Project Manager

Work Experience

Oct ****- CONFIDENTIAL

June **** Program Coordinator/ESL Tutor

• 1-on-1 tutor with children k-12, providing program administration, homework assistance, reading, writing, english,

and math instruction, exam preparation, school project assistance, test administration, and parent conferences

• Ensured all program activities operated consistently and ethically within organizational and educational protocols

• Assisted program managers in managing student educational programs through providing personal feedback on

individual student sessions, maintaining student case files and personally addressing student/parents needs

• Provided transparency to managers on individual student progress through management metrics and reporting

• Generated weekly forecasts on individual student performance against DOE standards and teacher comments

• Maintained, loaded and tracked student case materials into learning center electronic database

• Prepared weekly educational materials for individualized student sessions, procuring books, course materials,

office supplies, and equipment

Jan 2009- CONFIDENTIAL

Oct 2010 Paralegal/Research Analyst

• Managed discovery, document review, deposition, trial, arbitration and mediation processes for active cases

• Performed project based exploratory analysis and research for discovery, trials, mediations and arbitrations

• Developed and maintained online research systems for case materials and legal documentation

• Performed IS/IT project management of electronic databases to assist with document review

• Prepare and finalize productions, trial materials, exhibits, transcripts, complaints, answers, affidavits, and motions

• Calendared deadlines, firm meetings, hearings, court dates, depositions and trial dates for active cases

• Served as a liaison between the firm and vendors to coordinate completion of outsourced document projects

• Maintained case files and tracked docket activity on active cases using Pacer, Edgar, Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis

• Drafted, formatted and quality checked pleadings, contracts, proposals, addendums, memoranda, correspondence

• Gatekeeper, handling all incoming calls, correspondence and inquiries, as well as maintaining firm calendar

• Arranged domestic and international travel, hotel reservations, dinner meetings, and in office conferences

Oct 2007- CONFIDENTIAL

Sep 2008 Case Manager, Paralegal

• Planned, coordinated and monitored case management and technological support on active cases

• Managed case discovery process and performed document review using Concordance and Summation

• Created discovery document logs, privilege logs, plaintiff and defendant exhibit indices with bates stamp

• Consolidated data from electronic systems and conformed records to project specifications for final submission

• Created CDs and DVDs of litigation case materials for productions, record keeping and file retention

• Prepared and proofed pleadings, productions, trial books, pitch books and legal correspondence

• Completed fact checks and final review on all research deliverables prepared by teams prior to dissemination

• Conducted investigative research through Lexis-Nexis on corporate entities and drafted reports relevant to cases

• Scanned, imported and integrated case documents and conformed to electronic databases and filing systems

• Maintained case files, client records and tracked docket activity using electronic databases

• Arranged travel itineraries, car service, conference, hotel and restaurant reservations for Senior Partner

Jan 2005- CONFIDENTIAL

Oct 2007 Senior Litigation Paralegal

• Performed paralegal support for attorney litigation teams in discovery, pre-trial, trial and post-trial

• Completed hardcopy/electronic document review, coding/tagging responsive, non responsive and hot documents

• Cite checked pleadings and proofed complaints, interrogatories, answers, affidavits, motions, and petitions

• Organized case materials in Concordance, Summation, Case Map, and Lextranet

• Prepared for and attended depositions and trials both locally and nationally with attorney and paralegal teams

• Created plaintiff/defendant exhibit binders, privileged document binders, and drafted accompanying logs/indices

• Preserved closed case documentation through in-house digital preservation protocols, logging and coding files

Education

2000-2004 Middlebury College: BA Middlebury, VT

Business and Technical Skills

Mac/PC, Word, Excel, Power Point, Adobe, Relativity, Concordance, Summation, Lextranet Document Review, Discovery and Trial Support, Lexis-Nexis, West Law, JFS, Lotus Notes, Live Note, Documatrix, Case Central, I-Manage, InterAction, Legal Key, Edgar, Pacer, ECF, eCopy, Nuance

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