Shelli H. Crowder

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Atlanta, GA 30328

ad35mj@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 601-***-****

Experienced litigation paralegal with strong management skills who works well independently and prioritizes tasks assigned based on time sensitive deadlines, high level of professionalism and confidentiality.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Dennis Corry Smith & Dixon October 2023-Present

Insurance Defense/Large Trucking Paralegal

Monitor pre-litigation matters and advise attorneys and legal coordinators of status and make sure deadlines are met.

Identify any law enforcement interaction with accident involving client and send Open Records Requests to law enforcement for accident reports, photos, body cam and dash cam videos.

Summarize any videos received from Open Records Requests to law enforcement.

Identify potential non-party providers from which to request medical, insurance, employment and prescription records and create index of same to follow status of response.

Summarize medical records received, or any other record received in response to the Open Records Request.

Calculate deadlines for attorneys and legal coordinators calendars.

Work under the supervision of the legal coordinators.

Stites & Harbison PLLC January 2022-September 2023

Atlanta, GA

Commercial Litigation Paralegal/Legal Malpractice (transferred with Commercial Lit Group from CSKL)

·Prepare potential exhibits for hearings, depositions, and trial.

·Research information relating to potential parties from which to request information germane to case.

·Preparation of non-party requests to unrelated parties to case to obtain information relevant to prior acts or medical history of opposing parties.

·Prepare deposition, hearing, and trial notebooks.

·Research case law cited in briefs and organized for use during hearings.

·Preparation of indexes to any potential exhibits or case law needed in preparation for depositions, hearings, or trials.

·Draft medical records chronology of opposing party when needed.

·Perform research on Westlaw relating to opposing party through people search.

·Additional research and drafting of documents pursuant to counsel request.

Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell April 2021-January 2022

Atlanta, GA

Commercial Litigation Paralegal/Legal Malpractice

·Prepare potential exhibits for hearings, depositions, and trial.

·Research information relating to potential parties from which to request information germane to case.

·Preparation of non-party requests to unrelated parties to case to obtain information relevant to prior acts or medical history of opposing parties.

·Prepare deposition, hearing, and trial notebooks.

·Research case law cited in briefs and organized for use during hearings.

·Preparation of indexes to any potential exhibits or case law needed in preparation for depositions, hearings, or trials.

·Draft medical records chronology of opposing party when needed.

·Perform research on Westlaw relating to opposing party through people search.

·Additional research and drafting of documents pursuant to counsel request.

Peters & Monyak LLC May 2019-April 2021

Atlanta, GA

Medical Malpractice Defense Paralegal

Assist counsel in medical malpractice claims.

Identify medical providers of plaintiff and prepare non-party requests.

Prepare production logs.

Initial drafts of responsive documents in discovery

Perform research on expert witnesses.

Work with experts regarding review of materials.

Prepare hearing, deposition, and trial notebooks.

Prepare trial exhibits.

Work with litigation technology company in preparing for trial.

Attend and assist at trial.

Prepare medical chronologies.

Prepare medical specials calculations.

Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske October 2017 to May 2019

Atlanta, GA

Insurance Defense Paralegal

Assist counsel with claims filed by insured parties.

Analyze claim file to identify all medical records produced by claimant.

Identify non-parties to prepare requests for production of documents utilized in discovery.

Investigate claimant prior civil and criminal claims for potential settlement negotiations.

Prepare open records requests.

Redaction of proprietary information from client documents

Analysis of billing records of claimant and create medical specials chart identifying overbilled treatment and billing claim not relevant to alleged injuries.

Draft initial discovery requests

Initial draft of discovery responses

Work with experts and investigators to provide information and documents as to scope of assignment.

Swift Currie

Atlanta, GA April 2016 to October 2017

Insurance Defense Paralegal

Initial review of claim file and summarizing of claim issues.

Coordinate with counsel on scheduling on depositions of witnesses.

Interview of witnesses

Coordinate with Court on hearings and trial dates.

Identify non-parties and prepare discovery requests to obtain records valuable to discovery and client.

Investigation of claimants and witnesses to identify any prior litigation and/or criminal actions of same to create strategy benefiting client.

Review and summarize medical records of claimant.

Prepare for hearings and trial.

Hawkins Parnell July 2015-January 2016

Atlanta, GA

(Firm wide lay off)

National Asbestos Litigation Paralegal

Coordinate with local counsel regarding discovery issues, pleadings and filings as needed as national counsel for asbestos client.

Participate in large document review through Relativity and prepare large number of documents for production through ShareFile and Dropbox as national litigation counsel.

Create Excel spreadsheets for document productions.

Actively code documents for responsiveness to discovery requests from “first pass” review through final production delivery stage.

Assisting counsel in the implementation of and responses to lawsuits, electronic data search and production and document review.

Supervise file clerk on electronic case file document loading, preparation of documents for hearings and depositions.

Carlton Fields June 2015

Atlanta, GA

(Temporary position)

Litigation Paralegal

Assist in preparing privilege logs and redacting of documents in preparation of new cases received by counsel.

Balch & Bingham March 2008 – May 2015

Atlanta, GA

(Firm wide lay off)

Products Liability and Business Litigation Paralegal

Work extensively with E-Discovery team to achieve maximum efficiency of large document review projects.

Participate in large document review through various vendor-hosted review platforms: (i.e. concordance, relativity, etc.)

