Paralegal position
Resume:
Harold R. Hartley, Jr.
Saint Petersburg, FL 33703
Email: ***************@*******.***
WORK HISTORY
Freelance Paralegal / Case Manager 01/05 – pres.
Raymond James & Assocs., St. Petersburg, FL, Burnett & Thomas, Tampa, FL, Limberopoulos Law Firm, Tampa, FL, Catania & Catania, Tampa, FL, Tucker & Ludin, Clearwater, FL
Senior Paralegal / Case Manager - Case Management of approximately 200 cases, including Nursing Home, Med Malpractice, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, and Product Liability. Responsibilities include research, review and organize files and medical records, including preparation of medical chronologies, draft Complaints, draft discovery responses including interrogatories and request to produce, draft outgoing discovery to opposing counsel, draft privilege logs, draft Settlement Statements, perform searches on Sunbiz.org and Accurint, perform background checks on new clients, enter client information into database, new client intakes, draft motions, including Motions to Compel, Motion for Sanctions, Motion to Enforce Settlement, orders, draft Notice of Non-Party, draft Witness and Exhibit List, file pleadings in Federal Court on Pacer and file pleadings in State Court, schedule hearings and depositions, prepare notices, subpoenas, open and organize new client files, prepare own correspondence, client contact regarding status of case, research documents online with State, identify persons, corporations, addresses and contact names, and enter into computer regarding preparation of Complaint, review emails regarding case, batestamp incoming discovery responses, calendar discovery deadlines and pre-trial order deadlines, typing, trial prep, including trial notebooks, trial subpoenas, locating witnesses, maintaining paralegal notebook, creating .PST files, perform Westlaw research, Amicus and Needles software program.
Rahdert, Steele, Bryan, Bole & Reynolds, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL 5/04 – 12/04
Paralegal - Responsibilities included research, reviewed and organized files and medical records, entered client information into database, prepared notebooks of corporations that related to case, research regarding expert witnesses, new client intakes, updated and maintained date orders, scheduled hearings and depositions, prepared notices, subpoenas, opened and organized new client files, updated pleadings indices, prepared own correspondence, client contact regarding status of case, research documents online with State, identify persons, corporations, addresses and contact names, and entered into computer, reviewed emails regarding case, batestamped, calendared, typing, performed Westlaw research.
Law Offices of Edward Gerace, Esquire, P.A., Tampa, FL 10/99 – 5/04
(Legal Center for the Injured)
Paralegal - Case Management of Personal Injury cases, Researched, reviewed and organized files and medical records, entered client information into database, prepared notebooks of corporations that related to case, updated and maintained date orders, prepared subpoenas, opened files, updated pleadings indices, researched documents online with State, identified persons, corporations, addresses and contact information, and entered into computer, reviewed and summarized amendments, prepared joint stipulations, organized documents in chronological order, organized file folders, labeled file folders; client contact regarding status of case, extensive scheduling of hearings, depositions, mediations, reviewed incoming discovery and prepared draft answers for client and attorney’s review, reviewed emails, answered phones, bate stamped documents, prepared deposition notices, calendared, typing, created listing of all cases for department, maintained employee emergency contact information, performed Lexis research; extensive scheduling of hearings, depositions, mediations, researched, reviewed and organized files and medical records, entered client information into database, organized and prepared Demand packages, calendared, drafted settlement statements, extensive phone contact with medical providers regarding lien reductions, status updates, client contact regarding case status, typing, faxing, travel arrangements, online research at Sunbiz.org regarding filing Complaints, prepared subpoenas, notices, drafted own correspondence.
Carlton, Fields, Tampa, FL 11/97 – 9/99
Evening Office Services Supervisor – Responsibilities included: opened and sorted mail, punched and bound document, sent faxes, prepared FedEx and UPS documents, post office runs, court runs, ordered and maintained office supplies and supply room, photocopied documents, indexed documents, filing, batestamped documents, supervised evening staff office services.
Eckerd Corporation, Tampa, FL 1994 – 11/97
Assistant Manager/Store Trainer – Responsibilities included: opened and closed 30 different stores in the Tampa Bay area, maintained work overflow, stocked store supplies, maintained store displays and store fixtures, window decorated, cleaned and maintained store, supervised staff, as well as in-house training for new and existing employees, cashed out, drops and deposits at bank, maintained work schedule, sick and vacation calendar, worked in photo lab, worked in Rx Department.
SOFTWARE SKILLS/OFFICE SKILLS
Typing: 80 wpm, WordPerfect, Word (Expert), Excel (Expert), Outlook (Expert), Internet, Outside View (Expert), Advisor’s Resource, Journals, Pro-law (Expert), Roxio (Expert), Notary Public, Lexis and Westlaw.
EDUCATION
University of Tampa, Florida – Music Theory & Performance
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