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Work History
Education
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Military Experience
Relevant Skills
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Erin Pipes

Dallas,Texas

Summary

Highly skilled and experienced office professional with superior communication, administrative, and organizational skills. Detailed oriented, efficient, and capable with over 20 years of experience working in legal and governmental offices with extensive experience at managing deadlines, drafting reports and business correspondence, reviewing documents, entering time in payroll software, scheduling meetings, updating spreadsheets, and preparing presentations. Exceptional leadership and management skills.

Overview

Work History

Contract Document Reviewer

Multiple Document Review Firms
, Texas And Virginia
2010 - 2024
  • Legal document review in multiple civil actions in federal and state courts or on behalf of federal agencies
  • Claims covered a variety of legal issues including negligence tort actions, loan disputes, breach of contract, shareholder derivative suits, civil RICO, anti-competitive and antitrust investigations and suits, patent infringement, data breach incidents, medical mal-practice, pharmaceutical review, fraud, and environmental claims, as well as other legal disputes
  • Duties included analysis and research to identify relevant documents and coding for responsiveness, legal issues, privilege, confidentiality, PII/SHI, as well as preparing privilege log entries and performing redactions
  • Superior work performance frequently resulted in assignment to Quality Control teams.

Paralegal/IP Consultant

Intak Lee & Associates
Fairfax, Virginia
2015 - 2016
  • Drafted and advised on patent applications and developing IP strategy on behalf of NABAS Group, Inc
  • Prepared memos and PowerPoint presentations for marketing, project updates, application, and case status
  • Prepared office correspondence and legal documents relating to litigation and transactional legal work for non-IP clients including drafting pleadings, discovery requests, and legal memos.
  • Filed pleadings and paperwork with court clerk to meet strict deadlines.
  • Researched applicable statutes, codes, regulations, ordinances, and precedent cases.
  • Advised and formulated monetizing strategy for commercial applications and industrialization of IP portfolio.
  • Communicated with witnesses regarding deposition scheduling.
  • Provided administrative support such as answering phones or scheduling appointments.
  • Contacted witnesses and scheduled interviews and evaluations.
  • Drafted correspondence to clients and other attorneys.
  • Advised clients on procedural matters related to their cases.
  • Drafted discovery responses including interrogatories and requests for production of documents.

Patent Examiner

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia
2014 - 2015
  • Evaluated patent applications for patentability of claimed inventions in the medical imaging technical arts
  • Analyzed arguments raised in office action responses and determined merit of arguments for patentability
  • Prepared reply briefs in appeals to respond to applicant briefs arguing for patent allowance
  • Coordinated and scheduled applicant telephone interviews to discuss arguments for allowance.
  • Reviewed patent applications for compliance with legal requirements and technical specifications.
  • Conducted research on existing patents, scientific literature, and other sources of information.

IP Consultant/Paralegal

Multiple Law Firms
Texas and Louisiana
2000 - 2014
  • Performed patent prosecution duties for multiple clients, drafting applications, responding to office actions of the USPTO and EPO, preparing appeal briefs in patent applications with a final rejection, and achieved a 90% success rate in the pre-appeal brief stage of final rejections
  • Conducted legal research and drafted motions and briefs in patent prosecution cases and litigation cases
  • Analyzed patent claims and infringement allegations including preparing patent claim charts
  • Successfully developed winning technical and legal arguments for patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation
  • Prepared clients for depositions, drafted discovery requests and responses, and drafted pleadings
  • Supported litigation by organizing files and exhibits, preparing deposition summaries, writing memos regarding expected witness’ trial testimony and pre-trial depositions, and creating witness binders and trial notebooks.
  • Organized client meetings to provide project updates and determine response strategies.

Education

Juris Doctor -

Tulane Law School

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering -

University of Southern California

Skills

  • Time Management
  • Prioritization
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Work Ethic
  • Process/Procedures Development
  • Teamwork
  • Problem-Solving
  • Written and Verbal Communication
  • MS Office Proficient
  • Legal Brief Preparation
  • Legal Research
  • Legal Writing
  • Trained in the Air Force as a biomedical equipment specialist
  • Pilot License

Military Experience

U.S. Air Force/U.S. Air Force Reserve, Captain, Logistics Readiness Officer

Relevant Skills

ORGANIZATION

  • Developed checklists and forms to use during intake to collect critical information.
  • Designed a standardized computer file system organized by client and case with an easily updated docket for each principal.

COMMUNICATION

  • Performed standard office duties including answering telephones, responding to client communications, updating case docket, tracking projects' status, scanning correspondence into computer files, and entering time.
  • Created PowerPoint presentations as required by supervisors and briefed status of pending at staff meetings.
  • Tracked upcoming deadlines and open action items in multiple projects.

LEADERSHIP

  • Commissioned officer in the United States Air Force.
  • Responsible for the operation and management of 650 vehicles valued in excess of $13 million and physical infrastructure valued in excess of $243 million. Supervised up to 165 assigned personnel.
  • Served as project leader on several high profile Air Force programs including developing a cargo tracking and manifesting hardware and software system and arranging transportation support for recovery operation in the Columbia space shuttle tragedy.

Qualifications Summary

  • Highly skilled in E-Discovery document review with experience using of several legal review tools including Summation, Clearwell, Kroll, Relativity, Lumix, and Xera software platforms.
  • Professional experience extends to patents, trademarks, copyrights, criminal, bankruptcy, personal injury, torts, toxic torts, products liability, environmental, social security, employment, contract, ERISA, successions, medical malpractice, property, family law, landlord-tenant, workers’ compensation, and contracts.
  • Knowledge of litigation actions in both state and federal courts.
  • Competent with various legal research databases including Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Timeline

Contract Document Reviewer

Multiple Document Review Firms
2010 - 2024

Paralegal/IP Consultant

Intak Lee & Associates
2015 - 2016

Patent Examiner

United States Patent and Trademark Office
2014 - 2015

IP Consultant/Paralegal

Multiple Law Firms
2000 - 2014

Juris Doctor -

Tulane Law School

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering -

University of Southern California
Erin Pipes