Paralegal
Oklahoma Attorney General's Office
Oklahoma City, OK
09.2014 - 02.2021
- Managed day-to-day legal activities for the Utility Regulation Unit with three attorneys and three regulatory analysts.
- Scheduled and placed events on the group Outlook calendar, such as hearing dates, pleading due dates and meetings.
- Communicated with outside vendors/consultants on behalf of attorneys, regulatory analysts and finance department.
- Conferred with involved parties to gather and track case information.
- Researched state statutes, decisions, legal articles, codes and documents.
- Examined and generated memos on statutory law, case law and federal and state regulations using online research databases, such as Westlaw, and print sources.
- Collected, drafted and maintained legal resources to provide comprehensive materials accessible to Unit attorneys.
- Drafted highly researched and articulate motions, briefs and contracts.
- Mitigated Unit's workload by reviewing and evaluating legal documents, including pleadings and discovery materials.
- Finalized documents by proofreading for citation errors, typographical errors, and particularly unclear sentence structure.
- Monitored and organized all in-coming e-mails from the Outlook group inbox, forwarding case related e-mails and attachments to assigned attorneys.
- Utilized the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's online Case Processing system.
- Organized and maintained the Unit's physical case files and electronic shared drive case folder and discovery log/folder.
- Assisted counsel in preparing answers, providing documentation and information for discovery request.
- Coordinated hearing trial exhibits by organizing and preparing documents.
- Filed pleadings in person at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission Court Clerk's Office.
- Served and disseminated filings via e-mail to all appropriate parties involved in a case.
- Closed cases after a final order is issued by the OCC.
