Eileen Callahan Email & Phone Number

• Relationship Director for legal start-up software company, providing the Intellectual Property community and patent practitioners with a prior art database for accurately filing Information Disclosure Statements with.
• Collaborated to develop and market new services and tools directed to IP litigators.
• Created marketing campaigns, product announcements, new feature updates, and social media posts, increasing brand awareness and enhancing customer relations.
• Performed IP paralegal services, researched USPTO and Public PAIR databases, generated and filed IDSs, assisted with migration of client’s legacy data, created reports, and participated in client training sessions.
• Promoted from part-time to full-time January 2018.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Litigation paralegal with nationally known litigation firm specializing in the defense of commercial litigation, including aerospace, product liability, personal injury, property damage and premise liability.
• Drafted routine motions, orders, discovery, subpoenas, and record requests.
• Prepared and E-filed pleadings and exhibits via CM/ECF with state and federal courts and Lexis/Nexis, ensuring compliance with federal rules, local rules, e-filing, and court procedures.
• Researched records and obtained documents in PACER.
• Ascertained records needed to render clients' defense, issued requests and subpoenas for medical, billing, employment, and governmental records, as well as past court records, police records, and social media records.
• Analyzed and summarized records for key findings, prepared detailed reports and medical chronologies.

Chicago

• Senior litigation paralegal with top 50 firm. Supported Litigation Group from multiple offices, primarily focused on complex product liability matters in the medical device field, including multi-district litigation.
• Lead paralegal on Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit, representing pro bono client. Performed more than 500 hours of service preparing for and attending trial, communicating and working closely with the client.
• Lead paralegal on month-long out-of-state trial, assisted attorneys and trial consultants in the courtroom while maintaining and managing trial exhibits, exhibit lists, witness lists, and trial filings.
• Planned, set up, and maintained hotel, war room, and courtroom accommodations and logistics.
• Functioned as liaison for the trial team, witnesses, courtroom staff, and vendors.
• Collaborated with trial consultants and attorneys to create trial exhibits, video testimony, demonstratives, opening, and closing statements, and witness outlines.

Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP

• Senior litigation paralegal with trial-focused boutique firm. Supported 10 experienced trial lawyers defending commercial disputes, product liability mass tort and class action cases, and intellectual property matters.
• Served on National Trial Team for lengthy out-of-state pharmaceutical products liability trial, working with the trial team, co-counsel, and trial consultants.
• Prepared and organized witness binders, trial exhibits, trial exhibit lists, trial binders, and monitored trial exhibit status during trial.
• Maintained expert database, assisted with expert interviews, depositions, and trial preparation.
• Spearheaded selection of firm’s first document management system. Investigated eDiscovery platforms, evaluated proposals, managed vendor presentations, created budget, and assisted with firm’s selection of Relativity.

Chicago, Illinois

• Senior litigation paralegal worked alongside the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group on complex IP disputes including patent, trademark and copyright infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets.Also.
• Served as lead paralegal on more than two dozen trials, hearings, and arbitrations. Participated in all facets of trial and pre-trial work.
• Assisted with the preparation of pre-trial memoranda and orders, motions in limine, deposition designations, trial exhibit lists, witness lists, and other pre-trial and trial filings.
• Located off-site trial offices, coordinated the office and equipment set-up, and managed trial logistics for trial team, co-counsel, client and witnesses; acted as liaison between trial team, witnesses, court clerks.
• Attended trial and assisted attorneys and trial consultants in the courtroom while maintaining and handling exhibits, exhibit lists, witness lists, and trial material.
• Worked with attorneys, clients, opposing counsel, and experts to coordinate large volumes of eDiscovery and paper discovery, including document collection, review, and production.

• Environmental litigation paralegal supporting Environmental Legal Department General Counsel, in-house attorneys, and outside counsel with litigation matters and investigations.
• Performed off-site document reviews across the country.
• Monitored compliance violations and prepared reports for General Counsel.
• Investigated and prepared corporate histories for WMI subsidiaries.

• Prepared cases for trial.
• Conducted and coordinated off-site document reviews.
• Assisted attorneys with deposition preparation and attended of town depositions.
• Summarized medical records and deposition transcripts.

• Assisted attorneys with insurance defense and subrogation matters.
• Drafted memoranda and correspondence and prepared individual case report for clients.
• Located witnesses and conducted interviews.
• Performed factual research.