Assistant Manager

Kimberly M. Edwards

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EXPERIENCE

Goldberg, Finnegan & Mester LLC Silver Spring, Maryland

Special Projects Paralegal & Case Manager for British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Settlements August 2010 – January 2013

Submitted $8 million of successfully awarded BP Deepwater Horizon Claims for businesses affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Submitted hundreds of pending claims worth $14-$20 million

Reviewed and analyzed Oil Pollution Act, Deepwater Horizon Joint Settlement Agreement and Settlement Formulas and Methodologies

Review and analyzed financial information and evaluated Deepwater Horizon Claims and Settlement Offers for businesses affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Prepared, submitted and successfully negotiated counter settlement offers ranging from twice to more than ten times proposed settlement amounts

Prepared Client Settlement Memoranda; participated in Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee strategic conference calls.

O’Melveny & Myers LLP Washington D.C.

Receptionist and Paralegal June 1999 – November 2009

Supported Ac Pera Price Fixing, SEC, FINRA, ERISA and Sub-prime mortgage lending litigation

Document review of Ac Pera and Price Fixing documents

Trial support of Antitrust case; review, edit, cite check, revise and comments of final pre-trial brief, compile exhibit list and exhibit binders; review, distribute and maintain copies daily trial transcripts

M&A 2nd Request review of foreign language corporate documents for relevancy

M&A 2nd Request French to English translation of corporate documents.

Aspen Systems Corporation Rockville, Maryland

Paralegal and later Supervisory Paralegal March 1987 August 1995

Relocated to Dallas, Texas; Maintained Pleadings and Tracked Motions for Predatory Lending Case involving more than 20 major commercial lenders to a prominent Dallas Oil & Gas Companies

Relocated to Miami, Florida to support ongoing U.S. Attorney’s Office and State of Florida Settlement negotiations of environmental case

Relocated to Bath, Maine for review and collection of Bath Iron Works documents for contract renewal dispute.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Washington, D.C

Assistant Librarian for then corporate and personal tax practice 1984-1985

The Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

Tutor for beginning and intermediate French students 1984-1985

Hale, Russell & Gray Washington, D.C.

Project assistant for airline antitrust litigation in discovery; document review for production and depositions 1984

PRIOR EDUCATION

Investment Banking Institute Washington D.C.

Intensive 4-week financial modeling and valuation training program April 2014

Overview of company valuations utilizing (i) comparable public company analysis, (ii) precedent transactions analysis and (iii) discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis

Overview of integrated financial statements projection model, LBO model, accretion/dilution merger models, operational and capital structure sensitivities within models and data tables for sensitivity analysis

U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School Washington, D.C.

Major: Paralegal Studies 2007-2008

The Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

Major: French 1984-1986

ADDITIONAL

Citizenship Award

Paralegal/Translator: 2008

O’Melveny & Myers LLP Pro Bono Honor Roll for Pro Bono translation work for asylum cases

Professional Certifications: 2006 TEF Certification/French Proficiency Exam, Alliance Française, Washington D.C. Programs: EDGAR, PACER, LEXIS NEXIS, WESTLAW, Summation and Concordance

Projects: Cite Checking, Attorney Directed Redaction, Transcript Summaries, Draft Legal Memoranda & Discovery Responses, Motion Tracking, Exhibit Lists, Binders and Tracking, Document Indexing and French to English translation

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