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Senior paralegal directly supporting regulatory department of seven attorneys and indirectly supporting policy advocacy group of 12 analysts concerning electricity and natural gas matters.Conduct daily monitoring of federal filings and issuances as well as state filings and issuances for summary and circulation.Organize and maintain filings calendar and responsible for filing with FERC and various state regulatory commissions, regulatory and policy advocacy filings.Organize and maintain various proceeding trackers as well as a virtual “file-room” for company regulatory filings.Research federal and state case law and statues; electricity and natural gas tariffs; and NERC reliability standards for legal research and regulatory compliance filings.At the direction of counsel, prepare memoranda of law and briefs.Prepare shells of various legal pleadings such as interventions, comments, protests, requests for waiver, testimony, answers to comments and protests, etc., for attorney review and filing with FERC and various state utility and public service commissions.Proofread and edit regulatory filings and Bluebook citations.Adept in reviewing and summarizing various regulatory filings and decisions.

Senior paralegal supporting seven partners and four associates of the Energy Markets and Regulation department, with an emphasis on electricity regulatory law, and exposure to natural gas regulatory law.At the direction of counsel, prepared memoranda of law and briefs, as well as court pleadings including motions to intervene, summons and subpoena, discovery documents and notice of appeals for attorney review and filing in both United States Circuit Court of Appeals and FERC.Researched and maintained a developments chart of all United States Circuit Court of Appeals proceedings clients were involved in.Researched both statutory and case law to be included in points and authorities for motions and briefs.Created and maintained exhibit and case law notebooks in preparation for trial.Under attorney review, authored articles regarding various state and federal regulatory policy issues for inclusion in the Energy Markets and Regulation’s Energy Legal Blog and ghost wrote portions of articles submitted to various energy law journals and trade-press magazines.Responsible for the daily maintenance of the Legal Blog including ensuring that all cites are verified, and all external authorities and websites are linked to the appropriate articles.

Paralegal in a leading Phoenix law firm specializing in commercial law, securities law and complex litigation.At the direction of counsel, prepared memoranda of law and briefs and discovery documents.Researched both statutory and case law to be included in points and authorities for motions.Created and maintained exhibit and case law notebooks in preparation for trial.At the direction of counsel, prepared court pleadings, including shells for complaints, answers, and non-uniform interrogatories, stipulations for settlements, motions to dismiss, third-party complaints, summons and subpoenas, and notice of appeals for filing.Drafted questions used by attorneys in depositions and prepared deposition exhibits.Performed document reviews under supervision of attorneys.Reviewed contracts and prepared briefs to attorneys regarding relevant points.Assisted attorneys in preparing for, and supported them during court appearances, depositions and client interviews.