Litigation Paralegal

PAMELA JONES

**** ** *** ***; Apt #***, Miami, FL 33127

Phone: 786-***-**** or Email: ************@*****.*** PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Seasoned Litigation Paralegal with over 12 years of proven expertise in the legal field, consistently entrusted by leading law firms to contribute to successful outcomes in complex and high-stakes litigation cases seeking a Team or Supervisory assignment/role with a company in need of a proven leader with the ability to communicate with Senior Partners to effectively manage projects and advance the Corporate Litigation agenda. CAREER SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of combined experience as a proven Litigation Paralegal and Executive Secretary

• Collaborates and works with Senior Executive Leadership; Attorneys; Managers and all Legal Industry Professionals in the areas of Wrongful Death, Commercial, Product &Premises Liability; Construction Defect; First Party Property Insurance Defense; Personal Injury & Family Law

• Consistently earns respect/recognition by delivering a long line of successes for known National; Regional and local area titans such as Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A.; Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company; Kelley Kronenberg; Law Office of Yvonne S. Pandolfo (GEICO) and The Law Office of Shantell S. Suttle

• Brings immediate order to chaos; exemplifies “Exceptional and Legendary Performance” and Team Leaderships Qualities that resolve workflow anomalies; crisis and critical administrative issues ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

* Commended for adept case management proficiency encompassing discovery oversight, document review, database management, drafting case-winning motions, and extensive trial preparation supporting defense verdicts in intricate and high-exposure litigations.

* Designed and led the Project that became the Protocol as management required the entire Litigation Department to implement and follow after my creation of a well-received Docket Review Project and Excel Spreadsheet for Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company – the department consisted of well over one hundred (100) Attorney Teams with over three hundred (300) employees.

* Performed thorough cursory reviews and analysis of the Court’s docket for the purpose of reconciling every docket pleading in order to successfully recover a potential significant Loss of Revenues; Was able to identify:

• Over sixty (60) Trial Orders/Case Management Orders with deadlines to be processed

• Over forty (40) hearings, depositions and mediations to be calendared

• All cases needing an immediate Answer or Response filed

• All outstanding discovery responses from all parties

* Successfully demonstrated the “Expert” ability to navigate time constraints and simultaneously develop/implement effective team plans; tasks; work and resource allocation calendars and schedules that resulted in over (100 +) assigned cases bring brought to a “Current” Status.

* Am consistently 100% plus to plan; was assigned and tasked with reviewing over 70 cases in order to determine the status of all Notice of Production from Nonparty (NPNP’s) and was able to successfully reconcile and get hundreds (100s) of subpoenas back on track in preparation for trial and other upcoming events in less than one week.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. 05/2023 – 11/2023 Litigation Paralegal, (Wrongful Death, Commercial, Product &Premises Liability, Construction Defect)

• Served as a Paralegal to one (1) Partner & three (3) Associates with over seventy (70+) cases.

• Drafted highly articulate legal motions such as such as Motions to Compel: Discovery, Depositions, Inspections and Entry Upon Land, Motions for Fraud on the Court, Motions to Enforce Settlement, and Motions for Leave to Amend; pre-trial and trial pleadings such as Witness Lists, Exhibit Lists, and Expert Disclosures

• Prepared responses to and propound RFA’s, RFP, Interrogatories, Supplemental and Expert discovery; kept discovery documents organized for use throughout litigation and to transform into exhibits for trial

• Researched, vetted, contacted and retained experts pending client approval

• Prepared physical and/or electronic binders to send to experts

• Maintained responsibility for identifying and investigating third party liability

• Prepared and handled tracking and disposition of subpoenas, Request for Copies, Sunbiz.org and Public Records Requests to included detailed summary of findings

• Conducted investigative and social media research

• Assisted with all aspects of trial preparation and coordinates expert and other witnesses’ appearance for trial

Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company

Litigation Paralegal (First & Third-Party Property Insurance Defense) 12/2020 - 05/2023

• Analyzed and reviewed First Party Property and Assignment of Benefits (AOB) Complaints with accompanying AOB contracts estimates and invoices for relevancy and compliance with state laws and provisions to determine appropriate course of action

• Reviewed EMS documentation to determine timeliness and appropriate mitigation steps taken; Calculated case valuations to assist with settlement negotiations

• Drafted responses to First Party Property and AOB Complaints including but not limited to; Answers and Affirmative Defenses and Motions to Dismiss; Propounded and prepared responses to all discovery

• Assisted with drafting Motions for Summary Judgment and Pretrial Stipulations and Jury Instructions

• Redacted photos and compiled Bates Stamped production documents for discovery purposes

• Assisted with all aspects of trial preparation

• Drafted Motions in Limine, trial subpoenas and coordinated expert and other witnesses’ appearance for trial.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCES

• Legal Assistant, Kelley Kronenberg (First Party Property Insurance Defense), 05/20 - 11/20;

• Legal Secretary, Law Office of Yvonne S. Pandolfo - GEICO (Auto Insurance), 12/19 - 03/20;

• Paralegal, Law Office of Shantell S. Suttle (Personal Injury & Family Law), 06/12 - 12/19 EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

University of Miami - Coral Gables, Paralegal Studies Program: Finished at the Top of The Class – Ranked

#1 out of 30 students, June 2019

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