Actively code documents for responsiveness to discovery requests from “first pass” review through final production delivery stage

Coordinate with third-party project managers to: run search parameters on document sets to cull large document volumes.

Assisting counsel in the implementation of and responses to lawsuits, electronic data search and production and document review

Assist in creation of documents, exhibits and all areas of trial preparation.

Investigation of parties and witnesses

Work with courts on scheduling hearings and trials and coordinating oversized exhibits for trials.

Supervise document productions with production team.

Supervise and coordinate with legal assistants regarding large case files, determining setup relating to large productions, production logs and documents produced by opposing counsel for ease of use during course of litigation.

Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer and Risley February 2007-March 2008

Atlanta, GA

Patent Litigation Paralegal

Assist counsel in patent litigation by organizing and preparing documents to assist in claims, coordinating receipt of protected documents from other parties, indexing of confidential

documents.

Thompson Hine LLP, March 2006 – February 2007

Atlanta, GA

Business Litigation Paralegal (transition with Partner from Balch & Bingham)

Assist counsel in the implementation of and responses to lawsuits, filings with courts and communications with parties.

Balch & Bingham February 2005 - February 2006

Atlanta, GA

Business Litigation Paralegal (left to join Partner and litigation group at Thompson Hine)

See Balch & Bingham experience above.

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz August 2004-February 2005

Atlanta, GA

Intellectual Property Assistant (Temporary Position)

·Assisted counsel in patent and trademark prosecution (temp. position – moving from Mississippi BDBCB office – but no litigation positions available – filled in for assistant on maternity leave until she returned

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Bekowitz August 2003-August 2004

Jackson, MS

Asbestos Litigation Paralegal

·Assist in monitoring a significant number of asbestos litigation matters relating to numerous clients and identify production deadlines.

·Prepare documents for production in responses to requests for discovery.

Watklns Ludlam Winter & Stennis PA (n/k/a Jones Walker) (moved with litigation group from McGlinchey Stafford)

Jackson, MS 2003

Construction, Products Liability and Consumer Lending Paralegal

·Assist construction clients in preparation of claim documents.

·Prepare initial budget for construction cases for Insurance Company

·Assist counsel in inspection of property in construction issues.

·Travel to home offices of clients and assist in review of relevant material to produce in construction and consumer lending matters.

·Oversee opposing counsel review of construction and products liability documents.

·Attend circuit trials all over the State of Mississippi and assist counsel with exhibits.

·Research on witnesses for additional trial preparation questions.

·Assist product liability experts in inspections.

·Interview witnesses and/or officers to obtain relevant information relating to accidents.

·Prepare breakdown of accident reports using matrix provided by State and utilized in accident reports.

·Prepare privilege logs and documents for production.

McGlinchey Stafford 1997-2002

Jackson, MS

Construction, Products Liability and Consumer Lending Paralegal

·Assist construction clients in preparation of claim documents.

·Prepare initial budget for construction cases for Insurance Company

·Assist counsel in inspection of property in construction issues.

·Travel to home offices of clients and assist in review of relevant material to produce in construction and consumer lending matters.

·Oversee opposing counsel review of construction and products liability documents.

·Attend circuit trials all over the State of Mississippi and assist counsel with exhibits.

·Research on witnesses for additional trial preparation questions.

·Assist product liability experts in inspections.

·Interview witnesses and/or officers to obtain relevant information relating to accidents.

·Prepare breakdown of accident reports using matrix provided by State and utilized in accident reports.

·Prepare privilege logs and documents for production.

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz 1996-1997

Jackson, MS

Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Paralegal

·Assist counsel in incorporation of companies and updating any minutes needed each year.

·Keep chronology of all corporations represented.

·Gathering information relating to any facilities in locations where Certificates of Need are sought by opposing counsel.

Watkins & Eager 1994-1996

Jackson, MS

Products Liability Paralegal - Automotive

·Assist counsel in requesting all documents from automotive client and reviewing for privilege any documents relating to product with alleged deficiencies.

·Draft subpoenas for records to medical providers.

·Prepare Open Records Requests to Department of Public Safety for all documents relating to alleged accident and alleged injuries.

·Assist in preparation for hearings, depositions, and trials by preparation of documents relevant to case and relevant research.

Steen Reynolds Dalehite & Curry (n/k/a Steen Reynolds & Dalehite, LLP) 1992-1994

Jackson, MS

Medical Malpractice & Insurance Defense Paralegal

·Assist counsel in defense of medical practitioners and insurance companies.

·Assist in preparation of subpoenas to obtain information relevant to cases.

·Travel to photo shoot of internal devices to be used in trial.

·Preparing documents for trials

·Assist counsel at trial of case.

Knight & Knight 1990-1992

Jackson, MS

Tax Paralegal and Office Manager

·Analyze records of clients to determine which expenses are allowed in filing of late tax returns.

·Assist in preparation of tax documents.

·Order all supplies.

·Enter time for attorneys.

·Prepare corporate quarterly tax reports.

·Transcription of attorney tapes

EDUCATION

1987-1990 Paralegal Studies Program, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Relativity Database, TABS billing system, electronic ShareFile system, working knowledge of Westlaw and LexisNexis case research, electronic case filing with Courts, electronic data bates labeling, extraction, and redactions and real estate property searches.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Former Member of Mississippi Association of Legal Assistants

Former Treasurer of Mississippi Association of Legal Assistants

Former Student Liaison of Mississippi Association of Legal Assistants

References available upon request.

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