E-Discovery and Civil Litigation Paralegal

Tanita Speight

Office of the Secretary, Office of Medicare, Hearings, and Appeals - U.S. Department of Health

Capitol Heights, MD 20743

*******@*****.*** - 240-***-****

To obtain a position as a Litigation Paralegal

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Office of the Secretary, Office of Medicare, Hearings, and Appeals U.S. Department of Health - Arlington, VA - 2015-07 - Present As a Legal Assistant for the U.S. Department of Health, Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, I report directly to an administrative law judge; processes and a large volume of cases relating to Medicare claims for payments part A, B, C, and D. Schedules and prepare notices for hearing cases, prepare and paginate exhibits, Open and close cases, Prepares Hearing rooms for cases, record hearings, copying cds, labeling and recording case numbers on cds, and include them with the files. This position also entails tracking and coordinating the physical location of case files, including incoming and outgoing files. As a legal assistant my duties also include recording and tracking litigation due dates for large document production; generated by incoming legal materials, including paginating exhibits for review by administrative law judge, recording the status of cases and case assignments, generating computer reports using case tracking software. Reviews case records for adherence to OMHA. Identifies and acquires additional informational required to perfect the case previous two scheduled hearings or other disposition. Compiles case information, locate the records of case history, including initial filing, review and appeals. Contacts appellant or appellants representative to secure necessary documents and information. Provides callers and visitors with Information on capital OMHA procedures. Prepare routine correspondence, notices and papers on statuses, including notice of dismissal, expenses and other similar actions. Secretary

LABAT, Department of Justice - Washington, DC - 2014-09 - 2015-07 I am currently a secretary in the Civil / Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. My current duties include; preparing morning reports to inform upper management and chief of the division of the current status of staff and attorneys, receiving calls from citizen line (these are calls from public citizens, requesting to file a civil rights violation with the Department of Justice), creating a report to be distributed to paralegals regarding the nature of citizen calls and forwarding the caller information to the paralegal assigned to the caller's jurisdiction, creating, preparing, and amending travel vouchers and authorizations for attorney's interviewing witnesses for cases, maintaining travel and leave calendars for staff /attorneys Legal Assistant /Legal Secretary

Whiteford, Taylor, Preston LLP - Falls Church, VA - 2011-03 - 2014-07 Civil Division

Civil Litigation; creating, editing, drafting, and finalizing correspondence to various circuit, district courts, plaintiffs and defendants, prepared legal documents and calculate filing fees to docket and file documents in court, used database software to update case information, assisted with trial preparation, implemented and supervised governing document project; provided training for various projects, maintained case pleadings, correspondence, discovery, and legal research. Preparing and writing memoranda to summarize legal research, maintained document and work data bases, conducted legal research, coordinated work with outside vendors to meet filing deadlines, and organized and prepared exhibits, General Clerk II

Melwood Horicultural Service - Washington, DC - 2008-09 - 2010-04 Functioned as primary liaison to staff, created and prepared tables and spread sheets in Excel for monthly tonnage reports to provide the number of commodities recycled, distributed monthly tonnage reports to point- of-contacts for each region, created and prepared quarterly fiscal reports for the Operating Manager of the Recycling Division and recorded payments from vendors, prepared balance reconciliation statements on a monthly basis

Data Analyst, Litigation Support

CACI, Inc. / Randstad, Inc - Arlington, VA - 2000-01 - 2007-02 Conducted bates-stamping, redaction, duplication and indexing of documents. Worked with Practice Support in preparing electronic productions, categorized documents by subject matter, prepared a summary of facts and created production charts. Created and maintained internal case data bases, produced relevant information from a variety of resources such as newspapers, magazines, libraries, pro bono case documents and trade associations.

EDUCATION

Certification in Paralegal

George Mason University Office of Continuing Professional Education 2015-06

Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration

Everest University

2011-10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, 55 wpm, cite-checking, blue-booking skills, preparing travel vouchers and authorizations, legal research use of Lexis-Nexus, and Westlaw, Concordance, maintaining leave and travel calendar for attorneys and paralegals, ten years of administrative and secretarial support, project management, assisting in writing and creating manuals, accounts payable experience, multi-tasking, and assisting with additional assignments as needed

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