Sr. Litigation Paralegal - Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP - New York, NY
(1999-04)
fka Harwood Feffer LLP
- Managed and assigned projects to group of 12 co-counsel paralegals on complex document review and coding project utilizing internet document depository in nationwide class action suit: In re FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc. Employment Practices Litigation, 3:05-MD-527 RM (MDL-1700).
- Lead paralegal in several Federal and State court trials: (i.e. Cabiri v. Government of the Republic of Ghana, 165 F.3d 193 (2d Cir. 1999) and Beller v. William Penn Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 37 A.D.3d 747 (N.Y. 2d Dep't 2007)).
- Root cause research and analysis of corporate governance policies, SEC investigations and shareholder disputes.
- Conduct all aspects of motion preparations regarding shareholder issues and rights.
- Damage analysis of shareholder purchases/ sales of stock holdings in preparation for 1934 Exchange Act – 10b(5) Lead Counsel motions.
- Detailed legal research concerning multi- party litigation with emphasis on class actions.
- Detailed discovery phase document reviews utilizing online web-based document repositories.
- Heavy citation checking, Bluebooking and Shepardizing of briefs, motions and complaints.
- Court of Appeals & District Court ECF filings.
- Federal Rules of Civil and Appellate Procedure research.
- Liaison with Circuit and District Court Clerks of the Court.
- Voluminous document production management and review.
- Overall supervision of shareholder inquiries for future class action proceedings.
- EDGAR database research, review, document retrieval of SEC rules and regulations, and defendant-company public filings (Proxies, Registration Statements, 10Ks, etc.).
- Pretrial legal research and document review.
- E-discovery document analysis utilizing latest document review programs and technology.
- Edgar database research and document retrieval.
- Liaison/consultant to potential class members of security class action litigations.
- Writing and distribution of press releases announcing 10b(5) class action suits.
- FINRA Rules and Regulations research and familiarity of hearing and arbitration procedure and protocol.
- SEC filings and Form 4 research and investigations of company assets and holdings for insider trading.
- Load application and files for importing into various Litigation Support Applications.
- Coordinate scanning, coding, and OCRing of discovery documents.
- Assist attorneys in preparing to use courtroom presentation applications.
- Pretrial order and voir dire questionnaire preparation.
Paralegal, Labor/Litigation - Proskauer Rose LLP - New York, NY
(1998-06 - 1999-04)
- Overall supervision of trial and in-house labor arbitration preparation.
- ERISA, Title 29, NLRB and Collective Bargaining Agreement research issues.
- Assisted in the drafting of briefs: Summary Judgments, Motions to Dismiss, etc.
- Citation checking (Bluebooking, quote checking, and detailed case law research).
- Document production, document review, legal research.
- Proofreading, redlining/blacklining.
Paralegal - Wallace Law Registry - New York, NY
(1992-11 - 1997-01)
Worked full and part time, long and short-term temporary assignments at various law firms and in house corporate legal departments throughout the New York City area such as: Skadden Arps, Fried Frank, Shearman & Sterling, Brown and Wood, Matthew Bender, American Arbitration Ass'n
