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Location:
New York, NY
Posted:
August 27, 2012

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Craig Lowther

*** **** ***** ******, ***. *

New York, NY 10031

917-***-****

b7xnem@r.postjobfree.com

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Experience:

Harwood Feffer LLP, New York, NY 4/99 to present

Sr. Litigation Paralegal

• Filing and review of SEC documents. (Proxies, Registration Statements, 10Ks)

• Damage analysis of shareholder purchases/ sales of stock holdings in

preparation for 1934 Exchange Act – 10b(5) Lead Counsel motions

• Load application and files for importing into various Litigation Support Applications

• Coordinate scanning, coding, and OCRing of discovery documents

• Heavy proofreading, citation checking, Bluebooking and Shepardizing of briefs, motions and complaints.

• ERISA, Title 29, NLRB and Collective Bargaining Agreement research issues.

• Court of Appeals & District Court ECF filings.

• Conduct all aspects of motion preparations regarding shareholder issues and rights.

• Detailed review of Limited Partnership Agreements, Stipulations and

Agreements of Settlement, and Purchase and Sale Agreements.

• Detailed legal research concerning multi- party litigation with emphasis on

class actions.

• Detailed discovery phase document reviews utilizing online web-based document depository.

• Voluminous document production management and review.

• Overall supervision of potential class member inquiries for future proceedings.

• E-discovery management utilizing online database program Relativity

• EDGAR and Department of Labor database research and public filings retrieval

• Writing and distribution of press releases announcing 10b(5) and anti trust class action suits.

• SEC filings and insider trading Form 4 research and investigations of company assets and holdings.

• Assist attorneys in preparing to use courtroom presentation applications

• Pre trial order and voir dire questionnaire preparation.

• Liaison with Circuit and District Court Clerks of the Court

Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY 6/98 to 4/99

Paralegal, Labor/Litigation

• Overall supervision of trial and in-house labor arbitration preparation

• Assist in the drafting of briefs: Summary Judgments, Motions to Dismiss.

• Citation checking (Bluebooking, quote checking, and detailed case law

research)

• Document production, document review, legal research

• Proofreading, redlining/blacklining.

Verizon, Legal Department, New York, NY 1/97 to 4/98

Paralegal, Litigation

• Worked side by side with corporate attorneys in trial preparation for class

action hearings and mass tort claims.

• Assist with the drafting of complaints, bill of particulars, answers and other pleadings.

• Production and preparation of requested defendant/plaintiff discovery material.

• Expert Witness interviews and preparation of witness prep schedules.

• Identify legal research issues for memorandum of law preparation and trial motions.

• Shepardizing and cite checking.

Wallace Law Registry, New York, NY 11/92 to 1/97

Paralegal/Proofreader

Worked full and part time, long and short term temporary assignments at various

law firms and in house corporate legal departments throughout the New York City

area such as :

Skadden Arps Fried Frank Shearman & Sterling

Brown and Wood Matthew Bender American Arbitration Ass’n

Education: Adelphi University, New York, NY

ABA Paralegal Certificate October 1992

Corporations, Litigation, Trust and Estates, Real Estate, Matrimonial

York College/ City University of New York, New York NY

Political Science/International Relations BA May 1992

Computer:

A+ Certification, Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw, Westcheck, Relativity, Summation Blaze, Concordance, JFS Litigators Notebook, LiveNote, IPRO, Doculex, Bloomberg, Edgar Online, Lotus Notes, MS Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Powerpoint, Timeslips.

Language: German (read, speak and write fluently); Spanish (good)

Military: U.S. Air Force (Sergeant); Security Specialist; Honorable Discharge



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