Jack West
Email: abqixi@r.postjobfree.com
Address: **** ***** *** ***. ****
City: Seattle
State: WA
Zip: 98101
Country: USA
Phone: 206-***-****
Skill Level: Director
Salary Range: $50,000
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Jack W. West
1823 Terry Ave. Apt 3102 - Seattle, WA 98101
206-***-**** - abqixi@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a paralegal position in a corporate legal department that will allow me to utilize organizational abilities and my interpersonal skills, and my many years of paralegal experience.
EXPERIENCE
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
1000 Louisiana, Suite 5100
Houston, Texas 77002-5096
Senior Paralegal, 1988-1993
4 months onsite at client Texas Air Corp./Eastern Airlines HQ in Miami, FL collecting, copying, and re-filing documents for Discovery. Coding Discovery documents at home office in Houston.
Travelled to 11 U.S. cities managing team of 6 to interview client document custodians and collect documents for discovery.
Managed all Plaintiff documents for Pipe Fabrication Price Fixing litigation resulting in multi-million dollar settlement.
Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave. Suite 3200
Seattle, WA 98101
Senior Paralegal, Complex Litigation, 1993-2006
2 years of telephone contact and travel to Alaska Native villages to assist natives in the completion of claim forms. Maintained data base of all claimant information.
1 year in the offices of the Florida Attorney General in Tallahassee coding defendant documents into joint plaintiffs` database in the Sanitary Paper Price Fixing Litigation.
Organized and supervised teams of paralegals coding documents for multiple Complex Litigation cases across the United States. Prepared coding forms under the supervision of senior attorneys.
Trained and mentored paralegal assistants joining the firm during my tenure.
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave. Suite 3800
Seattle, WA 98101
Senior Paralegal, Complex Litigation 2006-2012
Managed Complex Litigation case document productions.
Coordinated with multiple co-counsels across the United States on case issues. Supervised the collection of client documents and the processing of client and defendant documents for intellectual property patent infringement cases involving IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, among others.
Negotiated with outside vendors and coordinated the upload and management of millions of pages of plaintiff and defendant documents in online data bases such as Relativity, Lextranet, and Case Central.
Performed searches in online data bases at the request of attorneys and prepared online folders for witness files, hot documents, and privileged documents.
Utilizing Excel spreadsheets, maintained document production logs and deposition rosters.
Prepared exhibits for and participated in patent infringement trials in the Eastern District of Texas resulting in multi-million dollar settlements.
Communicated daily with firm partners, associates and co-counsel on case scheduling and status of discovery issues.
EDUCATION
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Drive
San Marcos, Texas 78666
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and English, with Honors, 1970
REFERENCES
References provided upon request.