Paralegal-extraordinaire and administrative professional with substantial experience in litigation support. Highly motivated, hard-working, and honest, with excellent educational history, paralegal (10+ years direct experience) and secretarial/administrative support experience, and a genuine desire to acquire more knowledge and be able to help others. I am a highly organized individual and take pride in staying on top of deadlines, and making sure the attorneys I support are aware of what needs to be done and when. I pride myself in knowing the ins and outs of legal procedure in California - especially appellate procedure. I love challenging work involving in-depth substantive tasks and legal research, but also enjoy being a part of a team and assisting that team in meeting and going beyond our goals. I graduated from an ABA-approved paralegal program (Fullerton College) with an Associate's Degree in Paralegal Studies and additionally a Paralegal Certificate. I had an amazing program director and professor there whose insights led me to become so passionate about this profession, and legal services in general. Additionally, being homeschooled as a child all the way from kindergarten through the end of high school, I learned to value learning, love reading, and excel at writing - values and habits that I retain and cherish to this day.Legal specialties: State and federal (including appellate) filing; drafting legal documents and forms; Legal research; Legal ethics; Legal software and technology tools (Lexis, Westlaw, Legal Solutions, PACER & CM/ECF); Experience with ediscovery software such as Relativity and DISCO; limited experience with Concordance, checking citations, reviewing case files, preparing summaries of depositions and discovery, drafting discovery requests, trial preparation including trial notebooks and preparing exhibitsAdministrative/technological specialties: excellent spelling and grammar, persuasive and efficient writing skills, professional email writing, typing 90+ WPM, Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat Pro (including compiling, bookmarking, bates stamping, preparing batch actions, headers and footers, page labeling), utilization of cloud based systems such as Sharepoint, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or Google Docs (also shockingly fast at finding information on the internet), ability to quickly adapt and learn new software or online systems, and ability to think outside the box to help develop systems and processes to more efficiently and effectively get the job done
Listed skills include Westlaw, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Pleadings, and 36 others.