TAYLOR CARLSON
Jacksonville,FL
Summary
Professional with strong background in legal support, equipped to handle variety of tasks in fast-paced environment. Expertise in legal research, document management, and case preparation, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Known for effective team collaboration and adaptability, always focused on achieving results and meeting deadlines. Strong organizational skills and proactive approach to problem-solving make for reliable asset.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PARALEGAL
TAYLOR ENGLISH DUMA LLP
02.2024 - Current
- Drafting legal documents for example: Interrogatories, Request for Production, Subpoenas, Summons, Answer to Complaint, Notice of Hearing/Deposition, Notice of Filing Affidavits of Service, etc.
- Scheduling hearings, depositions, and inspections.
- Calendaring Case Management Orders to meet Court deadlines.
- Preparing binders for hearings, depositions, inspections for attorneys and Judges, and mediation.
- Capturing time for paralegal work.
- Communications with process servers to serve Summons, subpoenas, etc.
- Scheduling Court Reporter for Depositions and Hearings.
- Client communications on updates on case.
- Scheduling calls with clients, opposing counsel, etc.
- Drafting Settlement Agreements and arranging settlement checks.
- Calendaring Court Orders.
- Assisting with drafting/filing Complaint and Summons.
- Managed scheduling of court calendars and deadlines to maintain smooth flow of firm operations.
- Reduced attorney workload by drafting routine legal documents such as pleadings, motions, and affidavits.
- Enhanced case efficiency by organizing and maintaining legal documents, files, and correspondence.
- Ensured compliance with court rules and procedures by accurately preparing and submitting legal filings within established timeframes.
- Summarized depositions, legal documents and other material to provide attorney with relevant material for cases.
PARALEGAL
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Insurance Defense
- Summarizing Discovery Responses to obtain claimants medical, billing, pharmaceutical, etc. records to subpoena medical care providers.
- Scheduling inspections for personal injury, construction defect, and premise liability cases.
- Hiring certain experts for example: (podiatrist, accident reconstruction, radiologist, medical billing, internal medicine etc.) Checking for conflicts, preparing all medical records to send to expert, sending retainer to expert, and scheduling conference call between associate and expert.
- Calendaring Case Management Orders to meet court deadlines.
- Preparing Medical Chronology and billing summary.
- Prepping associates for hearings, depositions, and mediations.
- Assisting 1 partner and 4 associates with over 140 cases in personal injury, construction defect, premise liability cases in insurance defense litigation.
- Prepare budgets for our clients to give them the estimated cost on case.
- Review company file, for insurance information, accident report, any medical records and billing records pre-suit.
- Draft Subpoenas, authorizations, and public records request to obtain records.
- Billing for all paralegal work.
- Managing my assistant, to ensure all work is captured, status on obtaining records requests, import and bill records, etc.
- Preparing witness and exhibit list to be filed with Court's deadline.
- Summarized depositions, legal documents and other material to provide attorney with relevant material for cases.
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Insurance Defense
- Assist 1 partner and 3 associates including entering time, scheduling depositions, hearings, and mediations.
- Drafting initial discovery requests and shells for attorney to respond to discovery.
- Capturing all attorneys time each month.
- E-filing pleadings and discovery requests.
- Communicating with Judicial Assistants and/or researching online to schedule hearing in accordance with the judges’ procedures.
- Managed high-volume workload while maintaining strict attention to detail on every task.
- Insurance Defense
PARALEGAL ASSISTANT
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Insurance Defense
- Assisting 1 paralegal with over 120 cases in personal injury, construction defect, premise liability and security negligence cases in insurance defense litigation.
- Drafting record requests including Subpoenas, Authorizations, Public Record Requests and FOIA Requests.
- Calendaring reminders for the paralegal and to follow-up on records.
- Billing for the paralegal for subpoenas, follow-ups and preparing the attorney.
- Follow up on medical and record requests.
- Prepare binders to prepare the attorney for hearings, depositions, and inspections.
- Communicating with Judicial Assistants and/or researching online to prepare courtesy copies to the Judge according to their procedures.
- E-filing notices of production, certificate of non-objections, pleadings, Propounding Discovery to Plaintiffs and Defendants etc.
- Researched and analyzed legal issues and cases to provide accurate advice to clients.
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
CASE COORDINATOR LEAD
Farah and Farah
05.2019 - 11.2020
- Handling all new claims and cases coming through the call center.
- Setting up initial conference calls with clients to advise them of their attorney and sending referral to see a medical provider if needed.
- Getting crash reports for cases.
- Assigning legal teams to each case.
- Managed over 300 assigned cases and projects.
- Trained new case coordinators, sharing best practices and enhancing team capabilities.
- Managed complex cases with sensitivity, navigating challenges with professionalism and empathy.
Education
High School Diploma -
BALDWIN MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH
Baldwin, FL BBA - Business Administration
BRYANT STRATTON COLLEGE
01-2022
Skills
- Positive Attitude
- Written and verbal Communication Skills
- Type over 40wpm
- Computer proficiency
- Problem-solving abilities
- Leadership skills
- Florida Court E-Filing Portal
- PACER/LexisNexis
- Drafting Legal Documents
- Time management
- Client communication
- Billing accuracy
- Attention to detail
- Record keeping
- Discovery requests
- Calendar management
- Writing and editing
- Administrative assistance
- Effective multitasking
- Proofreading
Certification
- Notary Public – State Government or designated state authority.
Timeline
PARALEGAL
TAYLOR ENGLISH DUMA LLP
02.2024 - Current
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
PARALEGAL ASSISTANT
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
PARALEGAL
Roberts, Reynolds, Bedard, & Tuzzio, PLLC
11.2020 - 02.2024
CASE COORDINATOR LEAD
Farah and Farah
05.2019 - 11.2020
High School Diploma -
BALDWIN MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH
BBA - Business Administration
BRYANT STRATTON COLLEGE
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