Insurance Training
Resume:
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SUMMARY
. Dynamic, energetic Paralegal with many years of diverse litigation
experience in a challenging environment
. Areas of practice: complex commercial litigation, product liability,
torts, insurance, misrepresentation, personal injury, pharmaceuticals,
drug injury, medical malpractice
. Extensive multiple case management; exceptional legal writing and
editing skills; published writer; compiled E-Lexicon, glossary of
electronic communications, ESI, e-discovery and computer terminology;
Regular Contributing Law Lexicographer to Black's Law Dictionary
. Exceptional annual job performance reviews; effective communicator at
all levels of business areas with integrity, enthusiastic attitude and
strong work ethics
. Efficient performer of simultaneous time-sensitive cases; outstanding
research skills: Westlaw, Westlaw Next, LexisNexis, PACER, IDEX,
Accurint, Internet, Google Scholar
. Compiled database of 500 opposing party experts; created 350 computer
files of expert witnesses with their impeachment, exclusion history
and court testimonies
. Made CLE presentations related to legal writing, editing and
proofreading; contributed articles to KNOW, Magazine for Paralegals,
NOVUS/AAPi
. Co-wrote CLE seminar script "Social Security Disability Practice and
Procedure: What Every Attorney and Paralegal Should Know"
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Book Project: Writing and Publishing My book "Walnuts On My Bookshelf:
2012-13 Memories of Living in Communist Russia"; marketing, promotion,
personal appearances, book programs and signings, presentations, teaching
classes, working on digital format for the ebook edition
State Farm Insurance Companies---Operations Center, Birmingham, AL
10/2012
. Independent review of homeowners insurance claims for class
action; identifying Hurricane Ike claims and use of the company's
product in question
. Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
11/2012
. Review and Evaluation of the Barron's Educational Book "Learn
German The Fast and Fun Way," by Dr. P. Graves and recommended how
to improve the quality of scholarship, writing style, accuracy,
size, coverage and to make the textbook more competitive and
marketable
Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC Birmingham, AL
2002-07/2012
Civil Litigation Paralegal, Commercial Law
. Extensive legal research; drafted memos to keep team attorneys updated
as for discovered treating doctors, non-parties and recommended
entities to be subpoenaed, deposed
. Drafted pleadings, prepared subpoenas, requested, reviewed and
summarized records; updated subpoena index chart; investigated
opposing parties' employment, medical, other records and cross-
referenced same with client-produced documents
. Significantly contributed to handling and eventually settling to the
client's satisfaction product liability case of more than one
thousand six hundred and fifty plaintiffs;
. Contributed to satisfactory solution of the E-Verify program and
declaratory injunction and no-compete cases; created database of
cases relating to SCA, Stored Communications Act and ECPA, Electronic
Communications Privacy Act and subpoena record requests from social
networks
. Monitored discovery deadlines, compliance with scheduling orders,
implementation of protective orders, managed voluminous document
productions and redacted records
. Assisted case attorneys with interviewing clients' personnel by
visiting on-site plants
. Actively assisted with e-discovery by reviewing ESI, Electronically
Stored Information, selecting responsive documents to be produced;
summarized the same and drafted memos
. Created numerous timeline charts of products and history of sales;
requested and reviewed MSHA, OSHA, DHHS and FOIA records
. Significantly contributed to product liability, pharmaceutical, drug
injury, drug misbranding, multidistrict litigation, misrepresentation,
record on appeal and other cases to be dismissed
. Drafted exhibit list indices; set up depositions and summarized the
same; held regular telephone conferences with law clerks and court
staff to monitor discovery.
EDUCATION/RELEVANT TRAINING
Bachelor Degree, Major: English, Minor: French
Izmail State Teachers' College, Ukraine, USSR
Paralegal Training Certificate, National Center for Paralegal Training,
Atlanta, GA
ABA-Approved Program
. Regularly attended Alabama Association of Paralegals, Inc. CLE
seminars and monthly presentations
. Attended client's training, presentations and seminars related to
vital litigation issues and compliance with federal regulations, e.g.,
FDA, Medicaid, Medicare, SEC.
LANGUAGES: native Russian, intermediate French, native Ukrainian,
intermediate German, basic Latin, native Bulgarian, intermediate Serbo-
Croatian, basic Romanian
Certifications and Accreditations
Certified and accredited immigration court interpreter and translator
COMPUTER SKILLS
. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, WordPerfect, Summation, Alabama State
Judicial Information System/Alacourt.com, PACER, IDEX, Accurint,
Westlaw, WestlawNext, LexisNexis, Novell Applications, PC DocsOpen,
CaseLogistix, Ringtail Case Management Systems
HONORS & AWARDS
2008-Winner, Alabama Media Professionals Communications Contest, 1st
Place/Web Content
2012-Honorable Mention, Alabama Media Professionals' Contest, Social Media
Glossary and WW II Encyclopedic Dictionary
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
Alabama Association of Paralegals, Inc.
Alabama Media Professionals
Vestavia Hills Rotary Club
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