Lisa Green
Portland,OR
Summary
Organized, motivated and dedicated employee eager to apply time management and organizational skills in various environments. Seeking entry-level opportunities for transition to new field using my past expertise and expand on current skill-set.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Paralegal
Law Firm of Tara Herivel
05.2023 - 03.2024
- Support for solo-practitioner with habeas cases with claims of unconstitutional conditions of confinement in prison
- Call-intake for potential clients
- Detail heavy work including spreadsheet creation including daily revisions
- Call scheduling with experts, clients and legal team
- Review, request and organize discovery
- Case management including Dropbox folder organization
- Prepare and organize FTR audio files including conversion
- Draft pleadings and e-file in state court
- Heavy billing and invoice submission to Oregon Public Defense Commission
- Prepare evidence for submission at trial including declaration citation.
Paralegal
Boly Welch, Portland
09.2019 - 04.2020
- Assist team of employment attorneys in all aspects of discovery process
- Draft initial discovery responses
- Review documents produced by opposing counsel for completeness
- Review medical records and employment records and create timelines and summaries of same
- Communicate with clients for obtaining documents for production and electronic discovery logistics
- Prepare binders and key documents for attorney review in preparation for arbitration and trial
- Heavy review of documents for relevance and privilege in Concordance
- Extensive communication with ESI team regarding best practices for review and production of voluminous electronic documents
- Extensive consultation with forensic experts regarding examination of digital devices regarding employment contract case.
Paralegal
Boly Welch, Portland
04.2019 - 08.2019
- Review client documents in Eclipse SE for responsiveness, privilege and identification of key documents in preparation for responding to discovery requests
- Review co-defendant document productions in construction defect complex litigation case for issues, facts and to assist with case strategy and upcoming depositions
- Draft preliminary document review summaries and memos for further attorney review.
Legal Assistant
Federal Public Defender, Portland
08.2017 - 03.2019
- Support 3 assistant federal public defenders with extremely heavy workloads
- Draft correspondence, plea petitions, motions and declarations; format motions and appeal briefs including using Tables of Authorities
- Manage over 70 case files (hard and electronic)
- Calendar meetings, appointments and client visits in Outlook Calendar; Confer with U.S
- Marshals, jails and state and federal prisons to set up client phone calls and visits
- E-file documents on ECF district court and 9th circuit court of appeals websites
- Prepare indigent defense fund loans for clients reentering from prison to halfway house; Confer with clients upon reentry and provide clothing, community referrals, identification cards and general emotional support.
Legal Assistant
Boly Welch, Portland
04.2017 - 07.2017
- Support for one Probate Attorney (Oregon and California practice areas)
- E-file documents and case research in OJIN
- Record Grant Deeds in Washington and Multnomah counties
- Draft, edit, format and proofread pleadings and correspondence
- Enter cases and events into Compulaw Vision
- Manage attorney travel, appointments and hearings in Outlook Calendar
- Create and maintain pleading indexes
- Hard file maintenance.
Special Project/Data Entry
Department of Elections, Santa Barbara
10.2016 - 12.2016
- Process voter registrations and provisional ballots including research
- Review, organize and prepare rosters
- Update voter information in database post-election.
Hotline Counselor
Tenants Together, San Francisco
10.2015 - 05.2016
- Provide tenants with information regarding unlawful detainers and foreclosures
- Counsel California tenants on all eviction/landlord concerns and provide referrals, information and sample landlord letters; Build tenant member base from grassroots level
- Training regarding SF specific rent control issues
- Input and manage data in Salesforce.
Paralegal
Fox Rothschild, San Francisco
03.2015 - 10.2015
- Prepare exhibits for mediations, depositions and settlement conferences
- Compile and analyze evidence for summary judgment
- Conduct extensive document review in Relativity for relevance and privilege
- Review employment and medical records and create timelines and chronologies for initial attorney review.
Senior Paralegal
Dillingham & Murphy, SF
07.2006 - 07.2013
- Supported 5 employment litigation attorneys
- Trained and managed paralegals and case clerks
- Involved in all aspects of discovery including assisting with drafting discovery responses
- Legal research and factual investigation
- Reviewed and coded high volume of documents for relevance in Summation for production and further attorney review
- Created timelines and chronologies (medical and employment)
- Assisted and attended 4 trials in federal and state court (plaintiff)
- Preparation of jury instructions and voir dire, drafted trial subpoenas, created trial exhibit binders and PowerPoint visual presentations, jury observation in courtroom
- Jury verdict and expert witness research
- Summarized depositions; Drafted subpoenas and prepared subpoena orders.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
Film, Art, Spanish -
City College of San Francisco
Skills
- Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Access
- Filemaker Pro
- Raiser’s Edge 7
- Summation
- Orion
- DTE Axiom
- FileShare
- Iphoto
- Imovie
- Relativity 8
- Clearwell 712
- Nuance Power PDF
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- IManage Worksite
- WestlawNext
- Salesforce software
- Compulaw Vision
- One Note
- Carpe Diem
- CasePoint
- TextMap
- CaseMap
- IManage
- MacPac Numbering
- Box
- BlueJeans
- Concordance
- Eclipse SE
- Dropbox
- FTR Player
Timeline
Paralegal
Law Firm of Tara Herivel
05.2023 - 03.2024
Paralegal
Boly Welch, Portland
09.2019 - 04.2020
Paralegal
Boly Welch, Portland
04.2019 - 08.2019
Legal Assistant
Federal Public Defender, Portland
08.2017 - 03.2019
Legal Assistant
Boly Welch, Portland
04.2017 - 07.2017
Special Project/Data Entry
Department of Elections, Santa Barbara
10.2016 - 12.2016
Hotline Counselor
Tenants Together, San Francisco
10.2015 - 05.2016
Paralegal
Fox Rothschild, San Francisco
03.2015 - 10.2015
Senior Paralegal
Dillingham & Murphy, SF
07.2006 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
Film, Art, Spanish -
City College of San Francisco
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