Use computerized legal research systems, law library, and the internal legal resources to perform basic legal research. Review briefs for substantive and technical accuracy.File documents electronically with courts as required.Analyze facts of a lawsuit and gather documents from various University departments; inventory documents and log them, and produce documents to opposing counsel under Rules of Civil Procedure. Review Interrogatories and determine the information needed to respond and identify sources of the required information.Contact witnesses for statements. Schedule meetings with witnesses, depositions, and trial preparation meetings. Draft questions for witnesses.Assist in preparing witnesses for deposition and court appearances.Read and analyze depositions. Compare testimony of witnesses with facts of case. Prepare summaries for use in trial preparation.Assist attorneys in trial preparation. Gather and prepare trial exhibits. Set pre-trial preparation meetings with key witnesses.Assist attorneys during trial.Prepare chronologies or summaries of litigation files and internal appeal files. Requires analytic skills, accuracy and knowledge of University policies.Interact with local, state, and federal court personnel as needed.Day-to-day oversight of 4 FT legal secretaries, 3 paralegals and 2 GRA’s.Payroll entry for exempt and non-exempt staff; approval of leave for non-exempt staff.Publication, subscription, and outside counsel invoice payments.Travel preparation and reimbursement paperwork for General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel.Create and maintain current reports of activity on litigation and litigation hold tracking database.Maintain equipment inventory; prepare annual space inventory; respond to annual self-assessment of controls to Audit.Assist General Counsel with searches for open exempt positions according to Equity & Diversity guidelines.

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Full range of legal secretarial duties, including typing, transcription, time entry, maintaining litigation files, travel preparation and reimbursement paperwork

Worked for medical malpractice attorney. Full range of legal secretarial duties and graduated to paralegal responsibilities, including setting depositions, drafting answers to interrogatories, gathering documents for responses to requests for production, summarizing depositions, drafting memos and correspondence