Tia Simmons
Summary
Experienced litigation paralegal and legal operations professional with 10 years dedicated to complex civil cases in state and federal courts. Manages multi-jurisdictional mass tort work across 19 states, including product liability and personal injury matters. Directs workflow through efficient allocation, deadline management, quality review, and training, leveraging operational data to enhance processes.
Overview
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1
Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior MDL Paralegal
The Webb Law Centre, PLLC
Charleston, West Virginia
01.2025 - Current
- Coordinate multi-jurisdictional mass-tort litigation and related legal work across nineteen states, supporting matters from intake through discovery, settlement, and trial preparation.
- Supported high-volume MDL, medical-malpractice, products-liability, bankruptcy, and complex civil litigation, ensuring consistent workflows across jurisdictions.
- Draft complaints, dispositive and procedural motions, motions in limine, discovery responses, Rule 68 communications, deposition outlines, and trial materials.
- Managed multi-plaintiff discovery and maintained litigation calendars and tracking systems, coordinating effectively with clients, experts, opposing counsel, courts, and outside stakeholders.
- (hybrid)
Supervising Paralegal
Sharp Law Firm, LLC
Houston, Texas
01.2024 - 01.2026
- Coordinated daily workflow for construction-defect, product-liability, and complex litigation matters by organizing attorney priorities into actionable assignments and deadlines.
- Facilitated document-intensive discovery for multi-party matters by reviewing and analyzing discovery requests, responses, procedural motions, deposition materials, and evidentiary exhibits.
- Trained and supervised paralegal staff while conducting performance evaluations and delivering constructive feedback.
- Built matter-tracking, task-management, and communication practices that improved visibility into workload, deadlines, and case status across remote team.
- Reviewed and implemented AI-assisted and automated workflows for document analysis, research support, information organization, and quality control while maintaining confidentiality and attorney oversight.
- (Remote)
Senior Paralegal
Bond Law Legal Group, PC
Menifee, California
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Supported high-volume state and federal litigation by handling pleadings, discovery, Rule 26(f) reports, calendaring, settlement communications, and matter-status updates.
- Developed firmwide tracking systems to streamline discovery, scheduling, and case-management for attorneys and opposing counsel.
- Executed tasks from a home office, maintaining effective communication with the team to support case progression.
Senior Paralegal
Karish & Bjorgum; Bjorgum Law, PC
Pasadena, California
01.2011 - 01.2023
- Directed support for complex corporate litigation, bankruptcy-related disputes, trust administration, and transactional matters involving sophisticated client interests.
- Supported complex corporate litigation, bankruptcy-related disputes, trust administration, and transactional matters for high-value client interests, ensuring thorough preparation and compliance with legal standards.
- Streamlined coordination of client matters and document workflows in a remote setting, improving efficiency and collaboration among team members.
- Coordinated client matters and managed documents remotely, enhancing document accessibility and communication among stakeholders.
- Drafted litigation and transactional materials, including memoranda of understanding, promissory instruments, pleadings, discovery, and client correspondence; maintained confidential records and deadline tracking systems.
- Prepared litigation and transactional documents, including memoranda of understanding, promissory instruments, pleadings, discovery, and client communications; managed confidential records and deadline systems.
- Drafted litigation and transactional documents, including memoranda of understanding, promissory instruments, pleadings, discovery, and client communications, while maintaining confidential records and deadline systems.
- Implemented remote processes to ensure consistent service delivery and effective organization of tasks.
- Implemented remote processes to ensure consistent service delivery and effective organization of tasks.
Education
J.D. - Law
Purdue Law School
Lafayette, IN05-2028
Master of Science - App. Economics
Southern New Hampshire University
New Hampshire01-2023
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH01-2022
Skills
- Litigation support
- Document management
- Trial preparation
- Complex litigation support
- Document drafting
- Legal research
- Contract review
- Bankruptcy law
- Expert in bankruptcies
- Statutory interpretation
- Civil law expertise
- Corporate law expertise
- Property law knowledge
- File pleadings and document filing
- Records management
- Client intake
- Exceptional writing skills
- Brief writing
- Proofreading
- Attention to detail
- Negotiation and conflict mediation
- Conflict mediation
- Virtual collaboration tools
- Notary public
- Corporate law
- Conflict mediation
- Virtual collaboration tools
Certification
- Mass Torts Made Perfect - Multi-district Litigation Paralegal Certificate, Wassmuth Center for Human Rights - Human Rights Certificate, Legal Analysis Microcredential - Purdue Law School
Affiliations
- ACAN - Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals - Member
- Automatic Benefit for Children Coalition, Parent Advisory Board Member since May 2024
- Moms Rising - 2026 Cohort
- RESULTS - Organizing and Advocacy Fellowship, 2024 and 2025
- Cato Institute, Washington D.C. - Research Intern, Office of Budget and Entitlement Policy, Fall 2023
- American Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
Publications
Simmons, T. N. (2025). The Equity Dead Zones: Legal Intersectionality Failure Points in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. The Guardianship Journal, 1(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/3066-8468.1028
Timeline
Senior MDL Paralegal
The Webb Law Centre, PLLC
01.2025 - Current
Supervising Paralegal
Sharp Law Firm, LLC
01.2024 - 01.2026
Senior Paralegal
Bond Law Legal Group, PC
01.2022 - 01.2024
Senior Paralegal
Karish & Bjorgum; Bjorgum Law, PC
01.2011 - 01.2023
J.D. - Law
Purdue Law School
Master of Science - App. Economics
Southern New Hampshire University
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Southern New Hampshire University