Assistant Service

DONALD A. ZREHIGIAN

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Newbury Park, California 91320

Cell: 805-***-****

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SUMMARY

Legal paraprofessional with 25+ years of experience in corporate business and litigation, with both in-

house and outside counsel. Exercises exceptional judgment and possesses excellent communications

skills. Recognized for easily adapting to independently coordinating projects or working in a team

environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VENOCO, INC., Carpinteria, CA 2003-Present

Oil & Gas Exploitation, Exploration & Production

Senior Paralegal

Support General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel; acting administrator of all insurance, non-

insurance, employee, class action and potential litigation; created and maintained litigation Histories.

Attended depositions and mediations.

Research and implement plan for streamlining and maintaining corporate and subsidiary records.

Corporate liaison with outside counsel on litigation and due diligence matters.

Create, coordinate and maintain reports concerning significant corporate contracts in compliance with

Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

Researched and recommended overhaul of corporate master service agreements.

Company System Administrator for Serengeti Tracker, which aided in developing plan to reduce

legal costs.

Tasked with bringing Company into e-Discovery readiness.

Member of Special Incident Response Team.

COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., Calabasas, CA 1999-2003

Mortgage Banking

Senior Paralegal, Assistant Vice President

Participated in hands-on litigation, assisting in-house counsel group that represented the Corporation

in all litigation filed within the state of California, resulting in significant savings to the Company.

Drafted pleadings, motions, written discovery, and meet and confer letters, in general business and

wrongful foreclosure litigation; conducted and generated legal and factual research.

Responsible for coordinating judgment collection.

Created instructional material on the subject of the foreclosure process.

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Los Angeles, CA 1989-1999

Fully Integrated Major Oil Corporation

Legal Analyst, Senior Paralegal, Paralegal

Acted as liaison between outside counsel and corporate clients; responsible for overseeing insurance

litigation matters and responding to government and third party subpoenas.

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Coordinated discovery responses, attended depositions, supervised junior paralegals and clerical staff

on various projects. Coordinated with information and technical service analysts to create and

implement various on-line reports.

Advised client groups on non-legal matters, which eventually developed into several successful

projects to recover corporate funds from delinquent parties.

Created on-line internal document checklist for litigation group, and corporate employees’ checklist

for outside counsel, to serve as points of contact and to facilitate the process of document and

information retrieval for in-house counsel.

Participated in creating corporate paralegal matrix to reflect current responsibilities and activities, and

presented final report to General Counsel. Company adopted 85% of matrix and report.

Represented company in small claims court and counseled non-legal personnel on how to present

case in same forum. Maintained high success rate.

Developed and expanded paralegal methods, procedures and responsibilities in providing litigation

support, resulting in better service to client by reducing excess paperwork.

Possessed settlement authority in insured cases up to $20,000.

D. G. BROOKES, INC. - TUTTLE & TAYLOR 1985 - 1989

MURCHSION & CUMMING, Los Angeles, CA

Independent Law Firms

Senior Paralegal - Paralegal

Supervised several complex litigation matters for major oil company client.

Prepared for and participated in price discrimination/anti-trust trials.

Provided litigation support for entire professional liability division of firm.

UNOCAL CORPORATION, Los Angeles, CA 1982-1985

Fully Integrated Major Oil Corporation

Paralegal

Performed legal and factual research, analyzed and organized evidential information.

Created economic studies for major litigation (specifically MDL-150), as well as for toxic tort, anti-

trust, environmental and copyright law litigation.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Certificate, Environmental Law, Short Program, UCLA

Certificate, Corporations/Litigation, Attorney Assistant Training Program, UCLA

ASSOCIATIONS

Ventura County Paralegal Association, VCPA Liaison to Ventura County Bar

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