Commercial Litigation Support

Elsa G. Reyna

Paralegal

Sperling & Slater

November 1994 to Present

Experience

• Organized and managed complex commercial litigation, including class actions, from beginning to trial.

• Assisted attorneys in developing discovery strategies for discussions with clients, IT specialists, co-counsel, opposing counsel, consultants and litigation support vendors.

• Processed, maintained and produced high volumes of digital documents and data using server and cloud- based legal databases.

• Identified and interpreted document and image metadata, including writing programming code to use train spotting software to quantify image encoding information crucial to a case.

• Customized and simplified database workspaces for ease of workflow for litigation teams, particularly layouts requiring issue coding.

• Created custom searches for the identification of documents for review by attorneys and litigation teams, productions to opposing counsel, deposition preparation and trials.

• Prepared sophisticated Excel spreadsheets and graphics for use in presentations, arbitrations, damage models, settlement scenarios and trials.

• Designed simple and complex charts and graphics for presentations, arbitrations and trials. Skills

• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat.

• Experience with Relativity, EverLaw and legacy database programs such as Summation, Access, Concordance and RBase.

• Moderate expertise in graphic and video software, including Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro. Assets

• Ability to absorb and understand complex case facts.

• Analytical skills to develop case narratives, identify key players, determine essential and supplemental issues and create timelines that clarify and condense case facts.

• Innovative thinking and persistence in solving technical and logistical problems.

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