Assist in responding to claims from attorneys and agencies (such as the DLSE and DOL), including investigating, gathering relevant data, summarizing results and drafting responses to such claims; support attorneys in routine matters such as drafting general releases, settlement releases, consulting agreements, cease and desist letters and demand letters; monitor and analyse changes in law impacting Human Resources (“HR”), involves working with HR Compliance Group and entering data into database; conduct legal research, including multi-state, create and maintain charts of employment laws for HR Legal and HR Compliance Groups; review and respond to Qualified Domestic Relations Orders.

Provide assistance in employment/labor, California premises asbestos litigation, and supporting high profile litigation efforts. Conduct complex (often multi-state) legal research, analyse and summarize the results, assist in all phases of discovery including: gathering information and documents, document and privilege reviews, creating privilege logs, maintaining case files and resource library. Review and response to subpoenas and employment related information requests, Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Joinders on benefit plans, bankruptcy notices, garnishments, and levies, and preparing form documents. Act as liaison between the Payroll Department and the Law Department. Tender lawsuits to successor companies. Collaborate in gathering and maintaining documents for a data room in response to corporate merger.

Provided assistance in employment/labor, trademark, and other areas of law, namely: manual and computerized legal research, and analysed results; assisted in all phases of discovery including drafted answers to form interrogatories; responded to subpoenas and requests for employment information; reviewed Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Joinders on benefit plans, garnishments, bankruptcy notices, benefit and health coverage maintenance orders and coordinated with departments for processing; assembled arbitration exhibit books and assisted attorney at arbitration hearings; prepared form documents; oral and written communication with a broad range of employees and outside people; acted as paralegal and clerical staff manager in manager’s absence; created procedure manual for trademark duties and trained other employees to take over my trademark duties; helped design computerized trademark database.

Performed legal and non-legal manual and computerized research; maintained litigation support library and card catalogue; maintained pleading and project files for large scale anti-trust lawsuit; conducted on-line searching for and retrieval of discovery documents in a large in-house database. Collaborate in gathering and maintaining documents for a data room in response to an hostile take over attempt.