Manager Management
Resume:
Roy E. Higdon
Houston, TX 77006
E-mail: *********@*********.***
Legal Experience Summary
Seventeen years of defense experience including asbestos, product/premise, insurance, personal injury, toxic tort, and maritime law. Thirteen months of plaintiff experience, and five years of files management.
Legal Experience
Contract Paralegal – Gibson Arnold & Associates - 08/2010-01/2012
• Privilege/confidential document review for a Houston engineering/service company (KBR)
Paralegal – The Mostyn Law Firm - 04/2009-05/2010
• Management of 350+ case hurricane docket
• Drafting/filing petitions
• Prepare/respond to discovery
• Daily contact with clients
• Compile virtual and hard copy mediation notebooks
• Work with outside vendors
• Finalize settlement of cases
Contract Paralegal – Gibson Arnold & Associates - 06/2008-04/2009
• Privilege/confidential document review for a Houston engineering/service company (KBR)
Paralegal - Crain, Caton, and James, PC- 11/2005-04/2008
• Management of asbestos docket and database
• Prepare/respond to discovery
• Prepare medical, deposition and employment summaries, tolling agreements and non-suits
• Work with private investigators
• Work with the MDL
Contract Paralegal - various agencies - 10/2003-11/2005
• Maritime injury and liability, asbestos, and breast implant cases
• Prepare medical and deposition summaries and deposition notebooks
• Prepare/respond to discovery
Paralegal - Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering, LLP - 11/2001-09/2003
• Management of pharmaceutical product defense docket
• Contact and schedule expert witnesses
• Prepare deposition/trial notebooks and discovery responses
• Work with the MDL
Paralegal - Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas & Law, PC - 10/2000-11/2001
• Management of asbestos database
• Prepare deposition/trial notebooks and discovery responses
Paralegal - Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, L.L.P - 04/1999-07/2000
• Management of maritime law docket
• Prepare deposition/trial notebooks and discovery responses
• Trial attendance
Contract Paralegal - Shell Oil Company - 06/1998-03/1999
• Review of oil and gas leases
Records Manager - Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman - 1993-06/1998
• File manager/supervision of three employees as well as paralegal duties
Software Skills
MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, WordPerfect, Introspect, IManage, Summation, Concordance, Westlaw, Lexis Nexis, Juris, Pacer and e-file.
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
B. A. Degree
Center for Advanced Legal Studies
Houston, Texas
Paralegal Certificate/Diploma
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