Assistant Insurance

Michelle D. Hitchcock

***** **** **** *****

Arvada, Colorado 80004

303-***-**** (home)

303-***-**** (cell)

OBJECTIVE : To provide experienced and quality legal assistance

EXPERIENCE:

2008-Present LEGAL SECRETARY (Construction/Environmental)

Moye White LLP

2007-2008 PARALEGAL (Insurance defense)

Fowler, Schimberg & Flanagan, P.C.

2004-2007 LEGAL ASSISTANT (Personal Injury)

Larry D. Lee, P.C. 303-***-****

2002-2004 PARALEGAL (Trademark Prosecution)

Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP 303-***-****

2001-2002 TEMPORARY LEGAL ASSISTANT/PARALEGAL

Legal Affiliates, Jennifer Dugan, Denver, Colorado

303-***-****

1999-2001 LEGAL ASSISTANT

Jennifer A. Rivera, P.C., Denver, Colorado 303-***-****

(Family Law)

1995-1999 LEGAL ASSISTANT

Charles H. Torres, P.C., Denver, Colorado 303-***-****

(Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Criminal)

1992-1995 LEGAL SECRETARY

Montgomery Green Jarvis Kolodny & Markusson, P.C., Denver,

Colorado (Insurance Defense)

1988-1992 LEGAL SECRETARY

Joseph C. Dolan, Esq., Phoenix, Arizona

(Personal Injury/Plaintiff and Insurance Defense, Product Liability,

and Wrongful Death)

1984-1987 LEGAL SECRETARY

Anderson, Campbell and Laugesen, P.C., Denver, Colorado

303-***-**** (Insurance Defense)

1980-1984 LEGAL SECRETARY

Osterkamp, Jackson and Hollywood, Chicago, Illinois

(House Counsel for USF&G)

Pleadings

- prepare Motions for Extensions of Time and accompanying Orders

- independently prepare Petitions (in family matters), various Motions

- prepare drafts of Complaints in personal injury cases

- prepare 26(a)(1) Initial Disclosures

- independently prepare correspondence

- e-file pleadings through Lexis/Nexis

- answer and propound discovery (Interrogatories, Requests for Production

of Documents, Requests for Admissions)

- independently determine necessity for discovery motions and prepare

and file same

Trial Preparation and Calendar Control

- coordinate all day-to-day court and office activities

- retain expert witnesses and prepare expert disclosures

- schedule depositions, IMEs and hearings

- coordinate availability of all clients, experts, and witnesses for deposition testimony, court hearings and trial

-prepare witness and exhibit lists and trial notebooks

Other Duties

- open, organize and prepare initial investigation of new cases

- send case e-mails and other correspondence to clients

- investigation and preparation of mechanics’ liens, lien letters; notice to

disbursers; demand letters in construction matters

- docketing and calendaring of cases to insure appropriate action before

deadlines

- daily interaction with clients, experts, witnesses, adversaries and court personnel

- summarize medical records

- summarize deposition transcripts

- client billing and client reports

- enter attorneys’ time

- profile e-mails in document management (Worldox) program

- efiling through Lexis/Nexis

- ECF filing of U.S. District Court cases; U.S. Court of Appeal cases (in Colorado and other states)

Trademark Prosecution

-prepare U.S. Trademark Applications, Statements of Use, Extensions of Time; Declaration of Use and Incontestability Under Sec. 8 & 15, Renewals

-prepare correspondence to foreign associates in response to Office Actions and requesting status reports of foreign marks

-document and docketing management of clients’ marks

-prepare Oppositions and Cancellations for filing with the TTAB

-routinely check status of matters with the USPTO and TTAB

-Saegis and Google searches and prepare hit lists of possible marks

-investigation of marks being policed

SKILLS :

Office operations, typing (75 wpm.), telephone communications, client

services, transcribing dictation, Microsoft Word (2003) (2007) (2010,

Excel, PowerPoint, as well as WordPerfect for Windows, Outlook,

LawTool Box, Vision, Worldox, Omega for time

Lexis/Nexis and Timeslips

EDUCATION :

Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, Chicago, IL (Diploma)

Trinity College, Palos Heights, Illinois (Paralegal classes)

Morraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois

Southwest School of Business, Chicago, IL (received Certificate in 1980)

SEMINARS :

CTLA: Managing a PI Case, When and What You Should be Doing, February, 2005

CTLA: Auto Litigation Committee Meeting: Ethics for Litigators, December 1, 2005

CTLA Convention: Copper Mountain, CO Legal Staff Program, August 4, 2006

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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