Paralegal Personal Injury

LEE ANN TURSI

Eatontown, NJ *****

E-Mail: ***********@*******.***

732-***-****

SUMMARY

Over 30 years of experience working for attorneys primarily on litigation cases. Worked closely with attorneys on litigation cases at 7 different law firms on personal injury, medical malpractice, civil, wrongful death, and workers’ compensation for both plaintiffs and defendants. Managed files for large, document intensive, complex cases and handled large caseloads. Has great organizational skills and functional ideas to manage large, complex amounts of information. Is very good at using analytical skills to problem solve. Good aptitude with new software and training of co-workers. Team player for the good of the firm. EXPERIENCE

Paralegal

Levinson Axelrod; Howell Office, NJ 2017-2021

• Responsible for between 50 & 60 Plaintiff litigation files from Prelitigation through settlement. During the initial COVID crisis, I worked over 100 cases.

• Office liaison for Trial Works case management system for the Howell office

• Handled calendar, expert packages, discovery packages, trial preparation, arbitration packages, drafted complaints, drafted motions, settlement paperwork, etc. Paralegal

Widman, Cooney, Wilson, McGann & Fitterer; Oakhurst, NJ 2011-2017

• Managed plaintiff personal injury and workers’ compensation files

• Worked for senior partner on his medical malpractice cases

• Managed the plaintiff case calendar & assisted with medical malpractice defense cases

• Prepared motions, answers to interrogatories and anything else related to the litigation process

• Administrator of Amicus case management system, created and revised numerous merge documents

• Prepared expert packages

Paralegal

Law Offices of Herbert Ellis; Freehold, NJ 2009-2011

• Managed on average 50 active plaintiff personal injury files

• Interacted with clients, including assisting clients with completing answers to interrogatories and explained the litigation process

• Prepared motions, arbitration packages and pretrial exchange statements

• Obtained medical narratives and medical records for our clients’ files Director of Litigation Services

Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks; Toms River, NJ 1999-2008

• Assisted attorneys at trials on large, document intensive cases, created notebooks of the important information

• Reviewed and organized large amounts of documents and prepared cases for trial

• Set up bi-monthly litigation team meetings, created and maintained a Time Matters database

• Firm administrator and trained staff on Time Matters and Summation

• Served the firm as the person over in-house training, conducted and coordinated both group and individual trainings for the firm

Paralegal

Evans, Osborne & Kreizman; Ocean Township, NJ 1987-1999

• Worked on complex white-collar crime cases which were very document intensive

• Assisted attorneys with insurance defense and many cases defending JCP&L

• Worked on large personal injury cases

Paralegal

Brownsetin, Zeidman & Schomer; Washington, D.C. 1985-1987

• Assisted the firm’s preparation of international trade litigation cases

• Supported the lobbying of Congress for foreign clients related to trade issues

• Monitored trade legislation and compiled import statistics for clients EDUCATION

Kent State University, Kent Ohio

Bachelor of Science Major: Educational Studies with an emphasis on law 1984 Internship with the Akron Ohio Prosecutor’s office and 3 different law firms with different specialties

(plaintiff personal injury, defense and family law) SOFTWARE/COMPUTER SKILLS

• Trial Works

• Amicus

• Time Matters

• eCourts

• NJ Workers Compensation web site

• NJ District Court/Pacer web sites

• Summation

• PC Law

• Time Slips

• Power Point

• Microsoft Word

• Word Perfect

• Phillips Dictation

• Aptitude towards learning new software and programs as needed REFERENCES AVAILABLE FROM STEVEN ROGERS, JR., ESQ., CHARLES MATHIS, ESQ.

& CATHERINE CARTON, ESQ.

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