Michele B. Thompson

Seasoned and reliable litigation paralegal, seeking a position where I can leverage my many years of experience in the legal industry. I bring excellent interpersonal skills with colleagues and clients.

Personal Injury Paralegal - Jennifer Porter Law, PLLC

(2025-10 - 2026-05)

• Prepared letters of representation, requested police crash reports and FOIA
• Requested medical records and medical bills through Arctrieval
• Intake calls
• Scanned intake documents, uploaded to OneDrive
• Med pay reimbursements and Medicare/Medicaid lien requests
• Screened initial intake calls and scheduled initial attorney-client meetings
• Communicated with insurance companies and claims adjusters
• Use CasePeer database
• Calendaring
• Excellent interpersonal skills with colleagues and clients
• Dialpad phone system

Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Workers' Compensation Litigation Paralegal - Koonz, McKenney, Johnson & DePaolis LLP

(2023-03 - 2025-08)

• Prepared letters of representation, request police crash report
• Requested medical records and medical bills, review, scan and organize
• Med pay reimbursements and Medicare lien requests
• Screened initial intake calls and schedule initial attorney-client meetings
• Communicated with attorneys, vendors, and adjusters
• Scheduled depositions
• Calendaring
• Excellent interpersonal skills with colleagues and clients
• Opened cases by entering data into ProLaw database
• Litigation Support: drafted and answered discovery, drafted demands
• Used Worldox database
• RingCentral phone system

Owner/Paralegal - MBT Paralegal Services, LLC

(2021 - 2023)

• Pre-Litigation
• Commonwealth of Virginia Notary Services
• 1099 clients (remote, freelance, and on-site for PI and estate planning Law firms)

Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Family Law Litigation Paralegal - Surovell, Isaacs & Levy PLC

(2019-01 - 2021-08)

• Prepared letters of representation, requested police crash report
• Requested medical records and medical bills, reviewed, scanned and organized
• Med pay reimbursements and Medicare lien requests
• Screened initial intake call
• Scheduled initial attorney-client meetings
• Attended initial-client meetings with attorney
• Entered data and time into a case management system: Tabs3/PracticeMaster
• Litigation Support: drafted and answered discovery, and drafted demands

Legal Assistant - Rohrstaff Law

(2018)

Nursing Home Negligence

• Drafted letters to clients, adjusters and court
• Requested medical records and medical bills
• Telephone conferences with vendors
• Created medical records binders
• Discovery

Personal Injury Litigation Paralegal - Potter Burnett Law

(2018-04 - 2018-09)

• Litigation Support: drafted and answered discovery, e-filed pleadings, scheduled depositions, trial preparation
• Requested medical records and medical bills, reviewed and organization
• Med pay reimbursement and Medicare lien requests
• Answered phones, screened initial intake calls, scheduled appointments
• Entered data into a case management system: Mycase
• Scanned and organized voluminous documents

Legal Administrative Assistant/Litigation Paralegal - Curcio Bergeron, k/a Curcio Law

(2005-01 - 2018-03)

Personal Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Wrongful Death, Dog Bite, Nursing Home

• Litigation Support: drafted and answered discovery, file pleadings, schedule depositions, trial preparation
• Medical record/bill requests, review and organization
• Med pay reimbursement and Medicare lien requests
• Train office staff and paralegals
• Answered phones, screened initial intake calls, scheduled appointments
• Enter data into a case management system: TrialWorks
• Scanned and organized voluminous documents
• Opened and organized clients' files
• Electronic bank deposits, wrote checks for various vendors
• Ordered and inventory supplies
• Client Contact. I handled their questions about the status of their case and the litigation

Legal Secretary/Litigation Paralegal - Miller & Associates

(2002-07 - 2004-12)

Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Pharmaceutical Litigation

• Complex litigation support: prepared discovery responses, filed pleadings with state and federal courts, scheduled depositions, and trial preparation
• Transcription
• Frequent client contact
• Initial intake calls
• Opened and organized clients' files
• Litigation Support: Drafted and filed pleadings, scheduled depositions, trial preparation
• Obtained, reviewed, evaluated, summarized medical records and bills
• Answered telephones and troubleshooting office machinery malfunctions
• Was in charge of running satellite office for medical practice department for senior associate and registered nurse

Legal Administrative Assistant - Venable, f/k/a Venable, Baetjer & Howard, LLP - McLean, VA

(2000 - 2002)

Bankruptcy

• Worked for senior partner and associate in bankruptcy department
• Worked with bankruptcy paralegal doing large quantity of mailings, pleadings, filings, correspondence, and transcript
• Entered attorneys' time into database to bill and prepare clients' billing

Legal Secretary - Cohen, Dunn, Curcio, Keating & Rohrstaff, P.C.

(1985 - 2000)

Personal Injury, Family Law, Criminal, and Immigration

• Worked for senior partner in personal injury
• Screened calls, made appointments, typed correspondence and pleadings using dictaphone
• Organized and maintained files and trial notebooks
• Communicated with clients and the court
• Scheduled depositions
• Typed attorney's case list; Billing used Timeslips III and PC Law, Jr.
• Trained office assistant
• Made photocopies, extensive transcription, typed briefs, and typed articles for Virginia Trial Lawyer Association (VTLA)

Cooperative Office Education Program Office Assistant - Cohen, Dunn & Sinclair, P.C.

(1983 - 1985)

While a student at T.C. Williams High School, I worked part-time as an office assistant for the entire firm.

• Was in charge of Xerox room
• Kept the filing in law library current
• Filed documents at court
• Stamped (postage meter) and mailed letters
• Assisted bookkeeper with posting costs on clients' ledger cards
• Made daily bank deposits

Paralegal Certificate - Paralegal Studies - George Mason University

Legal Research - Northern Virginia Community College