PROFESSIONAL SUMMERY
Valedictorian and Gold Medalist Legal Professional with diverse
multinational Paralegal experience in wide variety of laws including but
not limited to Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Medical
Malpractice
EDUCATION
WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Wilmington, Delaware
LL.M., cum laude, May 2010
GPA: 3.576
Honors and Awards: Pro Bono distinction for voluntary legal
service at the Department of Justice
Certificate of Achievement
for securing highest grade in Colloquium
NAGPUR UNIVERSITY, Nagpur, India
LL.B., summa cum laude, May 2008
Honors and Awards: Valedictorian of graduating students (Class
Rank: # 1 out of 600 students)
Fifteen gold medals for
academic achievement of highest grade in class
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FREKHTMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, Brooklyn, NY
Personal Injury Paralegal
November
2010 - January 2011
. Performed e-filing, e-discovery and litigation work including intake,
trial, and post trial
. Drafted and prepared Summons and Complaints, Bills of Particulars, all
discovery demands and responses, motions, responses to Court Orders,
No Fault applications
. Prepared answers to complaints, including initial contact with claims
adjusters and clients
. Set up Independent Medical Examinations, diagnostic film reviews and
reviewed medical records and damages
MAKAN CONSTRUCTION, Harriman, NY
Real Estate Paralegal & Executive Assistant
August 2010 - November
2010
. Reviewed title and search result and prepared closing checklists, due
diligence review, UCC Financing Statements, document organization and
closing binders
. Performed SEC Audit with Tax Attorney for financial year 2005-2006
. Recommended contractual best practices based upon comparative analysis
. Made travel arrangements, scheduled appointments, and maintained
calendar
THE HONORABLE GREGORY M. SLEET, U.S. District Court for the District of
Delaware
Judicial Extern
January 2010-May 2010
. Drafted judicial opinions on a wide variety of issues by researching
in Westlaw and LexisNexis and performing cite checking, shepardizing,
proof-reading and bluebooking
. Drafted inter-office memoranda on various issues including forum
selection clause, appointment of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1915
. Attended sentencing and jury trial in the case of United States of
America v. Allan P. Clark
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Delaware
Medicaid and Fraud Control Unit Intern
June 2009 -
November 2009
. Developed a comprehensive database of Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) in United States
. Used Concordance and Summation to perform document review involving a
pharmaceutical giant wherein the issue was whether the rebate
agreement would be interpreted in accordance with the Best Price
Statute therefore precluding a breach of contract suit
. Observed law making in the Legislative Hal
THE HONORABLE SUSAN DEL PESCO (Retired), Superior Court of Delaware
Policy Research Legal Intern
June
2009 - November 2009
. Conducted comparative study of Power of Attorney Statute in United
States and United Kingdom and assisted in developing amendments and
new statutory ideas for formulating a model Power of Attorney Statute
. Conducted extensive review of Delaware's Adult Abuse Statute and
recommended suggestions for making it adult friendly
LAW OFFICES OF ADVOCATE GAYDHANE, Nagpur, India
Litigation Paralegal
January 2005 - July 2008
. Organized documents and coordinated document production
. Organized interview memos, digests and other relevant documents for
case preparation
. Prepared for and attended depositions and trials
COMPUTER SKILLS
LexisNexis, Westlaw, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Word Perfect, MS
Access, MS FrontPage, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project, Amicus Attorney,
Concurrence, Time Matters, Time slips, SAGA, Concordance, Summation
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluent in Hindi and Marathi
BAR MEMBERSHIP
License to Practice in India