
Paralegal with ten years of litigation experience, with a background in Workers' Compensation, Personal Injury, and Criminal Law. Seeking to provide professional assistance in legal research, drafting legal documents, customer service, and trial preparation. Strengths include adaptability, self-motivation, and goal orientation.
• Prepared various exhibits for attorneys for trials, depositions, and examined client cases for litigation or legal resolution.
• Screen potential new clients to determine if claim is compensable under the law.
• Ensuring the organization of files including maintenance, management, and analysis of evidence for over 300 cases.
• Research and analyze legal issues and confer with attorneys to provide accurate advice to clients.
• Correspond and coordinate with opposing counsels, clients, judges, court personnel and any other individual contacting the firm promptly and professionally via email or phone.
• Maintain attorney calendars by coordinating time sensitive deadlines including scheduling depositions, hearings, pre trials and other legal proceedings.
• Draft and prepare pleadings, e-file legal documents, and ensure that all have been proofread, edited and revised as necessary for accuracy and formatting.
• Communicate case status to the client.
• File pleadings and motions in a timely manner.
• Request discovery via motions and subpoenas.
• Review and analyze any discovery that is produced for the attorney.
• Maintain records of hourly billing or retainer fees for clients.