LANINE R. VALDEZ

ad2ree@r.postjobfree.com 212-***-**** Bridgeton, NJ 08302

Summary

Experienced Paralegal with excellent client relation skills, seeking to secure a position within a corporate legal department, to contribute and improve the efficiency and performance inside the organization and serve as an important part of a team. Where working knowledge of legal terminology, general law and legal proceedings is pertained.

Skills

Strong organizational skills, possessing the ability to prioritize multiple assignments allowing for maximum workflow. Excellent research, written, investigative and excellent communication skills. Works well with team or independently. Able to manage tasks based on attorney and client needs. Excellent judgment and decision-making abilities. Provides a prominent level of confidentiality, upholds the ethical standards of the legal profession. Capable of working quickly and accurately under pressure to successfully meet short deadlines, with adherence to budgets. Advanced knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, MS Access, PowerPoint, PDF Advanced, Aderant Expert Image, Expert Billing, Workshare Compare, Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat, Word Perfect, Orion, Elite, Big Hand, NetDocuments, Needles, Mimecast, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Amicus Attorney, Adobe Photoshop, ADP Payroll, Cisco, Citrix, Rainmaker, Faxfinder, LanFax pdfDocs, eDOCS DM, LanTalk NET, compareDOCS, experience with State and Federal courts, Data Entry, HTML, Italian and Spanish skills, Java, IManage, Walz, Hummingbird, Worldox, Chrome River, Zoom, Skype for Business, WebEx, MS Teams, Tabs 3 Billing, Docsmit, Pro-Law, Pacer, LegalPro, Expert Time, Dropbox, Expert Browser, Dictaphone, Abacus, Google Suite, Typing 85 wpm, Legal Research and Writing, Notary Public, Proofreading, Concordance, GEMS, Sharepoint, PaperWork, GMEI and Box.

Experience

Paralegal Axiom Law/Google - New York, NY 05/2023 - Present

Prepare reports, correspondence, and memoranda in support of product counsel as needed.

Manage, track, and organize privacy related matters related to legal advertising.

Review and summarize requests from internal teams for legal approval and signoff.

Research specific legal and factual details to assist with internal and external communications related to legal matters, along with assistance to other projects as assigned.

Proofread documents, review contracts, and ensure compliance with the company’s legal policies, procedures, and internal controls.

Provide basic and intermediate legal opinions to product counsel for contract provisions and data tracking related to privacy and legal compliance.

Review data and ads legal internal policies in connection with proposed technology initiatives that require approval of marketing presentations.

Manages the annual legal privacy shield process and policies, document review, accuracy and confirmation.

Draft, revise and track privacy data protection provisions and related corporate compliance agreements.

Paralegal Phyton Talent Advisors/PIMCO - New York, NY 06/2021 - 03/2023

Supported the corporate governance and legal entity management team in all governance matters.

Compiled, managed, and controlled corporate documents related to officers and directors, parent ownership structures, tax identification mergers, acquisitions, and legal entity names.

Managed legal operations and ensured the automation of workflow was in collaboration with centralized information.

Organized legal entity corporate compliance data and activities, including legal entity formation, liquidation, and dissolution.

Pro-actively planned and coordinated with cross-functional teams to effectively support the corporate structure;

Maintained legal entity records, including minute books, and managed outside regional counsel on legal entity matters.

Submitted LEI registrations in accordance with legal entity identification verification.

Coordinated with internal teams for data maintenance and would assist with corporate restructuring activities;

Draft and reviewed documents related to entities including formation documents, board and meeting minutes, and other compliance documentation.

Managed outside regional counsel on legal entity matters and SEC filings.

Coordinated and managed team projects and presented to stakeholders, to effectively collaborate on various deals and related projects.

Updated and managed legal entity data, including maintenance of database of subsidiaries along with other corporate records.

Assisted with internal and external requests related to organizational structuring, director information and legal entity formation documents.

Paralegal Meyner & Landis LLP - Newark, NJ 10/2020 - 06/2021

Assisted with negotiating client’s employee union contracts, prepared, and summarized litigation documents as it relates to pleadings and discovery regarding employment claims and disputes.

Draft and summarized non-disclosure employment agreements, employment equipment contracts and employment contract correspondence for review and signature.

Worked with HR manager regarding labor law disputes, tracking workers compensation claims and layoffs;

Monitored and managed various requests for employment records, with conducting legal research of local employment law developments in reference to an organizations policy and practices.

