Jessica Daks Email & Phone Number

Jericho, New York, United States

• Support three Partners and four Associates in daily case management• Manage cases from initiation through trial• Prepare deposition, witness and trial binders• Collect and organize various documents received during discovery and maintain indices• Prepare and organize exhibits for motions • Create spreadsheets analyzing various aspects of the parties financial data• Draft various pleadings, discovery designations and discovery responses• Coordinate obtaining medical records as necessary and provide to our experts for review• File and serve various documents as required • Pull cases cited in various briefs for attorney review• Maintain, update and organize client files

* Support three Partners in daily case management ; * Draft third party subpoenas for the production of documents and witness depositions ; * Coordinate court reporting services and process servers ; * Prepare deposition notices ; * Organize and pull together exhibits for upcoming depositions ; * Perform research to assist in the preparation of discovery responses ; * Review and index voluminous document productions received from opposing counsel ; * Bates stamp and produce documents responsive to discovery requests and subpoenas ; * Perform background checks on parties of potential cases ; * E-file documents with federal and state courts ; * Maintain, update and organize client files * Assist in the preparation of motions * Assemble documents for use at depositions. ; * Perform other miscellaneous projects and tasks as requested by attorneys

* Support two Partners and one Associate with case management of national and local cases ; * Manage the firm's dates and deadlines calendar to ensure case deadlines are met ; * Review and analyze plaintiff's summons and complaints ; * Open and close case files ; * E-filing answers and various other documents on behalf of clients ; * Oversee various discovery requests and ensure they are served on time ; * Serve discovery on opposing counsel and notify co-defendants in accordance with case management orders ; * Provide attorneys with factual support for motions ; * Assist with and maintain document reviews and productions ; * Prepare deposition digests to assist attorneys with case evaluation ; * Write memorandums summarizing discovery served by opposing counsel ; * Correspond with local counsel regarding the status of all open cases ; * Inform insurers of the dismissal of cases, inform attorneys of settlement demands received from opposing counsel ; * Track the amount and date of settlement of closed cases for reporting purposes and determine estimated settlement values of open cases to report to our clients for quarterly accounting purposes

* Assisted the paralegals with real estate transactional closings, including drafting closing statements ; * Created and organized closing binders ; * Maintained CD file and chart; corporate maintenance for numerous corporate subsidiary/affiliate kits and files, including creating files, photocopying, scanning, uploading and filing entity-related documents into virtual files (NetDocs) and corporate kits/files; ; * Sent dissolved and cancelled entity kits/files to storage; updated various entity-related charts for tracking purpose

Bachelor Of Science, Sociology

* Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society Member (Upsilon Chapter) ;

Approved Paralegal Certificate Program, Paralegal Studies

* Lambda Epsilon Chi (LEX) Member- National Paralegal Honor Society ; * Recipient of the Academic Area Award in Legal Studies ;