Assistant Legal
Resume:
STEPHEN THOMAS
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Paralegal/Legal Assistant with nine years of experience in Admiralty/Maritime, Insurance Defense, and Civil Litigation. I have handled cases from service of complaint to trial. Duties have included creation of files, calendaring complaints, discovery, notice of trial, trial calendar, motions, scheduling hearings, depositions, and IME’s; and drafting requests for and responses to discovery, subpoenas for medical records, employment records, notice of IME, depositions, and medical chronologies. I have experience in both Federal and State Court, and am proficient with cmec/flsd.uscourt filing and Florida Courts e-serving & e-Filing Portal from Miami Dade County to Palm Beach County. Experience in/outside sales of construction building supplies.
EDUCATION:
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Certification in Paralegal Studies
COMPUTER SKILLS
Record Keeping Requirements & Timeslips, PC Law, Perfect Law
Electronic Document Management System/Standard Doc Numbering (SDN)
Abacus, Adobe Pro, LexisNexis, cmec/flsd.uscourt filing, Florida Courts eFiling Portal, State and Federal court docket research, Visibility, AIM.
Microsoft XP, Word, Word Perfect X5, Microsoft Outlook Excel, Email and Internet Applications.
EXPERIENCE:
8/2017 – 10/2017, Southern Nevada Health District (Temp Position with Robert Half)
File Clerk
Record Inventory of all Nevada State records in date, alphabetical order and State Division. Record inventory for files to be destroyed, scanned and prepared for short term or long term storage.Creating box numbers for storage and creating pallets for storage
EXPERIENCE:
4/2017 – 7/2017, Ahern Rentals Co (Temp Position with Robert Half)
Legal Coordinator
Timely and preparation of legal matters from inhouse adjusters once customer hasn't paid past due invoices. Contact customer by phone call and or demand letter to coordinate collect payment or provide a payment schedule. If no contact or or agreement with customer, depending on situation either we file in house with small claims court in the state of rental, or in house attorney to file complaint in Nevada. Follow up on all account and payments and any and all court fillings.
EXPERIENCE:
9/2014 – 12/2016, Banner Supply Co. Miami, Florida
Outside & Inside Sales
Outside sales and inside sales of construction materials, duties include handling of walkin customers and incoming customers calls, new and old accounts, working at the front counter with a team of four and coordinating deliveries and working as a team in a very busy front counter. Working an 11 hour schedule, gathering and matching up all prior day tickets with all sales tickets. Working with program Prophet-21
EXPERIENCE:
3/2013 – 9/2014, Kubicki Draper, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Legal Assistant
Insurance Defense assistant to attorneys correspondence letters responses, e-Filing &
e-Servicing answers, notices and motions, calendaring dates for discovery responses, depositions and hearings, preparing notice of hearing, depositions, notice of appearance, notice of filing designated email addresses. Working with case manager and/or adjusters from Insurance Corporation and Billing time on work done on a weekly basis.
EXPERIENCE:
1/2013 – 3/2013, Koch Parafinczuk & Wolf, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Paralegal/Legal Assistant (Temp/contract position)
Insurance Defense assistant to attorney in breaking down and separating claim files, working with case manager from insurance corporation, calendaring dates for answers, discovery responses and request, depositions, mediation and trial calendar, preparing subpoenas for medical and employment records, trial subpoenas, affidavits, notice of hearing, depositions, appearance and motions and e-Filing & e-Servicing. Billing time on work done on a weekly basis.
EXPERIENCE:
9/2012 – 1/2013, Guttenmacher, Bohatch, Penaranda, P.A., Miami, Florida
Paralegal/Legal Assistant (Temp/contract position)
Tax Litigation, Tax Planning & Wealth Preservation, assistant to Katalina Penaranda, to draft wills, trusts, living wills, and all documents relating to wealth preservation. Creating binders for client’s, creating certificates for shares for LLC draft documents for LLC or INC, and conversions or creation of LLC and INC. Organizing files, labels, and keeping files updated. Billing time on work done on a weekly basis.
EXPERIENCE:
8/2009 – 9/2012, Norwegian Cruise Line, Miami, Florida
Paralegal/Legal Assistant
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation Defense, assistant to Jeffrey Anderson Claims Director and
Litigation attorney, Geoffrey Probst, handle a broad ranged responsibilities that encompass the timely and complex preparation of cases from Federal & State Court cases. Job duties are creating the initial file, retaining independent medical examination doctors, depositions & mediations, subpoenaing medical & employment records, preparing all notices, discovery
responses & requests. Coordinating & calendaring for Federal & State courts and all other
calendaring for discovery responses & request, motions. Answering and calendaring writ of
garnishments.
EXPERIENCE:
6/2009 – 8/2009, Nicklaus & Associates, P.A., Miami, Florida
Paralegal/Legal Assistant (Temp/contract position)
Civil Litigation/Insurance Defense, assistant to attorney in preparing subpoenas for medical and employment records, trial subpoenas. Trial preparation with trial notebook, trial exhibit notebook and trial blow-ups. Create medical chronology; create discovery responses and request, affidavits, notice of hearing, depositions and motions. Billing time on work done on a weekly basis.
EXPERIENCE:
5/2007- 6/2009, Pinkert Law Firm, Miami, Florida
Paralegal/Legal Assistant
PIP Litigation assistant to two attorneys, handling a board ranged responsibilities that
Encompass the timely and preparation of cases from State Court cases. Job duties are creating the initial file, retaining independent medical examination doctors, depositions & mediations, subpoenaing medical & employment records, preparing all notices, discovery
responses & request. Coordinating & calendaring for State courts and all other calendaring for discovery responses & request, motions.
EXPERIENCE:
4/2006 - 5/2007, K&L Gates, Miami, Florida
Legal Assistant
Asbestos & Class Action Law Suits, Manage and supervised over 3000 case. Job duties included clerical filing, calendaring notices and court dates, updating spread sheet of all the cases as to information of illnesses, medical documents and settlements.
EXPERIENCE:
4/2001- 4/2006, Foreman Friedman, P.A., Miami, Florida
File Clerk/Front Desk
Creating and updating all the litigation cases, preparing files for storage, distributing all the incoming mail, preparing all the outgoing mail, prepare the file for trial, answering the phone, ordering of supplies for the office.
EXPERIENCE:
4/1996 - 4/2001, Angones, Hunter McClure Lynch and Williams, P.A., Miami, Florida
File Clerk/Runner
Creating and updating all the litigation cases, preparing files for storage, distributing all the incoming mail, preparing all the outgoing mail, prepare the file for trial, answering the phone, Research and ordering of files from federal and county court, filing of court documents to Federal, County and Probate Courts, and any and all other hand deliveries, ordering of supplies for the office.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
Jeffrey Anderson – Attorney/Director of Claims at NCL 1-954-***-****
Bernadette Alicea – Office Administrator at GBP 305-***-****
Annette Roch -- Legal Secretary at Kubicki Draper 954-***-****
Carlos Gomez – Teacher/Optimist Park Commissioner 305-***-****
Additional references will be furnished upon request
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER:
Head coach and assistant coach for youth football from 2004 - 2016 from ages 9 -16 years of age.
Assistant Commisioner for youth football 2010 - 2014.
Commisioner youth flag football 2010 - 2013 ages 5 - 14.
Head coach Soocer 2007 - 2008 Ages 8 -10
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