CARLA M. BANKHEAD

• Handle office scheduling and calendar deadlines, motions and other important dates.
• Schedule appointments, court appearances and depositions.
• Work alongside attorneys, administrative assistants and fellow legal assistants on complex cases and legal processes.
• Complete document revisions, court document filings, and client billing.
• Prepare for trials, putting trial binders together and exhibits.
• Organize key evidence exhibits to prepare for trials.
• Interview and prepare intake sheets for clients in Spanish and English.
• Organize evidence, exhibits, motions and subpoenas to support cases and prepare for trial.
• Complete electronic court filings at state and federal levels.
• Revise and finalize letters, briefs and memos.
• Draft discovery requests and discovery responses.

Ms. Sigurdson's primary practice consisted of personal injury and worker's compensation cases. She also practiced in family law and bankruptcy law.

• Prepared correspondence, drafted pleadings, drafted discovery requests and responses, proofread motions/oppositions;
• Maintained and logged discovery;
• Prepared binders/notebooks/exhibits for arbitration, mediations and trials;
• Maintained court calendar and discovery deadlines;
• Scheduled depositions;
• Conducted basic research;
• Requested necessary documentation and evidence for files;
• Assisted with translation for Spanish speaking clients;
• Assisted attorney in determining strengths and weaknesses of cases
• Conducted detailed client intakes and entered information into company database.
• Coordinated trial exhibits by organizing materials, writing documentation and preparing digital materials and displays.

• Performed preliminary online trademark/service marks availability;
• Maintained calendar for filing deadlines and/or fees due the USPTO for trademarks and patents;
• Prepared declarations, assignments and other prosecution patent documents.