Jerri Province

Senior Paralegal with more than 20 years of experience supporting complex legal matters within a Fortune 500 medical device company. Extensive background in contract management, litigation support, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and cross-functional coordination with legal, finance, compliance, and product development teams. Highly skilled in document management, discovery, contract analysis, and process improvement.

Operations Consultant and Bookkeeper at Independent Consultant for Commercial Contractors (2024-08 – Present)

• Review all contracts to outline terms, identify criteria for billing and any required backup documentation. Prepare checklist for the management of project deadlines.
• Manage job costing and allocations for over/under budget reporting and track job income to ensure accurate cash flow forecasting using Excel to generate reports.
• Prepare state sales and use tax filings, and multi-state Corporate Entity and License filings.
• Designed and implemented a standardized process to easily respond to auditors for general liability and workers comp annual audits.
• Maintain hard files and electronic files for multiple projects during various stages of projects.
• Handle all accounts payable and receivable, allocating appropriately to income and expense accounts using Quickbooks.

Principal Paralegal at Medtronic, Inc. – Law Department (1998-03 – 2020-07)

• Supported in-house and outside counsel in contract disputes, government inquiries, patent infringement litigation, product liability litigation, and subpoenas.
• Coordinated document identification, collection, organization, and production for litigation.
• Partnered with business stakeholders to identify responsive data, records, and historical documents for government inquiries, compliance, and litigation matters.
• Developed and implemented internal processes for document tracking and production.
• Managed research across multiple databases to locate historical agreements and corporate records.
• Trained and supervised support staff on discovery, including preparation and scheduling of witnesses for depositions.
• Developed tracking and docketing systems to manage product development from initial through final product development agreement stages.
• Coordinated internal meetings with business stakeholders and assisted attorneys monitoring post agreement performance.
• Drafted meeting minutes and maintained compliance documentation.
• Reviewed product literature for regulatory compliance.
• Reviewed and summarized third-party agreements, focusing on milestones, obligations, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborated with finance, compliance, and product development teams to monitor accuracy and quality of product attribution disclosures pursuant to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
• Prepared and filed corporate entity documents across multiple U.S. jurisdictions; created and maintained a corporate entity docketing system.
• Reviewed and summarized IP agreements for patent attorneys.
• Reviewed acquisition documents, identifying and managing the transfer of intellectual property and commercial agreements into internal databases.
• Assisted patent attorneys with patent and trademark research.
• Implemented and maintained patent databases and IP tracking tools.
• Reviewed outside counsel invoices and allocated costs in accordance with IP department budgets.
• Served as assistant to the Chief Patent Counsel, coordinating daily IP filing and docketing activities.
• Developed checklists, tracking tools, and response templates for outside counsel requests.

Certification in Paralegal Studies – University of Memphis

Coursework in Business, Accounting, and Paralegal Studies