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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pa

Civil Litigation - DefenseAll facets, complex litigation; professional and medical negligence and malpractice, wrongful death; wrongful discharge, age and disability discrimination, defamation; mass torts local counsel.Skills/Responsibilities1. Analysis: case analysis and summary of components; medical and other records analysis and summaries; discovery response and pleadings summaries; case, statutes and news research, analysis and summaries.2. Writing: party, witness and expert profiles; records review and summary; deposition summaries; draft discovery responses; draft status and settlement memoranda.3. Liaison/facilitator.4. Case management from inception to settlement or trial.

Wallingford, Pa

Assisted small law firms in the Philadelphia and New York metropolitan areas with case initiation and management; drafted litigation and commercial law documents; organized & prepared for service discovery documents; reviewed, analyzed and organized incoming discovery documents; drafted pleadings, digested depositions; conducted legal and miscellaneous online research.

Mass Torts plaintiffs' bar.Litigation support; information management systemsCase management from inception to settlement of two mass torts: conducted initial case review, obtained medical records, drafted pleadings, prepared medical chronologies and provided court room support for three major mass tort trials. Managed six-person coding team in associated complex document review; analyzed defense discovery documents using Crivella-West online platform. Set-up and managed all aspects of 50+ onsite document productions at title agencies throughout New Jersey. Responsible for all aspects of e-discovery and traditional discovery related to complex tort litigation, medical malpractice and wrongful death actions. Provided technical support for all software in use at firm. Advised firm concerning document management systems and litigation software.

Radnor, Pa

Organized and managed document discovery in shareholder litigation; conducted online research and prepared dossiers for potential lead plaintiffs, witnesses and experts. With a team, executed the mass-preparation and filing of ~1,500 complaints for a mass torts product liability litigation; managed those ~1,500 cases from inception through three initial trials. With a team, organized and managed the dissolution of firm’s Mass Torts department. Assembled for reimbursement billing records totaling ~$8 million in common benefit time and expense.

• Supervised and participated in the development of proprietary documents used by the GS Investment Banking Division, e.g., pitchbooks, selling memos, roadshow presentations and supporting documents for financial transactions.• Edited content for same; researched public and private corporations online and using proprietary databases.• Managed the creation of and modifications to complex documents and sets of documents by teams of operators under tight, overnight deadlines.• Managed general workflow and the use of presentation center operators within and between centers throughout the GS worldwide network.• Devised software solutions for graphics and charting dilemmas.

• Created proprietary documents and templates for CSFB’s Investment Banking Division.• Created and maintained reference manuals and templates for word processing, spreadsheet and graphics applications.• Provided workflow management for satellite production centers.• Participated in the development of new templates and macros for Microsoft software applications.

Juris Doctor, General Law, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Honorable Mention, 1st Year Best Brief CompetitionI attended Brooklyn's part-time night division, a four-year.

Ba, Magna Cum Laude, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Hosted weekly campus fine arts cable TV program; Interned at IA Public Television; Reporter for local NBC.

Candidate: Applied Music (Voice - Major; Piano - Minor)