Review complaints received and initiate case investigation to determine abuse, neglect, and civil rights violations, including reviewing client files, conducting legal visits and on-site institutional inspections to document deficiencies and systemic issues. Work with attorneys to provide support for complex litigation, including client interviews and correspondence, document requests and review, editing of pleadings, and document management. Conduct on-site facility and program monitoring within a variety of institutional settings, inspect and substantiate overall program deficiencies, and make recommendations for follow up. Skilled in procedures for obtaining public records in a variety of formats. Conduct thorough investigations of suspicious deaths in institutional settings. Process institutional intake received, open cases, review initial claims, and conduct weekly meetings regarding same. Superior electronic record keeping skills. Office management duties for branch office.

Provide civil rights advocacy to institutionalized people within the state of Florida, predominantly prisoners and civilly committed individuals. Conduct client interviews, record reviews, and draft public record requests in order to assist attorneys in compiling research to support claims. Maintain contact with family members of institutionalized clients. Overall litigation support.

Assist attorneys in high-dollar litigation actions by reviewing client files, organizing and producing documents, and preparing background materials for depositions. Conduct legal research to identify precedent cases in support of counsel’s pretrial arguments. Trial preparation and assistance.