Los Angeles Litigation Paralegal

Daniel L. Goldman

West Hollywood, CA *****

424-***-**** ********@*******.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GIANELLI & MORRIS, APC Los Angeles, CA 8/2024 – present

Litigation Paralegal

Assist 6 attorneys in bad faith insurance cases, representing Plaintiffs only. Prepared discovery responses, protective orders, document review, prepared charts and graphs of information, met with clients, prepared document productions, gathered information from client for discovery responses, prepared attorneys for hearings and mediations, filed documents in state court.

ISAACS FRIEDBERG LLP, Los Angeles, CA 7/2021 – 8/2024

Litigation Paralegal

Assist twelve attorneys on a variety of cases, including insurance defense, breach of contract, real estate fraud and employment matters. Work with Managing Partner, other attorneys and staff along the litigation process; discovery, pre-trial and arbitration, draft legal documents including notices, motions, discovery, shells, proofread, format documents and file/e-file in State and Federal Court and prepare exhibits for same, track incoming document productions, work extensively with vendor on large document productions, download to internal system and upload documents to be produced, heavy use of Relativity, perform searches, download documents for review and to prepare attorneys for depositions and deposition preparation with witnesses, working closely with vendors, maintain electronic witness folders and final deposition transcripts for large insurance cases, prepare attorneys for mediations and arbitrations, including preparing exhibit lists and binders and indexing documents, calendar events, proceedings and deadlines, generate weekly firm calendar every Friday and distributed to entire firm for the following two weeks.

COHEN & LORD, Los Angeles, CA 1/2011 – 8/2012

Paralegal

Served eleven Doe defendants with fifty-four complaints, in large pharmaceutical, JCCP, coordinated case, prepared documents for service on Doe Defendants, and prepared documents for trials and hearings, reviewed, analyzed and prepared documents for distribution to document depository, prepared and responded to discovery requests, medical record and deposition summaries, gathered medical records, summarized and analyzed same. Supervised Paralegals and other staff, at various points of the case.

BOWMAN AND BROOKE LLP, San Jose, CA 12/2008 – 6/2009

Paralegal

Prepared attorneys for trial, including preparation of all trial materials, consulted with experts regularly regarding depositions, trial preparation and various case issues, prepared medical record summaries, discovery responses and summaries of opposing counsel discovery responses, deposition transcripts and performed searches of same, scheduled depositions with experts and witnesses.

LITTLER MENDELSON, San Jose, CA, 10/2007 – 10/2008

Paralegal

Assisted with trial preparation, created deposition summaries for attorney review, and in preparation for trial, performed daily tasks relating to labor and employment cases, instrumental in producing documents from Summation database and created indices of same, performed on-line client research regarding relevant case information, created deposition video clips through computer program and supervised Paralegals and Attorneys, at various points in cases.

TEMPORARY POSITIONS, Los Angeles, Santa Monica & San Jose, CA 2/2006 – 10/2007

Paralegal 6/2009 – 12/2010 & 8/2012 – 7/2020

Performed a variety of paralegal assignments at prestigious law firms such as Bingham, McCutchen, McGuire Woods, Chapman Gluckman & Dean, Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Pfeiffer Thigpen Fitzgibbon & Ziontz, Morgan Browning Capital, Bird Marella, Selman & Breitman, Silver & Field, Girardi & Keese, Haight Brown & Bonesteel, Manning & Kass, Adams Stirling, The Rudd Law Firm.

Propounded and responded to discovery, worked in the Relativity database, prepared deposition summaries, performed research, document review and reports for auto accident cases, prepared attorneys for trial and hearings, regularly supervised other paralegals on a variety of projects.

BIRD, MARELLA, BOXER, WOLPERT, NESSIM, DROOKS & LINCENBERG, Los Angeles, CA 9/2004 – 2/2006

Paralegal

Prepared documents for a variety of court filings and case-related binders, conducted on-site client document reviews, performed trial preparation including exhibit and witness lists, prepared privileged logs, reviewed and analyzed documents.

LINER, YANKELEVITZ, SUNSHINE & REGENSTREIF, Los Angeles, CA 9/2003 – 9/2004

Paralegal

Prepared attorneys for trial, including case preparation, discovery and pleading binders, prepared exhibit and witness lists, managed thousands of documents and prepared documents for court filings in Los Angeles Superior and U.S. Federal District Court, researched legal issues on Westlaw and LexisNexis databases and assisted attorneys in all areas of complex civil litigation matters, prepared medical record and deposition summaries, worked on large municipality case, City of Los Angeles v. Chevron, and supervised paralegals and attorneys, throughout cases.

IRELL & MANELLA LLP, Los Angeles, CA 4/2001 – 9/2003

Paralegal

Prepared and reviewed documents for production, maintained sensitive case files and nationwide travel to client offices to gather documents in response to SEC subpoenas, extensively used Concordance database system in reviewing production documents and worked with thousands of case documents, supervised litigation clerks in daily tasks, including trial preparation, pre and post-trial duties and appellate work, tracked important case dates with Case-Map, prepared medical record and deposition summaries and supervised paralegals and staff on large cases.

EDUCATION

UCLA Extension – Attorney Assistant Training Program

Paralegal Certificate, Civil Litigation Program

Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts

Major, Political Science

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Proficient in Concordance, Summation, Live Note, LexisNexis, Westlaw, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, WordPerfect, Case-Map, Trial Director, Relativity, Searchlight, Disco, Green Filing, ECF

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