Virtual Paralegal Services™
Litigation Services

General Description:

Virtually assist attorneys in project management and all aspects of the litigation process, from the discovery period through the trial and onto post-trial findings and appeals. Assist in drafting documents, such as pleadings and other commonly used legal documents for attorneys. Perform legal and investigative research. Assist with coordinating document productions, document review for responsiveness, privilege, and other substantive or objective criteria; factual research; document analysis; legal research.

Electronic Document Management:

• Utilize, create or establish procedures to be able to organize, coordinate, and retrieve documents/files.
  
• Create and maintain electronic case files (which would correspond to physical files).

Discovery:

• Assist with electronic document organization/production, including indexing of documents and maintaining files.
  
• Interact with clients and outside entities, such as government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations, and other law firms to gather information or data.
  
• Review and analyze documents for production; categorizes documents by subject; prepare chronologies of facts; create charts; perform calculations and statistical analyses; review transcripts for specific references.
  
• Review and draft correspondence, interrogatories and requests for production of documents (and responses), as well as financial statements and any other pleadings or routine legal documents.
  
• Conduct factual research: gather relevant information from various resources (i.e. internet, libraries, etc.).
  
• Prepare for depositions, including compiling documents relevant to the deponent, including compiling exhibits.
  
• Digest transcripts to summarize highlights of a proceeding or search for specific issues.
  
• Perform public records research of all kinds (i.e. dockets, bankruptcy dockets, secretary of state records, etc.).

Trial:

• Prepare for trial, including: electronic organization of exhibits, files and all other supporting documents.
  
• Assist with the preparation of motions, including electronically compiling relevant documents, proofreading and putting together exhibits and indexing documents for a table of contents.
  
• Electronically prepare binders per witness, which contain interview memos, digests and relevant documents.
  
• Electronically prepare binders for any subject matter.
  
• Conduct various document searches and factual research, including electronic searches when applicable.

Post-Trial:

• Analyze and review various documents to determine the necessary information, including compilation of findings.
  
• Perform factual research to identify issues and relevant matters.
  
• Cite and fact check legal briefs; electronic assembly of exhibits and appendices for court papers.
• Compile information concerning issues identified by attorneys and prepare documentation or statistics, charts, graphs, databases, etc. as appropriate which clearly detail the findings.

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