CANDACE O’CONNOR

** ****** ******, ***** ******, NY10601

917-***-****; ad44mn@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Wellesley College, Wellesley MA; Bachelor of Arts, English/Political Science, June 1991 Harvard University, Cambridge MA; Masters of Education, June 1996 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Littman Krooks, Rye Brook, NY

January 2022- Present

Trusts and Estates/Elder Law Paralegal/Case Manager duties include: drafting correspondence and Health Care Directives, Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney; advising clients regarding Guardianship issues, attending document signings ; creating Estate Planning Binders for clients. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Rye Brook, NY January 2018- October 2019

Litigation Casualty Paralegal responsible for coordinating trial exhibits, review and analyze medical records for accuracy and completeness, setting up IME’s, drafting authorization letters, obtaining medical records. Morgan Stanley, New York, NY

March 2004-February 2005

Paralegal in Institutional Securities Litigation

Paralegal for all aspects of litigation support including third party subpoenas, levies/garnishments, assisted in the coordination of Law Division responses to regulatory and civil subpoenas, requests for documents and other papers, document review.

O’Melveny & Myers, New York, NY

November 2000-April 2002

Litigation Coordinator/ Senior Paralegal

Interviewed potential candidates for junior and senior paralegal positions; trained new paralegals in Westlaw, LexisNexis and cite-checking; chief paralegal and coordinator for two trials (SDNY and New York State Supreme Court); delegated assignments to junior paralegals; utilized law library and legal databases for legal research and Shepardizing; responsive for cite-checking and Bluebooking; summarized depositions; prepared deposition digests; conducted large-scale document productions; reviewed documents for responsiveness and privilege; communicated with vendors; worked as case manager for all aspects of trial preparation in varied complex litigations. Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

September 1999 -November 2000

Litigation Legal Assistant

Drafted pleadings; discovery requests, correspondence and responses; investigated facts of assigned cases, claims and complaints; proofread briefs and memoranda; maintained communication with adverse parties, attorneys and others involved in small claims matters.

Latham & Watkins, New York, NY

August 1997-August 1999

Litigation Paralegal

Performed as Acting Paralegal Supervisor; delegated assignments to paralegal staff; central legal assistant in several trials and arbitration proceedings; utilized law library and legal databases for legal research and Shepardizing; responsible for cite-checking and Bluebooking; created indices; conducted document productions; sole paralegal on numerous pro-bono cases.

Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY June 1993-June 1995

Litigation Paralegal

Primary legal assistant for corporate and securities litigation cases; conducted document productions to the SEC and RTC; created resource files and references systems; organized documents; coded documents; prepared trial exhibits. Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, NY

June 1992-June 1993

Paralegal Clerk

Organized deposition and witness files for two large-scale corporate litigation cases; created subject matter files; assisted in document productions.

SKILLS

Trial experience; arbitration experience; legal research, Shepardizing, cite-checking, Bluebooking, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Concordance, Summation, iManage, Outlook, document productions.

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