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
