Alysha "Aly" Thomas Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Florida, United States

Assisted eight (8) lawyers, including two (2) board-certified trial lawyers and six (6) top 100-ranked trial lawyers in civil litigation to recover damages for clients.• Case manager for 40-50 active cases • Administrative duties include scheduling hearings, court-ordered deadlines, managing case files, and maintaining pleading and discovery indexes. Tracking and following up on these communications and requests. •Managing Attorney calendars.• Assisted the Attorney with drafting, proofreading, and formatting legal pleadings. • Identifies legal liability and pursues, negotiates, and settles subrogation collections and medical bills. • Organize and review evidence and legal documents for case preparation, including complaints, discovery requests, motions, memorandums, subpoenas, and Notice of Intent to Litigation. • Prepare Discovery: communicate with opposing counsel to receive pleadings, draft discovery shells, review with the client, collect necessary documents, provide for attorney review, make corrections, and e-file responses. • Assists with compliance with Title VI, Chapter 45 of the Civil Procedure Code.• Other tasks include reviewing discovery requests and responsive documents, tracking incoming discovery, drafting good faith correspondence, drafting discovery motions to compel, pulling case law, and assisting with creating hearing notebooks for hearings. Finally, review hearing transcripts and draft responsive Court Orders.• Experience in state and Federal court procedures and filing requirements, including e-filing in state and Federal courts. • Understand court requirements to calculate deadlines and ensure the attorney and team meet them.• Prepared trial documents, exhibits, and other demonstrative evidence.

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Area

Practice: Immigration/Labor and Employment • Prepare, edit, and file Petitions and Applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services• Forms: I-129 (H-1B/H-2B/L-1/E-1/E-2/TN), I-539 (H-4), I-140 (Employer Sponsored Green Card), I-485 (Green Card Application) N-400, among others. • Maintain and manage case files, track cases, determine related deadlines, respond to status inquiries, and record I-797 expiration dates in case management software. • Secretarial duties; answering incoming calls, preparing I-797 Notices for shipment, managing attorney calendars, file opening, time entry, scheduling depositions, and billing coordination.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Responsible for educating club members by coordinating meetings and providing well-researched and factual information on various international social justice issues. • Aided the Richmond community through self-organized volunteer campaigns• Lead organizer for Amnesty International’s Annual “Write for Rights” Campaign freeing the wrongly incarcerated around the world

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Project supported by the US Department of Homeland Security• International focus groups investigated the attitudes of Syrian refugees living in foreign countries granting asylum. Similarly, the attitudes of citizens acclimating to Syrian refugees in their home country. • Responsible for transcribing, analyzing, and coding transcripts of various refugee host countries and refugee focus groups located around the world using MAXQDA program.

Chesterfield, Virginia, United States

•Oversaw the transition of court case documents into case management software • Performed routine office tasks such as preparing correspondence, drafting meeting minutes, preparing court documents for the docket date • Receptionist duties, answer the phone, route calls, and take messages