Manager Case

CELESTE M. PIERCE

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BUSINESS SUMMARY

Skilled Paralegal with 10+ years experience in the following areas:

Intellectual Property; Complex Business Litigation; Contract Administration

and Government Compliance. Demonstrated ability to lead, supervise, mentor

and coordinate overall office activities by applying strong organizational

and analytical skills. Experienced in electronic data capture and review.

Excellent team player, who is comfortable working with all levels of

management, staff and clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Contactor

2008 - PRESENT

Independent Contractor

. Serve as Accounting Manager of a small automotive repair shop

. Oversees all accounts payable and receivables utilizing QuickBooks

for business

. Assisted owner with legal documents to incorporate business

. Manages the year end tax reporting process

Broncus Technologies, Inc.

2007 - 2008

Contracts Administrator Paralegal

. Review and negotiate Clinical Trial contracts worldwide

. Generate confidentiality, consultant, amendments, service, supply,

and other standard contracts

. Performed legal research, managed and tracked contracts files

within contract database

Conor MedSystems, LLC 2007

Litigation Paralegal

. Supported Sr. Litigation Counsel while acting as a liaison to

outside law firms

. Performed document review and organization of corporate files

pertaining to U.S. and foreign patent litigation, legal research

and fact analysis

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

2006

Trial Litigation Specialist

. Trial coordinator, discovery and data manager. Prepared for trial and

attended Trial for a patent infringement trial in USDC, Delaware.

ComUnity Lending, Inc.

2006

Compliance Team Manager

. Supervised and directed team with compliance related issues in

residential mortgage lending and brokering

. Performed legal research, licensing, data review and monitoring of

the same, reported to Senior V.P. of Risk Management

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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

1997 - 2006

Case Manager and Trial Specialist

. Case Manager, Team Coordinator and Supervisor of both associate

attorneys and paralegals.

. Pre-trial duties included deposition preparation and tracking,

discovery review and analysis including interrogatories and

documents/data, factual analysis, organizing trial exhibits,

witness preparation, and supervision of trial team consisting of

paralegals and case assistants

. Provided coordination for Class Action Suit with over 900

participants by supporting Attorneys, editing documents and trial

exhibit tracking

. Coordinated all trial logistics to include setting up the Trial

Site, work with trial support vendors, while providing support to

experts, Attorneys and staff

Other Contract Assignments

Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass

2001

Trial Paralegal

Fenwick and West

2000

Trial Paralegal

Intel Corporation

1999

Litigation Paralegal

Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin and Friel

1999

Trial Litigation Paralegal Specialist

Webvan Group, Inc.

1999

In-House Paralegal

EDUCATION

Santa Clara University

Paralegal Certificate

Regis University

B.A. Political Science, Minor in Business Administration

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Concordance, Summation, Trial Director, LiveNote, MS Office Suite (Word,

Excel, Power Point, Access;) iManage, Docs Open, Case Map, Hot Docs,

Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, EDD; and QuickBooks

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