Medical Insurance

HEATHER GRAY

518-***-**** ********@*****.***

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Experienced litigation attorney, personal injury, property damage litigation, criminal and

family.

• Experienced Foreclosure Referee in Schenectady, New York.

• Proven ability to manage and litigate an assigned caseload in excess of 200 cases.

• Extensive experience and expertise in the conduct of depositions and the handling of daily

court appearances.

• Experienced in the evaluation of personal injury cases including settlement and trial.

• Admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COURT APPOINTMENTS as INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR 9/2008 - Present

Schenectady, NY

• Schenectady County 18b assigned counsel list for criminal and family courts; part 36

appointments

BAILEY, KELLEHER & JOHNSON, P.C. Albany, New York 2/2009 – 9/2009

Associate Attorney

• Insurance personal injury defense; subrogation

• Drafted pleadings-Answers, Answers to Interrogatories, discovery demands and

responses; scheduled deposition

• Summary judgment motions, liability motions; scheduled depositions, independent

medical examinations

• Gathered medicals and investigated claim

BLITZ & BLITZ, LLC. North Bergen, New Jersey 5/2003 – 7/2008

Managing Partner

• Extensive court appearance experience

• Responsible for the handling and evaluation of both a plaintiff caseload.

• Conduct of examinations before trial, arbitrations, mediations and settlement of cases.

• Drafted case value analysis evaluations concerning cases within the practice.

• Trial experience and a great deal of client contact.

• Assisted in the investigation of plaintiff’s cases and process service in difficult cases

• Interviewed prospective clients, drafted pleadings-summons, Complaints, Answers to

Interrogatories, discovery demands and responses, prepared summary judgment and

liability motions, prepared client settlement statements

• Prepared and drafted checks to medical providers and settlement check to client,

negotiated settlements with insurance companies

• Prepared infant settlements, attended pre-trial conferences, settlement conferences,

mandatory non-binding arbitrations, friendly conferences

• Argued summary judgment and liability motions, prepared for depositions involving

litigants, physicians, witnesses, premise liability experts

• Visited accident scene in preparation of case.

Travelers Insurance Company, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic Counties, NJ 2001 – 2003

Associate Attorney

• Drafted pleadings-Answers, Answers to Interrogatories, discovery demands and

responses; scheduled deposition

• Independent medical examinations; conference cases with examining physician(s) and

claim adjusters

• Gathered medicals and investigated claim; worked side by side with claim adjusters at

court resolving claim at settlement conferences with judges and opposing counsel

• Prepared clients for depositions, deposed litigants, physicians, premise liability experts,

witnesses

• Recruited prospective employees to Travelers

• Developed medical seminars for Travelers; attended court hearings- trials calls, jury trial-

one trial -victorious, arbitrations, friendly hearings, settlement conferences

• Prepared and argued summary judgment motions and liability motions, covered cases for

other team members

• Handled caseload of 100-200 cases defending Travelers policyholders

Allstate Insurance Company, Passaic County NJ 1996 -2001

Trial Attorney

• Drafted Answers to Interrogatories, discovery demands and responses, deposition

summaries, arbitration, settlement and trial reports

• Summary judgment motions, liability motions; scheduled depositions, independent

medical examinations

• Conference cases with examining doctors-orthopedists, neurologists, chiropractors,

psychologists; visited accident scene in preparation of defense of case,

• Attended mandatory non-binding arbitrations, friendly conferences, settlement

conferences, weekly trials calls, jury trials, bench trials, argued summary judgment and

liability motions maintained close relationship with claim adjusters monitoring and

defending claims

• Prepared and filed closing papers, monitored caseload between 100-200 defense files-

victorious on all trials

• Cases published in jury verdict reporter, received trial award for most trials, attended

Allstate medical seminars

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EDUCATION

Thomas M. Cooley Law School Lansing, Michigan

Juris Doctor

The College of Saint Rose Albany, New York

B.A.

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