Gayla Kunz
ac8jib@r.postjobfree.com
Work Experience:
Paralegal/Legal Secretary
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Seattle, Washington 98104
Litigation: Products Liability/Insurance Defense/Personal Injury
06/18 – 11/18
Electronic Court Filings, Prolaw, Imanage Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client contact and communication; filing; Lexis research, etc.
The Denver Bar Association
Apprentice Personnel
Special Counsel
Robert Half and Associates
Intellisource; 04/2011 – 03/2018
Legal Secretary
Law Offices of Burg Simpson Hersh and Jardine, P.C.
Litigation: Catastrophic Injury/Insurance Defense/Products liability
11/09 – 2/2011
Electronic Court Filings, Imanage, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary
Law Office of Taylor & Anderson, LLP
Litigation: Catastrophic Injury/Insurance Defense/Products liability for Kevin Taylor, Esq. (at his firm and at Snell & Wilmer, LLP)
Electronic Court Filings, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary
Law Office of Snell & Wilmer, LLP
Litigation: Insurance Defense/Catastrophic Injury/Products liability or Kevin Taylor, Esq. (at his firm and at Snell & Wilmer, LLP)
02/04 – 08/09
Electronic Court Filings, Imanage, Power Point, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary
Law Office of Brega & Winters, LLP
Litigation: Products liability/Insurance Defense/
05/98 – 01/04
Court Filings, Imanage, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary
The Frickey Law Firm
Litigation: Products Liability/Personal Injury/Workers Compensation
03/94 – 05/98
Court Filings, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client intake; on-going client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary/Paralegal/Office Manager
The Law Offices of Francis Culkin, P.C.
Litigation: Products Liability/Personal Injury/Family Law
07/90 - 03/94
Court Filings, Power Point, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; client intake; on-going client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary/Office Manager
Law Offices of Richard Fukuda, P.C.
Litigation: Products Liability/Personal Injury/Immigration/Corporate
04/86 – 06/90
Court Filings, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; on-going client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Legal Secretary/Office Manager
Law Offices of Leonard Appell, P.C.
Personal Injury/Products Liability/Family Law
01/84 – 04/86
Court Filings, Prepare pleadings, discovery and disclosures, docketing and client intake, gather accident reports and medical records; ambulance reports; on-going client contact and communication; travel arrangements; dictation; filing; prepare witnesses for depositions; Lexis research, etc.
Exhibit A
Job Description
I worked 20 years plaintiffs’ litigation and 10 years defense litigation. So, client intake and questionnaire, drafting client summaries for the attorney, build the file requesting police reports photographs any investigation reports that might have been drafted by an investigator at the scene, requesting ambulance records, emergency room records, treating physicians’ records any prior psychological records. Proofreading, transcription, editing. Setting up client numbers and electronic files, set up billing files, drafting summons and complaints/drafting answers to complaints. Drafting confidential disclosures. Drafting interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions, drafting answers to the same. Docketing trial management orders. Bates label documents. Drafting settlement offers/demands with supporting documentation. Prepare trial notebooks. Draft jury instructions. Draft basic pleadings and motions, draft notices, subpoenas. Work with court clerks, requests from court reporters. Calendaring, travel arrangements. Prepare witness for deposition or trial. Time entry and monthly bills to clients. Monthly case summaries to clients. Draft correspondents. Research. Electric court filings both in Federal and state courts. Communicate with clients via email and phone calls. Etc.