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Patricia Nash

Winnetka,CA

Summary

Goal-oriented Senior Paralegal Specialist seeks full-time position that offers professional growth. Organized, dependable and works well under pressure. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Experienced with drafting and reviewing legal documents. Utilizes strong organizational skills to manage multiple cases simultaneously, ensuring timely and efficient progress.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Paralegal Specialist

Cozen O'Connor
02.2015 - Current
  • Provide support to Commercial Litigation Group
  • Collaborate with attorneys to develop case strategy
  • Draft discovery requests and responses, subpoenas, notices and other court pleadings and documents
  • Communicate with client to obtain responses to discovery requests
  • Summarize responses to discovery requests to determine if responses are complete, identify responses that would require meet and confer
  • Summarize deposition transcripts and medical records
  • Identify and prepare documents for production, including Bates labeling and redacting privileged and confidential information, prepare privilege logs
  • Identify, communicate and retain expert(s) for trial
  • Arrange IMEs
  • Assist in trial preparation, including managing exhibits and evidentiary matters, witness lists, exhibit lists, files, and subpoenas; coordinate and attend witness prep meetings; assist at trial
  • Prepared, indexed and developed exhibits for motions for summary judgment and trial
  • Communicate with opposing counsel
  • Assist attorneys with reviewing and organizing case file
  • Conduct background investigations
  • Communicate and retain private investigators to assist with locating witnesses
  • Conduct online research and utilize the firm’s electronic resources efficiently and effectively
  • Attend court hearings and depositions to take notes and document proceedings

Contract Litigation Paralegal

02.2014 - 01.2015
  • Draft discovery requests and responses, subpoenas, notices and other court pleadings and documents
  • Summarize transcripts and medical records
  • Index documents
  • Supported attorneys during trial proceedings, ensuring the availability of key exhibits and witnesses when needed.
  • Organized evidence, exhibits, motions, and subpoenas to support cases and prepare for trial.

Senior Paralegal / Case Manager

Frandzel Robins Bloom & Czato
01.2009 - 01.2014
  • Pilot program to assist financial institutions with foreclosure process in cost-effective manner
  • Conferred with clients and other third parties to gather and track case information
  • Draft complaints, answers, discovery requests and responses, and demurrers
  • Summarized depositions, legal documents and other material to assist attorney with information to assist with foreclosure procedure
  • Maintained database to provide updates
  • Communicate with client regarding responses to discovery requests and documents relevant to property at issue

Senior Paralegal

Cox, Castle & Nicholson
01.1998 - 11.2008
  • Obtain and manage client documents, including electronic data, and determine potential existence of documents that may be relevant to each case.
  • Attend and document site inspections.
  • Assist with drafting/preparing pleadings.
  • Assist attorneys in preparing for trials.
  • Assist with preparing bankruptcy petitions and schedules.
  • Assist with preparing pleadings in adversary proceedings.

Education

Bachelor of Science - History

Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon

Skills

  • Litigation support
  • Trial preparation
  • Drafting legal documents
  • Discovery requests
  • Subpoenas
  • Court pleadings
  • Transcription summarization
  • Medical record summarization
  • Expert retention
  • Medical examination arrangement
  • Document review
  • Document production
  • Evidence organization
  • Deposition outlines
  • Trial exhibits
  • Transcript digesting
  • Client communication
  • Opposing counsel communication

Certification

  • University of West Los Angeles, Paralegal Certificate - Litigation
  • University of West Los Angeles, Paralegal Certificate - Corporations
  • University of West Los Angeles, Paralegal Certificate - Real Estate

Timeline

Senior Paralegal Specialist

Cozen O'Connor
02.2015 - Current

Contract Litigation Paralegal

02.2014 - 01.2015

Senior Paralegal / Case Manager

Frandzel Robins Bloom & Czato
01.2009 - 01.2014

Senior Paralegal

Cox, Castle & Nicholson
01.1998 - 11.2008

Bachelor of Science - History

Lewis & Clark College

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