Laura Pavy
Audit Letter Attorney
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Prepare audit letters for clients of a AMLaw 100, multi-disciplinary law firm Review audit request letters to ensure they are commensurate with ABA and firm guidelines Ascertain requested time frame for audit due date and effective date
Experience
Audit Letter Attorney - Major Lindsey & Africa - Remote
(2025-01)
- Prepare audit letters for clients of a AMLaw 100, multi-disciplinary law firm
- Review audit request letters to ensure they are commensurate with ABA and firm guidelines
- Ascertain requested time frame for audit due date and effective date
- Determine materiality amount and if auditor wants to know the amount the client owes firm
- Update information in Audit Letter Summary Chart to track each audit
- Run attorney work reports in Aderant to determine which lawyers billed time for the client
- Prepare and send emails to relevant attorneys and track responses
- Draft audit letter response with relevant summaries from attorneys
- Save audit letter responses in iManage database
- Enter billable time for audit letter on the day letter sent
- Update Audit Letter Manual including forms and instructions
Legal Analyst - The Midtown Group - Remote
(2024-03 - 2024-06)
- Work with a multinational consulting firm to assist a federal government agency executing a strategy plan with a large claims case
- Utilize critical analysis skills to score each claimant's application and determine the validity of their claims placing specific emphasis on understanding the narrative and its corroboration quickly and accurately
- Perform online research, obtain pertinent information in databases and analyze facts in accordance with guidelines to validate claims
- Update database and track daily progress in Excel spreadsheet
- Balance daily update meetings and trainings to meet productivity goals and deadlines
Senior Counsel - Koeppel LLC - New Orleans, LA
(2022-06 - 2022-12)
- Prepare and respond to discovery requests
- Summarize medical reports
- Draft motions and memoranda in support
- Legal research
- Prepare reports for clients/insurers
Litigation Manager - Sessions, Israel & Shartle, LLC - Metairie, LA
(2019-06 - 2022-06)
- Audit lawsuits and pre-suits in ProLaw database for activity, deadlines and client reporting; consider changes to database based on reports
- Develop queries using Boolean operators to produce reports
- Summarize content to prepare audit responses with exhibits for firm clients
- Analyze bucket reports of litigation matters to determine areas needing improvement
- Ensure attorneys and admin understand each others viewpoints, concerns and issues re work product and workflow
- Run and analyze conflicts reports for new clients, matters, opposing parties
- Draft and edit engagement letters and conflicts waivers
- Review and evaluate QA reports for common employee discrepancies/mistakes; determine means to prevent them
Research & Writing Attorney/Law Office Manager - Bruce Whittaker, Esq. - New Orleans, LA
(2013-02 - 2019-06)
- Legal research and writing
- Prepare pleadings and correspondence
- Draft and file motions
- Maintain case files and calendar
- Coordinate travel and track expenses
- Manage database of cases
Criminal Defense Appellate Attorney - Louisiana Appellate Project - New Orleans, LA
(1996-12 - 2008-05)
- Counsel for indigent defendants in non-capital, felony appeals
- Legal research and writing
- Reviewed lower court transcripts and records
- Determined issues for appellate review
- Analyzed issues of law based on statutes, caselaw, and facts in record
- Drafted and filed detailed defense brief with courts of appeal
- Applied for writs with the Louisiana Supreme Court when appropriate
- Occasional oral argument before the court of appeal
Criminal Staff Clerk - Third Circuit Court of Appeal - Lake Charles, LA
(1994-08 - 1996-08)
- Legal research and writing
- Reviewed lower court transcripts and record
- Completed error patent checklist
- Analyzed defendant's and State's briefs in light of relevant law
- Prepared memoranda advising a three-judge panel of decision
Education
J.D. - Loyola University School of Law (1992-05) New Orleans, LA
B.A. - Communications - Loyola University (1989-05) New Orleans, LA