Analyzed data and answered all electronic inboxes for inquiries of new employment law matters;

Review, analyze and organize documents in pending litigation and transactional matters related to conducting EEOC charges and responses.

Performed administrative duties, calendars hearings and deadlines, organizes case files.

Provided support in the litigation and debt recovery process, opens new files, processes invoices.

Conducted investigation, legal research, and initial case assessment.

Draft and prepares pleadings and discovery documents, such as legal briefs, summons and complaints, answers, interrogatories and stipulations, and files them with the court.

Coordinates and gather relevant information from a variety of sources for trial preparation, including creating and organizing trial exhibits and visual aid.

Prepares discovery requests and responses, conducts legal research using Westlaw.

Created and organized files by ensuring all legal documents, index, and labels accordingly.

Accurately and expeditiously transcribed various legal documents for attorneys.

Assist attorneys in communicating with clients and preparing correspondence.

Input attorneys daily time for client billing purposes.

Compile, proofread and edit drafts of contracts, licenses policies and other legal documents.

Legal Assistant McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC - Roseland, NJ 03/2019 - 10/2020

Performed legal research and analyzed client documentation, prepared subpoenas for trial, draft and edit order to show cause, notice of appearance and stipulations.

Prepared legal contracts, bankruptcy, and tax forms for attorneys.

Obtained case information from the court, draft and filed petitions, proof of claim and files briefs.

Reviewed and finalized correspondence format memoranda, reviewed, and sorted incoming mail.

Scheduled meetings and depositions made travel arrangements, maintained structure of comprehensive files and case index.

Proofread legal documents, organized emails, submitted expense reimbursements, e-filed pleadings, and discovery documents, maintained structure of file indexes and case law.

Served as the administrative point of contact, processed invoices.

Prepared and finalized client engagement letters, submitted new client-matter information into database.

Maintained attorney calendar, organized maintenance, and control of client files.

Organized mailings, maintains attorney billing records.

Legal Secretary Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd - New York, NY 02/2011 - 03/2019

Conciliation of pre-trial memoranda, performed discovery, draft and finalized deposition and pretrial reports, preparation of legal pleadings and discovery documents, including verified answers, notice to admit, motions, interrogatories, order to show cause, RJI forms, stipulations, general releases and subpoenas, proofread reply briefs, contracts, correspondence and court orders, organized, entered and calculated attorneys billing each month prepared and processed expenses for reimbursement.

Maintenance of dockets, attorney’s calendars, and travel schedules performed extensive client contact, managed diaries, scheduled and organized client meetings.

Made travel arrangements for attorneys, and maintained client files, prepared legal documents and court filings related to asbestos Workers' Compensation cases from beginning of case through trial.

Retrieval of medical and other records pertaining to case, development of responsive discovery documents, use of e-file for filing pleadings, through the courts electronic system, assisted attorneys with memorandum, legal files, and trial preparation.

Transcribed dictation, generated Court forms, performed legal research using software to investigate case status, provided timely and accurate processing of all work requests, organizes litigation database with hard copies for filing systematically.

Paralegal Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer LLP - New York, NY 12/2003 - 12/2010

Generated legal reports using excel worksheets, performance of discovery and pleadings.

Prepared legal documentation, reviewed privileged documents that may be pertinent to trial.

Heavy dictation transcription monitored and coordinated settlement contracts and general releases.

Reviewed corporate documentation and record books for corporate financing, intake of client information and verified parties in proceeding.

Obtained claim information and medical authorizations from client, and ascertained issues in dispute under direction of attorney, determined claim status, and assisted in filing claims with Division of Workers Compensation, assist attorneys in evaluation of employer and/or insurance carrier liability.

Preparation of clients IME appointment, prepared authorizations for release of information and Interrogatories, draft pleadings and discovery documents including, Summons & Complaint, Memoranda of Law, Bill of Particulars and Motions, researched legal questions/issues and draft Notices of Deposition.

Scheduled pre-hearing and settlement conference and notified all parties.

Investigated automobile tags, performed insurance and title searches through the state's Motor Vehicle Department, regarding personal injury matters, scheduled and confirmed court reporter(s) and interpreter preparation of subpoenas, and summarized deposition transcripts.

Education and Training

Purdue University Global Lafayette, IN 09/2021

Criminal Justice Studies

Borough Manhattan College New York, NY 08/2011

Criminal Justice Studies

New York Paralegal School New York, NY 09/2003

Paralegal Studies

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