Medical Records Litigation Paralegal
Resume:
Paris Whitehead
Lawrenceville, GA *****
***********@*****.***
HIGHLIGHTS:
* ***** ********* ******* **********; 2 years Worker’s Compensation/Personal Injury; 11 years Personal Injury/Auto Accidents, Dog Bites, Slip and Fall, and Premise Liability Litigation.
EXPERIENCE:
Whitehead Litigation Services, LLC 04/2019 - Present
Owner and CEO; I provide litigation services to various law firms across the State of Georgia and California.
It opened for business in 2019 and became an officially registered business on July 25, 2025.
Haug Barron Law Group 12/2023-3/29/2024
Legal Assistant/Paralegal
Request medical records and billing
Update the system with new client information
Client intake
Status calls to clients and medical facilities
Settlement disbursement
Law Office of Julian L. Sanders 09/2022 – 10/16/2023
Litigation Paralegal (Firm layoffs)
Drafting discovery production and responses
Schedule and calendar depositions and mediations
Schedule Court Reporters
E-File with Odyssey, Peach court and PACER
Draft Motions, 6.4 Letters and Correspondences
Morgan & Morgan (GA) 07/2021 - 09/2022
Litigation Paralegal (Office relocated out of range for commute)
Prepared Notebooks for Trial
Scheduled and Calendared Depositions and Mediations
Called Clients for updates of their case
Ordered Certified Medical Records
Summarized Deposition Transcripts
Robert Half Legal (GA) 8/2017 – 07/2021
Contract Paralegal – Legal Support Professional for the following Contracts:
Office of the Attorney General (Georgia- Government)
Rutherford Christie Legal (Georgia Law) Insurance Defense
McElfish Law (California Law)-Personal Injury Firm/Workers Compensation
Butler Snow (Georgia Law)- Insurance Defense
Prepared notebooks for trial
Scheduled and calendared depositions and mediations
Communicated case all case developments with clients
Ordered certified medical records
Summarized Deposition Transcripts
Prepared discovery production and responses
Scheduled and calendared depositions and mediations
Scheduled court reporters
E-File with Odyssey, Peachcourt and PACER
Drafted Motions, 6.4 Letters and Correspondences
Alder Law, LLP (CA) 01/2014-8/2017
Pre-Lit Paralegal- Personal Injury-Plaintiff
Generated, prepared, and organized legal documents for new cases
Schedule and calendar depositions and mediations
Schedule court reporters
E-File with the state and federal courts
Drafted discovery for defendants
Prepared Standard Objections to IME
Kimball, Tirey & St. John (CA) 10/2008-12/2013
Eviction Case Manager- Transactional Real Estate Defense
Ensured all facts related to new cases were noted on new client forms
Read and reviewed rental lease agreements for specific information
Filed judgements with State Court
Followed up with the Court on evictions
Corresponded with Sheriff’s Office for eviction dates
Frequent client contact to obtain missing information, and extensive data
entry with a high level of accuracy
Hawkins and Parnell, LLP (GA) 11/2002-08/2008
Litigation Paralegal- Insurance Defense, Asbestos Litigation- 130 Hours monthly billable requirements)
Supervised case managers and clerks
Trained incoming Jr. Paralegal
Drafted legal documents
Created Excel spreadsheets for discovery
Created medical logs
Attended trials
Prepared trial notebooks
Prepared Subpoenas, including Foreign Subpoenas
Reconciliation of Summation Database
Summarized Deposition transcripts
Drafted the Answers for asbestos complaints
Coordination of litigation cases from start to finish, including preparing attorneys for depositions and arbitration hearings
Created, organized and set-up exhibit notebooks
EDUCATION:
Walden University
Bachelors in Social Work
Masters in Psychology
California State University
Associates in Paralegal Studies (ABA Approved)
Bachelors in Journalism
SKILLS
Lexis
Prolaw
Mycase
CasePeer
Westlaw
E-Filing - Odyssey/Peach Court/PACER
Relativity
Lithify
CMS
Excel/Power Point/Adobe/Word
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