Kathy Yocum
Shippensburg, PA *****
717-***-**** (cell ph. #)
E-mail: ******@**.***
EMPLOYMENT
MARGOLIS EDELSTEIN Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Litigation Paralegal May 2014 – January 2015
Assigned to provide paralegal support in medical malpractice insurance defense cases, including preparing deposition summaries, obtaining, indexing and summarizing medical records, scheduling depositions and meetings with clients and expert witnesses, drafting discovery requests and responses; preparing subpoenas for medical records; preparing status reports; medical and legal research, maintaining attorney’s calendar, and assisting with trial preparation. (Insurance Defense) Note: I was laid off due to a firm wide staff downsizing.
DEVLIN ASSOCIATES – (Abel Personnel) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Legal Secretary August, 2013 and January 2014 – May 2014
Assigned to provide legal assistant/secretarial support, including transcription, answering the telephone,
scheduling depositions, preparing subpoenas, typing correspondence, pleadings, discovery requests and responses; organizing file materials; assisting with court filing; maintaining attorney’s calendar; ordering
office supplies and file organization. (Insurance Defense) Note: Devlin Associates closed their office in
Harrisburg, PA in mid-late 2014.
FORRY ULLMAN Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Legal Assistant/Legal Secretary October 2009- January 2011
Assigned to provide legal assistant/secretarial support, including maintaining attorney’s calendar, scheduling depositions and independent medical examinations; preparing correspondence, pleadings and discovery responses; obtaining investigative records and medical records; assisting with court filings, arbitration and trial preparation, ordering office supplies, file organization, and general office administrative work. (Insurance Defense) Note: Forry Ullman closed their Harrisburg office in late 2010. I worked for Forry Ullman in their Reading office for several months following the closure of their Harrisburg office.
MCNEES WALLACE & NURICK, LLC Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Litigation Paralegal September 1998 – August 2009
Assigned to provide paralegal support, including subpoenaing investigative records and medical records; obtaining, indexing and summarizing medical records; preparing discovery requests and responses; scheduling depositions and independent medical examinations; interviewing witnesses and clients in personal injury cases; preparing demand letters and assisting with trial preparation. (Defense, Family Law, Personal Injury)
EDUCATION
THE INSTITUTE FOR PARALEGAL TRAINING Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Certificates in Civil Litigation and Administrative Law
EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Bachelor’s Degree – Education
Member of Central Pennsylvania Paralegal Association; PA Certified Paralegal (Pa.C.P. - Keystone Alliance)
* PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT
From 3/2016 – 9/2016, I was employed with Lowe’s Home Improvement Store as a part-time Customer Service Associate in their Outside Lawn & Garden Center – approx. 20- 25 hr. per week. My position with Lowe’s was a “seasonal” position which ended in mid-September, 2016.
From 10/2016 – 1/2017, I was employed with The Bon-Ton as a part-time “seasonal” Sales Associate.
Certified Paralegal (Keystone Alliance of Paralegals)