Keren Busani-Halevi

Strategic Legal Operations Leader with 20 years of experience optimizing litigation and corporate workflows for global media entities and Am Law 200 firms. Proven record leading large paralegal teams (16+) and scaling departments through standardized training, workflow automation and load-balancing methodologies. Expert in managing complex mass tort and class-action litigation matters across multiple jurisdictions with deadline compliance.

HBO (Warner Bros. Discovery), Paralegal Manager, November 2018 – Present

• Operations Leadership: Oversee legal operations for a 16-person team supporting litigation and corporate matters nationwide.
• Process Optimization: Built centralized training and jurisdictional templates, cutting new-hire ramp-up time and unifying for quality.
• Resource Management: Implement strategic load-balancing models to ensure 100% deadline compliance; manage department budgets, overtime and performance reviews.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with HR and department heads to align staffing with corporate production cycles, scaling legal support to match production demands.
• Quality Assurance: Instituted rigorous audit and feedback loops, fostering a "trial-ready" culture across litigation and transactional assignments. 

• Litigation Support: Provided pleading and discovery responses, medical summaries, mediation assistance, trial preparation and mass tort support.
• Process Efficiency: Developed discovery templates accelerating response times for high-volume filings across State and Federal jurisdictions.
• Analytical Reporting: Obtained and reviewed extensive medical records into defense-ready chronologies to inform case strategy and valuation.
• Mediation & Trial Operations: Led mediation and trial binder assembly and coordination, ensuring seamless mediation and courtroom readiness. 

• Class-Action Management: Coordinated document production and motion drafting for a massive class action.
• Legal Research: Utilized Lexis+ and cite-checking tools to ensure shepardized and compliant filings.
• Depositions: Reviews hundreds of depositions and created digests for all with key testimony highlighted. 
• Medical Document Management: Obtained medical records, created authorization charts and created medical chronologies for case assistance. 

The Law Office of James E. Iñiguez, Paralegal Secretary, October 2013 – April 2014

• Practice Operations: Managed daily operations for sole practitioner; served as primary liaison for clients, opposing counsel, and Court Clerks.
• Document Management: Drafted and filed matrimonial divorces and prenuptial agreements with high accuracy in sensitive litigation environments.

• Discovery Oversight: Managed large-scale document productions, including scanning, redaction, and Bates numbering.
• Litigation Support: Provided pleading and discovery responses, mediation assistance, trial support.
• Medical Document Management: Obtained medical records, created authorization charts and created medical chronologies for case assistance.
• Deadline Compliance: Coordinated original service on garnishee banks and scheduled court conferences to ensure strict judicial deadline adherence. 

Hunter College, CUNY Honors; B.A. English, January 2010