Legal Assistant
Current• Legal assistant for senior shareholder, shareholders and associates on 3-1 and 4-1 litigation desk assignments• Performed all duties of a litigation legal assistant: Edit/proofread, finalize, file & serve pleadings, motions, TOC/TOA, discovery, subpoenas, correspondence, transcription, court filings, redlining of documents; ensure legal documents are processed and handled in a timely and efficient manner in order to comply with appropriate regulations and deadlines• E-filings in State Court (Orange Co.), California Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, Ninth Circuit• Calendar court hearings, deadlines (discovery/motion, etc.), trial calendars, meetings, recurring meetings, setting depositions; daily track, maintain and follow up on calendars and deadlines• Check status of cases, court documents through use of various online court docket systems• Interaction with court personnel, opposing counsel, clients, court reporters• Special projects: track calendar events of large project cases; create case matter sheets, perform regular docket checks and track calendar events on related monitored out-of-state actions• Word processing/Overflow - Format/edit, proofread long documents (discovery, MPAs, etc.), TOA/TOC, pleadings, correspondence; format/edit real estate transactional documents, i.e., loan documents, various agreements, etc., redlining
