Legal Support Intern
• Worked directly with Assistant U.S. Attorneys and paralegals to produce discovery, transcribe audio/videos, draft findings report, assist in depositions, review sentencing memos, close cases, draft subpoenas, and prepare exhibits and binders with 1000+ pages for federal trials• Spearheaded the investigation on the Worcester Police Department (WPD) by reading and summarizing 196+ use of force reports on Excel, analyzing 68 body worn camera footage, reviewing 6000+ pages of WPD Internal Affairs Reports, conducting research on witnesses, utilizing LexisNexis to review and locate documents, and determining whether reports were accurate, and use of force should be deemed excessive• Participated and took notes in offsite investigative tours to Worcester for interviews with interim chief, captains, lieutenants and sergeants on use of force, racial bias, gender bias and official police policy• Collaborated one-on-one with the criminal division chief in reviewing a 25466 paged production and writing a finding on the evidence, which was used in the sentencing memorandum and later to determine the sentencing guidelines in U.S. v. Yris Sanchez• Honed skills in Excel, LexisNexis, Adobe Acrobat Pro, research, writing, and gained knowledge of the federal court system by watching civil and criminal trials and hearings