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214-***-****

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Dallas, Texas 75287

SUMMARY

Highly skilled and experienced office professional with superior communication, administrative, and organizational skills. Detailed oriented, efficient, and capable with over 20 years of experience working in legal and governmental offices with extensive experience at managing deadlines, drafting reports and business correspondence, reviewing documents, entering time in payroll software, scheduling meetings, updating spreadsheets, and preparing presentations. Exceptional leadership and management skills.

SKILLS

Time Management

Prioritization

Stress Tolerance

Work Ethic

Workflow Management

Process/Procedures Development

Teamwork

Problem-Solving

Written and Verbal Communication

MS Office Proficient

Legal Brief Preparation

Legal Research

Legal Writing

Trained in the Air Force as a biomedical equipment specialist.

Pilot License.

EXPERIENCE

CONTRACT DOCUMENT REVIEWER 2010 to 2024

Multiple Document Review Firms - Texas And Virginia

Legal document review in multiple civil actions in federal and state courts or on behalf of federal agencies

Claims covered a variety of legal issues including negligence tort actions, loan disputes, breach of contract, shareholder derivative suits, civil RICO, anticompetitive and antitrust investigations and suits, patent infringement, data breach incidents, medical mal-practice, pharmaceutical review, fraud, and environmental claims, as well as other legal disputes

Duties included analysis and research to identify relevant documents and coding for responsiveness, legal issues, privilege, confidentiality, PII/SHI, as well as preparing privilege log entries and performing redactions

Superior work performance frequently led to assignment to Quality Control teams with over 90% accuracy.

PARALEGAL/IP CONSULTANT 2015 to 2016

Intak Lee & Associates - Fairfax, Virginia

Drafted and advised on patent applications and developing IP strategy on behalf of NABAS Group, Inc

Prepared memos and PowerPoint presentations for marketing, project updates, patent applications, and prosecution status

Prepared office correspondence and legal documents relating to litigation and transactional legal work for non-IP clients including drafting pleadings, discovery requests, and legal memos.

Filed pleadings and paperwork with court clerk to meet strict deadlines.

Researched applicable statutes, codes, regulations, ordinances, and precedent cases.

Advised and formulated monetizing strategy for commercial applications and industrialization of IP portfolio.

Communicated with witnesses regarding deposition scheduling and preparation.

Provided administrative support such as answering phones or scheduling appointments.

Contacted witnesses and scheduled interviews and evaluations.

Drafted correspondence to clients and other attorneys.

Advised clients on procedural matters related to their cases.

Drafted discovery responses including interrogatories and requests for production of documents.

Set up conference room for meetings with clients and investors and planned events for investors as well as preparing PowerPoint presentations.

PATENT EXAMINER 2014 to 2015

United States Patent and Trademark Office - Alexandria, Virginia

Evaluated patent applications for patentability of claimed inventions in the medical imaging technical arts.

Analyzed arguments raised in office action responses and determined merit of arguments for patentability.

Prepared reply briefs in appeals to respond to applicant briefs arguing allowance.

Coordinated applicant interviews to discuss arguments for patent allowance.

Reviewed patent applications for compliance with legal requirements and technical specifications.

Conducted research on existing patents, scientific literature, and other sources of information.

PARALEGAL/IP CONSULTANT 2000 to 2014

Multiple Law Firms - Texas and Louisiana

Performed patent prosecution duties for multiple clients, drafting applications, responding to office actions of the USPTO and EPO, preparing appeal briefs in patent applications with a final rejection, and achieved a 90% success rate in the pre-appeal brief stage of final rejections.

Conducted legal research and drafted motions and briefs in patent prosecution cases and litigation cases.

Analyzed patent claims including preparing patent claim charts

Successfully developed winning technical and legal arguments for patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation.

Prepared clients for depositions, drafted discovery requests and responses, and drafted pleadings.

Supported litigation by organizing files and exhibits, preparing deposition summaries, writing memos regarding expected witness' trial testimony and pre-trial depositions, and creating witness binders and trial notebooks.

Organized client meetings to discuss litigation or prosecution strategies.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Tulane Law School - New Orleans, LA

Juris Doctor

Honors: Cum laude

Environmental Law

University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

U.S. Air Force/U.S. Air Force Reserve, Captain, Logistics Readiness Officer

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Highly skilled in E-Discovery document review with experience using several legal review tools including Summation, Clearwell, Kroll, Relativity, Lumix, and Xera software platforms.

Professional experience extends to patents, trademarks, copyrights, criminal, bankruptcy, personal injury, torts, toxic torts, products liability, environmental, social security, employment, contract, ERISA, successions, medical malpractice, property, family law, landlord-tenant, workers' compensation, oil and gas, and contract legal areas.

Knowledge of litigation actions in both state and federal courts.

Competent with various legal research databases including Westlaw and LexisNexis.

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