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BRIAN BINNS

Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Litigation - Secretarial support for 5-on-1 desk: Managing Partner of Los Angeles Office, Junior Partner and three Associates for actions filed in Federal District Courts; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. State Courts: Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Diego; Representative areas of Practice: Complex Commercial Litigation, Consumer Law, Class Action, Financial Services, Personal Injury, Construction Defect, Insurance Claims Defense. Transactional - Real Estate, Bankruptcy: secretarial support for attorneys representing commercial property owners, borrowers, lenders, and developers; Corporate: formation of corporations and subsidiary entities. Document Production - Intensive document production center experience: redlining, revisions, transcription, table of contents and authorities, Excel spreadsheets, optical scanning.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Litigation Secretary / Paralegal Hybrid

Miller Barondess, LLP
04.2021 - Current

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Litigation Secretarial Support

GREENBERG GROSS LLP
01.2018 - Current
  • Litigation Secretarial Support on heavy E-Filing desk, single secretarial support for six attorneys: one Partner, two Counsel, and three Associates
  • Prepare high-volume of Under Seal documents and electronic filings in State, Federal, and Appellate Courts
  • Responsible for litigation time table calendaring entries and updates of all cases assigned to attorney team via Compulaw
  • Heavy revision, transcription, redlining, Table of Contents, Table of Authorities, proofreading, prepare attorneys' daily billing and finalize monthly bills

Litigation Secretarial Support

JENNER & BLOCK
03.2014 - 06.2016
  • Litigation Secretarial Support on heavy E-Filing desk, responsible for two Partners and three Associates
  • Very heavy court filing workflow with strong emphasis on E-Filing and manual filing procedures for Under-Seal documents in Central, Northern, and Southern District Courts of California, as well as Superior Courts of Los Angeles and Orange County; significant emphasis on Removal Filings from Superior to District Courts
  • Daily workflow of court pleading revisions and formatting including Table of Contents and Table of Authorities, PDF redaction in preparation for Under-Seal Filings
  • Coordination of deposition and court reporter schedule; attorney travel arrangements; maintenance of litigation case indexes and trial binders;
  • Responsible for attorney time input and end-of-month billing.

Special Assignment Secretarial support

SIDLEY AUSTIN, LLP
05.2008 - 09.2012
  • Special Assignment Secretarial support for all legal departments across Sidley Austin Practice Groups Litigation, Corporate Transactional, Real Estate, Intellectual Property
  • Prepared hundreds of document and electronic filings in State and Federal Courts
  • Responsible for manual litigation time table calendaring of all cases assigned to attorney team
  • Prepared and maintained pleading, discovery, and correspondence indices;
  • Heavy revision, transcription, red lining, Table of Contents, Table of Authorities, proofreading; Prepared attorneys' daily billing and finalized monthly bills

Secretarial support

WALLER, LANSDEN, DORTCH & DAVIS LLP
01.2005 - 11.2007
  • Secretarial support for three Senior Associates and one Jr. Associate - Complex Litigation
  • Prepared multiple document and electronic filings in State and Federal Court
  • Responsible for manual litigation time table calendaring of all cases assigned to attorney team
  • Prepared and maintained pleading, discovery, and correspondence indices;
  • Heavy revision, transcription, red lining, Table of Contents, Table of Authorities, proofreading; prepared attorneys' daily billing and finalized monthly bills

Education

Advanced Paralegal Certification - LEGAL

BARBRI CLS
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12-2023

Skills

  • Microsoft Office, MSWord All Versions, CCC Macros, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, DOCS Open, iManage, FileSite, Interwoven, Time Trax, DTE, Legal Solutions, Compulaw, Comparite, Delta View, Best Authority, ALN Forms Workflow, Adobe Acrobat, Nuance, 80wpm
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Timeline

Litigation Secretary / Paralegal Hybrid

Miller Barondess, LLP
04.2021 - Current

Litigation Secretarial Support

GREENBERG GROSS LLP
01.2018 - Current

Litigation Secretarial Support

JENNER & BLOCK
03.2014 - 06.2016

Special Assignment Secretarial support

SIDLEY AUSTIN, LLP
05.2008 - 09.2012

Secretarial support

WALLER, LANSDEN, DORTCH & DAVIS LLP
01.2005 - 11.2007

Advanced Paralegal Certification - LEGAL

BARBRI CLS