CARA BAKER

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Houston, Texas 77008

7386. acn1y8@r.postjobfree.com

Paralegal with ten years combined experience in Corporate, Personal Injury,

Civil Litigation, and Intellectual Property Prosecution and Litigation.

Seeking short or long term contracts for in-house or virtual office

support.

PARALEGAL SKILLS:

IP: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets. USPTO/PCT E-

filing, document assembly, patent applications, responses, foreign

filing and agent correspondence, docketing, prior art research and

IDS's, group management. Software and databases: Adobe Acrobat, E-

space, Foundation IP, IPDAS, Imanage, MS Office Suite, PATSY, TABS,

Total Patent, USPTO, and many other international patent databases for

research.

Civil/PI; Litigation: Document review and production; pleadings,

discovery and correspondence. Records ordering, management, and

summary. File management and indexing. Trial preparation; deposition

scheduling, management and summary, exhibit and witness lists (bates),

internet research, skip tracing. Software and databases: MS Office

Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Case Logistix, Lexis Nexis, Lois Law, MS Office

Suite, Pacer, West Law, SAGA, TABS, and Summation.

EXPERIENCE:

Contract Paralegal 2011-present Houston, Texas

Corporate support; contracts management. IP Prosecution; Patents,

Trademarks and Trade Secrets. Daily monitoring, patent applications,

responses, IDS's, formal drawings, pre-appeal/appeal briefs, and issue

fees. Matter management and software implementation. Personal injury;

document review, discovery/document production, pleadings drafting,

trial prep and research regarding the same.

Osha Liang, LLP 2009-2011 Houston, Texas Intellectual Property

Boutique

Administrative assistant and paralegal to partner. Hired to organize

mechanical group three and bring current a docket two years

delinquent. Created manual docket that was distributed weekly and

monitored daily. Filled in for absent assistants, trained new staff

(legal and support) for the group, and assisted with any overflow

support for the rest of the firm.

Karen Tripp, Attorney 2006-2009 Houston, Texas Mentor and

instructor at CALS

Halliburton/Oil & Gas. Contracted to assist with organization of

files, prosecution docket, and prior art IDS's. Largest project

encompassed several family patent applications, continuations, and

their IDS's. Over four hundred cited prior art references researched,

created and reproduced for filing in each application.

Cohen, Gorman and Putnam, LLP 2005-2006 Houston, Texas

Maritime, Aviation and Interstate Commerce. Personal injury. Hired as

receptionist while in paralegal school. Promoted to head paralegal

after completion of courses. File maintenance, document production,

deposition scheduling, management and summary of the same. Records

(medical, employment, education) ordering, management and summary of

the same. Trial preparation: trial notebooks, exhibits and witness

lists and corresponding notebooks.

EDUCATION

University of St. Thomas, MLA, Art History (in progress 2016).

Florida Southern College, BA, Studio Arts, 1992. Deans' list, Kappa

Pi.

Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Post-bachelor certificate 2005.

LEX. (ABA approved)

AIA Seminar 2013

Mac friendly. Contracts include: Exxon Mobile, Schlumberger,

Halliburton, and O2 Systems Inc.

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