Ira Arteyeva

1-650-***-**** ad4u9q@r.postjobfree.com Pacifica, CA 94044

Experience

FEB '23 – Present

Litigation Legal Assistant Cesari Werner Moriarty Law Firm, Daly City, CA Manage calendar, carry out e-filing in both State and Federal Court by means of One Legal and Infotrack, Pacer platforms. Prepare, proofread, and format legal documents, including but not limited to pleadings, discovery, motions, briefs, and correspondence. Maintain and organize case files, documents, and records. Manage and calendar court deadlines and assist in calculating pre-trial dates. Coordinate and schedule meetings, depositions, and court appearances. Work with clients, expert witnesses, mediators, others with respect to discovery matters, upcoming hearings, depositions, alternative dispute resolutions, etc. Conduct legal research and gather relevant information from various sources. Draft agreements such as settlement and release, retainer agreements. Prepare and handle document production and discovery requests. Assist with trial preparation, including organizing exhibits and trial binders. Maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion when handling sensitive and confidential information. Provide comprehensive administrative support to attorneys.

OCT '21 – FEB '23

Legal Assistant/Paralegal Gilead Sciences, Biopharmaceutical Company, Foster City, CA Assist in house attorneys with various legal matters including litigation, corporate, intellectual property. Work on contracts, redline, review, and proofread. E-file, draft various legal documents, forms, incorporate information, conduct legal and factual researches, including West Law, Edgar, Google, etc. Interview clients, stakeholders, collect necessary documents, insurance information, etc. Prepare requests, applications, communicate with government authorities. Perform administrative tasks, such as phone calls, drafting correspondence, printing, scanning documents, etc. Use Adobe Pro to convert, collate, reduce files, mark exhibits, confidential information, and make bookmarks for e-filing. Create, maintain spreadsheets. Calendar due dates, run reports, organize virtual meetings, notarize documents per request, prepare checklists, draft instructions, train new co-workers, etc. Prepare templates, draft corporate documents, corporate resolutions, SEC filing, and corporate minutes. Serve as a point of contact for clients, attorneys, stakeholders, etc. Prepare notices, amendments, and renewals.

DEC '19 - OCT '21

Paralegal TE Connectivity, Fremont, CA

Handle legal and administrative work. Draft legal documents, performing legal review and facilitate timely renewals. Collaborate and coordinate work with attorneys, paralegals, various specialists and entities to achieve consensus on pending matters. Work on contracts, issue notices, draft NDA, service agreements, maintain corporate governance documents include bylaws, articles of incorporation, etc. Assist with litigation matters, such as gathering documents, preparing exhibits and preparing documents for discovery. Review, calendar, process office actions, requests for corrections, etc. Assist in the preparation, drafting and management of legal documents such as government filings, contracts, and corporate filings.

AUG '14 - DEC '19

Paralegal Advanced Software Talent, Burlingame, CA Assist attorneys in drafting pleadings and motions, prepare subpoenas, and coordinate with process servers. Draft legal documents, pleadings, and correspondence such as interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints, pretrial orders, affidavits. Manage and maintain corporate document portfolio, legal entity structure, IP portfolio, review, analyze, draft legal documents, work with corporate databases. Prepare preliminary notices, processing contracts, adhere to the requirements and regulations, follow due dates. Prepare checklists. Draft a variety of corporate documents, including intercompany agreements, confidentiality agreements, incorporation documents, shareholder and board resolutions, meeting minutes, officer certificates, powers of attorney etc. Provide legal support to and work with internal teams on a variety of legal matters. Assist in implementing changes to contracts to comply with legislation/regulations. JAN '09 - AUG '14

Paralegal/Notary Public Self-Employed, Half Moon Bay, CA Draft legal documents; close commercial transactions. Interview clients and witnesses; Handle discovery. Work with attorneys, banks, title companies, clients to close real estate, mortgage transactions, notarize real estate documents. Draft probate court documents, estate inventories, and accountings. Handle California trust and estate administrations, including, but not limited to: assisting in the analysis, calculation, or preparation of asset and gift summaries. Preparing documents related to the transfer of assets, including deeds, notices of withdrawal rights, and assignments. Prepare documents to comply with reporting requirements for change in ownership of California real property. Work extensively with borrowers, explained to the borrowers in plain language complex mortgage related documents. Notarize, process the documents, and prepare invoices.

Education

Berkeley School of Law at University of California – Commercial Contract Fundamentals Certificate

ABA Approved Paralegal Program, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA - Paralegal Certificate Bachelor’s degree

Skills/Software Proficiency

Keen attention to details, complete projects on time, responsiveness. Recent software used: Abacus, Westlaw Form Builder, Box, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe PDF, Lexis Nexis, MS Teams, Zoom, LexisNexis, West Law, Google, SEC's EDGAR, ETABS, MyCase, etc.