WINSOME M.

TAYLOR Office Direct Dial: (678) 650-

4116
813 Creekside Drive, Atlanta, GA 30341 E-mail: wtaylor@taylorlegalvirtualservices.com

Contract/Freelance Paralegal with more than 20 Years of legal office experience in:

• Drafting a myriad of pleadings, declarations, judicial notice, requests, appendices and proposed orders
• Discovery Management interrogatories and discovery responses
• Drafting persuasive settlement demand packages, and mediation letters
• Cite checking, blue booking and proof reading of briefs
• Writing summaries of depositions and medical records
• Performing transcript searches and annotations
• Reviewing and preparing documents for production
• Managing deposition, exhibit preparation, investigation of facts, data analysis, client/witness interviews
• Preparing witness and exhibit lists, witness examination materials, trial exhibit databases, and assisting
with jury instructions and voir dire for trials and arbitrations

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent writing and communication skills

• Expertise in complex case and project management, including schedule, budgetary and personnel planning
and database management
• Experience in corporate, class action, patent and securities litigation, insurance defense and coverage,
medical malpractice, personal injury, and products liability

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

2005- 2009 - Poole & Shaffery LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Insurance Defense and Litigation Paralegal/Assistant
2002 - 2005 - Parker Stanbury, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Personal Injury and Family Law Paralegal
1997 - 2002 - Perkins Coie, LLP Seattle, WA, Civil Litigation and Family Law Legal Assistant
1996 - 1997 Law Offices of Isaac Okoru, LLP, Queens, NY, Immigration Law Paralegal
1988 - 1996 Law Offices of L. Jack Hines, LLC, Kingston, Jamaica, W.I., Civil Litigation Legal Assistant

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY AND SKILL SET:

Compulaw Vision SQL Docketing Management | FamilySoft | Westlaw/LexisNexis | PACER | CM/EMC System |
Lexis/Nexis e-file & e-serve | Elite ProLaw/Billing Systems | Legal Solutions Plus | Softpro | Time Slips | Mac | Windows
Vista/Windows XP | Microsoft Office Works | Microsoft Office Applications | Corel Word Perfect | QuickBooks Case
Management software | Knowledge, experience with Federal, State, and Appellate Court Filing procedures

EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS

UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA Certificate of Completion in Legal Secretarial Training 03/07 – 07/07
Crown College, Seattle, WA Associate in Science in Paralegal Studies and 09/01 – 12/02
BCTI, Seattle, WA Certificate of Completion in Office Automation Program 05/98 – 12/98

OTHER INTERESTS

Avid reader, literature, blog enthusiast, website generating guru, marketing liaison, family, cooking, concerts, and
wine tasting.

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