ABA Certificated Paralegal with Advanced Legal Research Certificate

NASH GEORGE BRIONES

***** ********** *****; Yucaipa, California 92399; ****************@*****.*** ; Cell: 909-***-****

EDUCATION

University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario, CA

Member, Delta Theta Phi, 2019 – 2020

Member, Latino Law Students Association, 2019 – 2020

Member, Sports and Entertainment Law Society, 2020-2020

University of California Extension Center, Riverside, CA ABA Approved Paralegal Certificate, December 2015

University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, Minor, History [Pre-Law Emphasis], May 2013

GPA: 3.5

Participant, Spring Study Abroad Program (Austria, Italy, Germany)

Nominated Member, International History Honor Society (Phi Alpha Theta), 2012 – 2013

Member, International English Honor Society (Sigma Tau Delta), 2011 – 2013; Vice President of Events, 2012 – 2013; Intra-departmental Liaison to English Faculty, 2011 – 2012

EXPERIENCE

Law Offices of David D. L. Horton Esq. & Associates APC, Palm Springs, CA (40 hr. pr. wk)

Senior Probate Paralegal, November 12 – November 19, 2024

Maintained client file information in intra departmental file data base

Used Clio and Clio Draft to compose Petitions to Probate and subsequent probation documents

Called clients and our other offices to corroborate billing for services and court filing fees rendered, for the sake of reimbursements and dispersal of estate funds

Maintained intraoffice calendar through Clio

Communicated with clients in text and email in the Clio Client portal and called them through the RingOne app regarding mortgages and encumberances

Estelle & Kennedy: A Professional Law Corporation, Upland, CA (40 hr. pr. wk)

Paralegal, April 15 – June 27, 2024

Used Adobe to convert and save documents to the network client data base

Used Form Builder in WestLaw Next to generate documents for clients: Deed Transfers, LLC 12s, LLC 12As, Trust forms, Order After Hearing Documents and documents relating to Family Law Issues

Calendared events and meetings with clients and opposing counsel for our attorneys

Preformed billable hours and billed accordingly in MyCase and notated financial actions for Process of Service and other such actions for clients

Made calls to clients, courts and opposing counsel for clients on attorneys’ behalf

Drafted documents and correspondence to serve on clients and opposing counsel

Arranged and scheduled mediations for our attorneys

Conducted legal research for counsel relating to Cal OSHA and other standards and practices rubrics, statutes of limitations and other local rules of court and other California Rules of Court

Performed Preliminary Research into the minutia detailing of clients’ cases

Scanned Closed File Client Cases into the network

Organized Trial Binders

Scanned Active Trial Evidence Binder Documents to Attorneys

Riverside Law Offices of the Public Defender, Riverside, CA (40 hr. pr. wk)

Paralegal I, January 12 – February 15, 2023

Made redactions of documents for clients in Adobe

Called clients to establish possible representation

Retrieved and exchanged discovery with local counties

Submitted discovery and our files to new private counsel of our former clients

Maintained correspondence with clients in letters withe their redacted case sensitive documents

Conducted research to locate where in the state/nation clients were in custody or housed

Peterson Bradford Burkwitz LLP, Burbank, CA (40 hr. pr.wk)

Civil Litigation Paralegal, January 2022 – January 2022

•Worked on transactional components of Discovery

•Prepared trial binders for managing partners

•Drafted intraoffice memos for associates/partners

•Checked that we processed correct billings for legal fees

DMCG, Inc. dba Bail Hotline Bailbonds, Riverside, CA

Liability Management Paralegal, August – September 2017 (40 hr. pr.wk.)

•Worked as one of only six paralegals for 33 offices across California and Mexico

•Prepared various Penal Code 1305-1308 C1-C3 motions.

•Composed death motions to accompany requested death certificates from various counites.

•Filed requests for and responses to requests for summary judgment.

•Made inquiries and maintained notes in case files regarding the status of documents.

•Drafted notices of bond exonerations within the various county courthouses.

Riverside County Public Defender’s Office, Banning, CA

Paralegal Intern, September – December 2015 (10 hr. pr. wk.)

•Obtained in-custody documents from the District Attorney’s office.

•Exchanged requests for supplemental discovery and supplemental discovery with the District Attorney’s office.

•Advised clients of the terms of their plea agreements for violation of parole, arraignments or for work release.

•Facilitated Defender Data and Judicial Access software to field client questions

•Completed forms in felony arraignments, Proposition 47 expungements, case dismissals, and work release forms.

•Scanned transcripts to our office’s data file from a 1996-97 murder case that has recently been reopened.

•Relieved supervising paralegal and assumed all paralegal duties while on bereavement leave-October of 2015.

University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (10 hr. pr. wk.)

Research Assistant I/ Research Assistant II, Department of English Literature, September 2011 – April 2013

• Researched and photocopied materials for an English professor to be utilized in instruction of coursework.

•Aided in the production of “Writing Across the Curriculum” to certify other faculty to teach writing intensive courses across all university curriculum.

Office Assistant I, Department of Philosophy and Asian Studies, November 2010 – April 2011 (10 hr. pr. wk.)

•Assisted professors in grading student coursework as assigned

•Requested and purchased books from the library for the department faculty as needed on Continental, New Age, Ancient Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Office Assistant I, Department of Alumni Relations, August 2009 – May 2010 (10 hr. pr. wk.)

•Answered phones to fill money orders of Town & Gown Society member and alumni doners

•Heled in the set-up and maintenance of facilities for Alumni Weekend 20009

•Sent out mass mailings to alumni

PUBLICATIONS

2017 UCR/ICAP Legal Education Conference, 31Icaptions 3, 10-11, 2017

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Intermediate Spanish: Reading, Writing, and Speaking

COMPUTER SKILLS

•Task Master Calendaring software

•Tabs 3 Billing software

•Judicial Access

•Inmate Locator

•Defender Data

•Microsoft Office Suite

•LexisNexis

•West Law Next

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