Prepare

board book for Board of Directors quarterly meeting and maintain

corporate minute books.

2/03 - 7/07 Balch & Bingham, LLP Atlanta, GA

Litigation Paralegal (Business Litigation Group)

. Assist attorneys during trial. Assist with pretrial, trial and

exhibit preparations. Prepare trial exhibits on Summation as

demonstrative exhibits for use at trial; Organize and mark trial

exhibits and trial notebooks. Prepare and serve trial subpoenas.

Draft of jury instructions, motions in limine and voir dire questions.

. Responsible for organizing and maintaining client files and documents.

Document searches on Internet and in Summation Case Management.

Organize and mark significant document production.

. Responsible for maintaining document intensive case loads. Heavy

client contact. Liaison between clients, vendors, attorneys and

experts. Responsible for coordinating meetings. Prepare draft

discovery and pleadings (Interrogatories, Document Requests,

Certificates of Service, Subpoenas, etc.).

. Prepare charts on Excel as demonstrative exhibits. Create time-lines

in preparation for trial. Responsible for coordinating deposition

schedules. Prepare and organize significant documents as exhibits for

trial and depositions.

. Coordinate projects. Responsible for retrieving and forwarding Lexis

Nexis File & Serve pleadings to attorneys and clients. Correspondence

with clients, vendors and counsel on case related matters. Indexing

of transcripts and exhibits from depositions. Draft deposition

summaries.

. Review of privileged documents and draft privilege logs. Bates label

and redact documents for production. Prepare documents for filing

and/or e-filing with various courts.

10/01 - 2/03 Greenberg Traurig, LLP New York, NY

Legal Assistant/Paralegal (Business Litigation Group)

. Correspond with clients and counsel on factual matters. Organize and

maintain client files, gather and organize factual data.

. Index documents for case management. Review periodicals and material

relevant to cases. Maintain current binders of court rules. Maintain

calendar and tickler system. Run preliminary conflict checks on

potential clients and related matters.

. Responsible for maintaining document intensive case loads. Liaison

between clients and attorneys. Responsible for coordinating client

meetings. Prepare draft pleadings and responses.

6/99 - 10/01 Bartlett, Bartlett & Ziegler, P.C. New

York, NY

Litigation Paralegal (Employment Group)

. Work directly with experts on given case. Coordinate special

projects. Obtain and examine public records through vendex searches.

Draft jury instruction and voir dire. Prepare settlement calculations

on excel for labor and employment cases. Prepare charts on Case Map

as demonstrative exhibits for use at trial.

. Prepare appropriate forms for labor and employment discrimination

practice. Served as a liaison between attorneys, Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission and clients.

. Draft pleadings, Affidavits and Notices of Appeal. Draft Bill of

Particulars. Prepare summons & complaint and process of service.

Obtain certified copies of judgment transcripts. Prepare trial

notebooks. Examine location sites by way of photos and taking notes.

Arrange for expert witnesses.

. Maintain calendar and tickler system for discovery deadlines. Assist

experts with reviewing process of case sensitive documents.

6/97 - 6/99 Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. New

York, NY

Litigation Paralegal (Products Liability and Med Mal

Group)

. Responsible for organizing and maintaining litigation case files.

Assisted attorneys in preparation for depositions and litigation.

Served as liaison between attorneys, medical experts and clients.

. Responsible for replying in a timely fashion to adversaries' demands

and supplemental responses. Heavy document production and Live Note

researches. Assist with preparation of witnesses for depositions.

Assisted on interviews with clients for background medical

information.

. Traveled with attorneys for deposition and research. Prepared,

organized and marked trial exhibits. Assisted attorneys in pretrial,

trial and exhibit preparations. Exchanged medical information,

radiology, pathology material, and expert reports.

. Draft of medical chronologies and summaries from case sensitive

articles and reports. Schedule travel arrangements in management of

cases in the Breast Implant Global Settlement.

. Prepared correspondence, memorandums, preliminary conference schedules

and subpoenas. Heavy client contact and request of medical records

and preparation of medical authorizations. Document control and

encoding. Prepare charts and graphs for case management.

EDUCATION:

College:

8/91-6/96 John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, NY

B.S. - June 1996

Major: Legal Studies Minor: Law & Psychology

SKILLS: Knowledge of Word Processing, Microsoft Word/Windows, Corel

8.0, LEXIS, WESTLAW, LexisNexis File & Serve, Dictaphone, Excel,

Live Note, Timeslips 10.5, Internet, Fast long hand, Keyboarding

(80 wpm), Case Map, Summation 2.5 and Electronic Filing,

Serengeti and Stars Case Management Programs; SalesForce;

Symantec Enterprise Vault; e-Counsel; SharePoint; PACER;

RepoMan; and Worksite.

REFERENCES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST

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