Management Project Manager
Resume:
MICHAEL DEGUZMAN
Carteret, New Jersey 07008
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SUMMARY
Successful results-oriented senior legal clerk with 20 years of intense litigation and ediscovery management experience within the corporate and securities industry
Strong interpersonal, project development, technology, leadership, motivational, planning and implementation skills resulting in consistent achievement of strategic goals and management objectives
Very knowledgeable of the litigation and discovery processes including forensics, data collection, networking, data processing, coding and scanning
Work in connection with various courts, governmental agencies, law enforcement and other administrative bodies
Team oriented player with a Certificate of Paralegal Studies from an ABA program
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ALLEN MILLER LLP, New York, NY 02/15 – 03/15
Paralegal / Contractor
Prepare various deposition outlines and exhibits in regards to a multi-billion dollar money management litigation of a large financial institution
Handle managing attorney duties and court filings in the New York State Supreme Court
Assist in scheduling and structuring of daily duties
Worked with outside vendors and local counsel in regards to electronic conversion of exhibits, scanning, coding and duplicating
FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP, New York, NY 02/99 – 11/13
Legal Clerk / EDiscovery
Served as a Senior litigation legal clerk and project manager
Oversaw all electronic discovery and document management within assigned litigation department matters
Developed various case management systems in regards to document collection and production procedures as well as the conversion of numerous multimillion page productions, coding, scanning and OCRing
Liaise with court reporters in regards to depositions and exhibits loading using LiveNote software
Provided legal and technical support to attorneys engaged in firm related intellectual properties, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, real estate, asset management, and securities enforcement matters
In charge of the management and assignment structure of the daily duties for discovery attorney’s, litigation clerks, Discover Ready, ediscovery associates and paralegal contractors
Handled multiple attorney review processes, privilege logs, bankruptcy filing procedures and all standard electronic discovery for the bankruptcy and restructuring group
Managed and maintained all pleadings, correspondence, client materials collected in response to document requests and subpoenas using in-house electronic docketing system, Pacer, ECF, Concordance, Relativity and other various web based document management systems
Worked directly with partners and managing attorney’s in preparing for depositions, oral arguments, document review, trial preparation in particular preparing war rooms including scanning and imaging of all plaintiffs and defendants trial exhibits, testimony exhibits, and working with outside vendors in preparing trial graphics exhibits to be used in court
Expert in bluebooking, cite checking, quote checking and preparation of briefs, memorandums, tables of authorities, table of contents, compendiums, appendixes and other related materials to be electronically filed and served in conjunction court procedures and judges rules
Expert in Concordance, Summation and Relativity for document review and document management, LiveNote, Outlook, West Law, Lexis-Nexis, Best Authority, iManage, Sharepoint
Secondment to Goldman Sachs assisting asset management group, private wealth management group, commodities and derivatives group within the in-house legal department
Responsible for the preparation and review of various monthly fund subscriptions and related due diligence assignments
Assisted in preparing weekly meeting minutes and agendas
Attended weekly conference calls and training events
Acted as liaison to high profile clients as well as with other outside government agencies with regards to document, evidence collection and related discovery process
WARNER-LAMBERT COMPANY, Morris Plains, NJ 06/98 – 02/99
Paralegal / Contractor
Assistant to Vice President and Associate General Counsel within the regulatory affairs group
Responsible for maintaining FDA, DEA, and state regulated licenses
Attending weekly meetings and prepared agendas
Developed new data entry system using Excel to record and index all licenses and documents relevant to governmental affairs and state regulated licensing
Involved in document review regarding various regulatory and intellectual property matters
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, New York, NY 06/97 – 05/98
Paralegal / Case Assistant
Case assistant to the senior manager of the intellectual property group within the litigation department in charge of all matters and responsibilities relevant to IP litigation
Assisted the IP team in representing various clients regarding patent infringement and trademark lawsuits from discovery leading up to major trials including pretrial discovery logistics, deposition preparation, trial support services, expert discovery, trial exhibit preparation, and court reporters
Prepared and cite checked briefs using West Law and Lexis-Nexis, preparing compendiums, appendixes and other accompanying filings
Responsible for recording and maintaining all pleadings and correspondence in electronic and hard copy format using various court docket and database systems and in-house record filing system
Handled document production procedures including document collection from client offices and searching relevant patents and trademarks from USPTO and ITC website
EDUCATION
Certificate of Completion, Paralegal Studies Program – ABA Approved Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Bachelor of Science in Pre-Law, Political Science – St. John’s University, New York, NY
Minor in Information Systems
COMPUTER SKILLS
Received Certificate of Completion from Chubb Institute of Technology for Networking, Concordance, Relativity, West Law, Lexis-Nexis, iManage, Legal Key, Carpe Diem, Pacer, LiveNote, Nuance, WordPerfect, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Adobe Editor.
ACTIVITIES
Fried Frank Football Team Lawyers League
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