Daniel W. Kemper

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Chicago, Illinois 60640

773-***-****

ad4j0p@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Peter Swan Law, P.C., Highland Park, Illinois—Litigation Paralegal—November 2022-Present

Ongoing litigation paralegal work for a former partner of Emalfarb Swan & Bain since the firm’s closure in November 2022

Same duties and responsibilities as before, but performed on a wholly remote basis

Emalfarb Swan & Bain, Highland Park, Illinois—Litigation Paralegal—March 2019-November 2022

Managed majority of firm’s litigation cases (primarily construction litigation, but also including general commercial, insurance coverage, trusts and estates and personal injury), including drafting correspondence, discovery requests and responses, motions and briefs, and handling all state and federal electronic court filings

Worked with clients to respond to discovery requests; worked with local counsel pursuant to deposition and trial preparation

Responsible for all aspects of electronic discovery at the firm, including client interaction pursuant to data collection, processing, filtering, responsiveness and privilege review and production using Logikcull

Secured data and documents from third parties (especially government entities) relevant to ongoing fact finding and development, litigation and client counseling

Family business and caregiver, Western Iowa—September 2014-February 2019

Managed multiple family farms on behalf of and served as caregiver for parent and elder relatives diagnosed with cancer and/or dementia

Quarles & Brady LLP, Chicago, Illinois—Litigation Paralegal (Chicago office) and Litigation Support Specialist (Firmwide)—May 2005-August 2014

Managed all litigation matters for the Chicago office (mostly general commercial, labor and employment, intellectual property, and product liability litigation) from filing of complaint up to and through trial and appeal

Processed electronic discovery and other materials using Law PreDiscovery; created databases in various applications and loaded data into same for review/use by case teams across the firm’s eight offices

Supported trial teams across the firm and handled all trials occurring in Chicago, up to and including processing data for, loading same into and running Trial Director (i.e., “hot seat”) during proceedings

Also served as Docket Manager for the Chicago office a total of three years during this period and facilitated the office’s migration to a web-based legal calendar management system (Juralaw)

Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois—Litigation Paralegal—November 1994- April 2005

Managed complex litigation matters (general commercial litigation, professional and product liability, mass and toxic tort, class actions, labor and employment, and intellectual property) from filing of complaint up to and through trial and appeal

Involved in all aspects of case development including factual investigation, witness interviews and compilation of case chronologies

Secured and analyzed relevant data and records from third parties, including medical providers and government entities

Trained project assistants, mentored junior paralegals and supervised teams of project assistants

SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER APPLICATION PROFICIENCY

Microsoft Office (including Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access), Adobe Acrobat DC, Odyssey eFile (Illinois state court filings), CM/ECF (federal court filings, including bankruptcy and appellate), Westlaw, LexisNexis, Trial Director, Relativity, Logikcull, LAW PreDiscovery, Summation, Concordance, iCONECT Xera, TreeAge Pro, Corel VideoStudio

PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS

Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS)--https://aceds.org/ceds-certifications/

iCONECT Xera System Administrator--https://www.iconect.com/training support/administrator-certification/

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois-Completed requirements for Bachelor of Arts in political science and international relations

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois-Completed requirements for Bachelor of Science in biology, additional coursework ongoing in physics, computer science and mathematics

References available upon request

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