Meghan Reed
Nashville
Summary
Seasoned Project Manager with experience in executing complex projects within diverse industries. Proven ability to drive teams towards achieving project goals while adhering to timelines and budgets. Demonstrated strengths include strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Past work has resulted in successful project completion, improved efficiency, and significant cost savings.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Paralegal & Legal Assistant
Fisher & Phillips, LLP
Nashville
02.2020 - Current
- Assist multiple attorneys (7) with various aspects of employment law and litigation, including drafting of pleadings (complaints, notices, proposed orders, motions (dismiss, stay, summary judgment, etc.))
- Able to electronically file documents with various courts across multiple states, including federal, state (circuit, chancery, probate), and appellate
- Extensive experience with multi-plaintiff litigation, including FLSA, collective, and class action cases
- Assist with various excel projects including extensive calculations of back wages, potential damages, liability, and exposure
- Benefits and tax work, ERISA, filing and communicating with the IRS
- Draft position statements to EEOC and NLRB and file with respective agencies
- Draft and revise employment handbooks and policies
- Electronic discovery review among multiple platforms, including Relativity and KLDiscovery
- Perform background and social media checks on individuals and summarize/analyze
- Draft initial discovery requests and responses as well as prepare extensive document productions; perform in depth review/analysis of productions and summarize
- Draft undertakings and joint defense agreements
- Entrusted with highly confidential work product
- Consistently meet billable hour requirements set forth by Firm
- Assisted with development of new office and help grow it from 3 attorneys to 7, as well as training new support staff
Legal Assistant
Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC
Nashville
06.2017 - 02.2020
- Assist multiple attorneys (4) within the Finance/Real Estate, Corporate/Transactional, Construction Litigation and Trusts/Estate Planning practice groups
- Transcribe various dictation including pleadings, legal memos and real estate documents; organize and maintain multiple client files in local document management system; schedule and organize client meetings, mediations/arbitrations, etc
- Prepare real estate documents (i.e
- Leases, deeds, financing statements, affidavits, release documents, consents/resolutions, etc.); assist in closing transactions
- Prepare organizational documents relating to the formation of entities, mergers of entities, amendments to organizational documents, termination of entities and process organizational documents for filing with appropriate jurisdictions; create stock certificates and maintain stock ledgers
- Obtain Employer Identification Numbers for clients; file Form D's with the Securities Exchange Commission; create, manage, and maintain minute books and corporate binders
- Draft trust/estate planning documents (i.e
- Wills and trusts) and record/file with appropriate jurisdictions
Practice Assistant
K&L Gates LLP
Portland
06.2015 - 06.2017
- Assist multiple attorneys (4) within the Finance, Real Estate/Investment, Corporate/Transactional and Litigation practice groups
- Create, edit and proofread letters, legal documents, and memos; organize and maintain all correspondence and documents in local document management system; schedule meetings and coordinate all logistics for assigned attorneys, including domestic and international travel
- Prepare pleadings, motions, notices, routine discovery and correspondence; manage and monitor status of court filings; electronic filings within Federal and State Courts
- Prepare monthly client bills; prepare expense reports; open files and conduct conflict checks
- Member of Social and Wellness Committees, which includes scheduling, planning and organizing all company events (Holiday Party, Summer Party, tournaments, etc.), charity events, and researching and contacting appropriate groups
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish, General Social Sciences with an emphasis in Globalization, Environment and Policy
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR06.2014
Skills
- Spanish
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- BigHand
- OneNote
- Leftronics
- Salesforce
- CRM
- Elite
- LegalKey
- Document Management Systems
- Federal and State Court Rules of Tennessee
- Federal and State Court Rules of Arkansas
- Federal and State Court Rules of Mississippi
- Federal and State Court Rules of Georgia
- Federal and State Court Rules of Maryland
- Federal and State Court Rules of Florida
- Notary Public in Tennessee
- Legal research
- Pleading drafting
- Electronic filings
- Document management
- Discovery processes
- Regulatory compliance
- Client communication
- Time management
- Critical thinking
- Team collaboration
- Record keeping
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Training support staff
- Exceptional writer
- Legal writing
- Civil litigation
- Documenting
- Research and data collection
- Document filing
- Proficient in MS office
- Litigation support
- Calendar management
- Court filing
- Policy research
- Notary public
- Deposition scheduling
- Legal transcription
- Proofreading
- Financial and estate planning
- File organization
- Contract review
- Office administration
- Administrative support
- Attorney support
- File pleadings
- Exhibit preparation
- Document drafting
- Project management
- Case management
- Deposition summaries
- Discovery management
- Legal compliance
- Case summaries
- Troubleshooting complex problems
- Legal evaluation
- Database research
- Legal research skills
- Brief writing
- Subpoena coordination
- Trial preparation assistance
- Motion drafting
- Calendar oversight
- File and records management
- Expertise in legal proceedings
- Legal case files
Certification
Notary Public in Tennessee
Timeline
Paralegal & Legal Assistant
Fisher & Phillips, LLP
02.2020 - Current
Legal Assistant
Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC
06.2017 - 02.2020
Practice Assistant
K&L Gates LLP
06.2015 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish, General Social Sciences with an emphasis in Globalization, Environment and Policy
University of Oregon
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