Los Angeles A Team

EXPERIENCE

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Los Angeles, CA March 2022 – September 2024

Senior Paralegal

Provide litigation paralegal support to a team of equity partners and five partners in the general liability department

Oversee the document production process, including extensive organization and review for responsiveness and privilege, as well as tagging and redaction; facilitate large-scale document reviews with external review teams

Prepare redaction and privilege logs

Conduct substantive and procedural legal research

Draft various pleadings and discovery documents

Coordinate trial logistics, including setting up war rooms, reserving hotel and office space, and securing necessary equipment and supplies

Prepare for and attend depositions of fact and expert witnesses

Schedule and track depositions, filing deadlines, and other case-related deadlines

Organize, label, and track trial exhibits, documents, and evidence

Gather and organize documents for the record on appeal and joint appendices

Review and respond to discovery, coordinate service of subpoenas, and assist with meet-and-confer letters

Contract Senior Litigation Trial Paralegal, Los Angeles, CA February 2021- March 2022

Provided paralegal litigation support to a team of four attorneys, including reviewing discovery related to

privileged and tagged documents for production on Relativity

Drafted pleadings, summarized deposition transcripts, prepared privilege logs, and compiled exhibits and page-line deposition testimony for motions for summary judgment

MARC J. BERN & PARTNERS LLP, New York, NY May 2019 – March 2020

Senior Litigation Plaintiff Paralegal

Provided paralegal litigation support to a team of three attorneys, including drafting pleadings, summons and complaint, supporting affidavits, trial exhibit and witness lists, prepared page/line designations for court testimony, and attendance at trial

Prepared HIPPA forms to obtain medical records and filed pleadings with the courts

Segal McCambrdige Singer & Mahoney, Jersey City, NJ March 2017 – April 2019

Senior Litigation Trial Paralegal

Provided paralegal and trial litigation support to a team of six attorneys, including preparing witness notebooks, trial exhibits, witness lists, page/line designations for court testimony, and attending trials

Organized and prepared pleadings and discovery documents, supporting the litigation team by reviewing, finalizing, and compiling documents for attorneys, and requesting medical records using HIPAA forms

Assisted in researching, analyzing, and filing appellate documents in State and Federal Courts in New York and New Jersey

Managed a substantial caseload in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, including asbestos, lead poisoning, and complex litigation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and e-filed motions

Filed pleadings such as affirmations, exhibits, motions, memoranda of law, oppositions, and replies to briefs via NYSCEF, CM/ECF, New Jersey, California, Connecticut Superior and District Courts

Independent Contractor, Miami, FL November 2009 – Feb 2017

Senior Litigation Trial Paralegal

Mandel & Mandel: Document review projects and trial preparation using Concordance; legal research using

Westlaw, including cite checking for case law.

Baker & McKenzie: Document review projects using Concordance in PDF form.

Butler Pappas Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP: Pre-trial and trial preparation, including the creation of witness lists, exhibit notebooks, and organization of deposition transcripts.

Greenberg Traurig LLP: Supported six attorneys for nine months on $150-550 million complex litigation cases; conducted trial preparation, including witness notebooks, trial exhibits, organization of deposition transcripts, proofing of witness lists, drafting jury instructions, filing motions in limine, voir dire, bills of costs, and attending trial.

Harder Mirell & Abrams and Michelman & Robinson, LLP: Assisted with document review projects and conducted legal research on Westlaw, including cite checks and filing motions in limine for trial

Hirschfeld & Kraemer: Assisted with pre-trial and trial preparation, including organizing deposition exhibits and preparing trial exhibits

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP: Conducted document review and privileged document analysis for a trial project, organized deposition exhibits, and handled trial preparation using Relativity

Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George Los Angeles, CA July 2007 – February 2009

Senior Litigation Trial Paralegal

Provided trial support to eight attorneys, including attendance at trials and arbitration hearings, and prepared jury instructions

Organized and prepared pleadings and discovery documents, supporting the litigation team by reviewing, finalizing, and compiling documents for attorneys

Managed and maintained high-profile commercial business litigation cases, including a $25 million intellectual property case; filed pleadings and motions in limine for trial

EDUCATION

Dual Diploma: Paralegal/Litigation Specialty Assistant September 1998

New York Paralegal School, NY

Bachelor of Science, Legal Studies December 1997

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY

SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Outlook, DMS/Worksite, Net Docs, iManage, Time Matters for Billing, Excel, WordPerfect, Westlaw and LexisNexis Find and Print, E-Discovery, Concordance, Summation, Cite Check, Bluebook Law, Sanction, Pacer, Relativity and E-Filing on NYSCEF, CM/ECF New York and Connecticut Supreme Courts, New Jersey Superior and United State District Courts. E-Filing in Los Angeles Superior, and United States District Courts in California.

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