Heidi J.

I have 28 years of civil litigation experience, from pre-litigation to appellate court. I am able to identify and extract crucial facts pertinent to a case and build the case for a successful outcome. I have worked for both Plaintiffs and Defendants. I specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice but also have a great deal of experience and interest in products liability. My experience ranges in other civil litigation realms such as class actions, business disputes, contractual, employment, and construction. I specialize in reviewing medical records and preparing medical chronologies/summaries as well as preparing collateral source spreadsheets itemizing the breakdown of charges, write-offs, payments, and liens for medical treatment. In addition, I have worked with obtaining and working with medical experts. I also prepare demand letters in conjunction with reviewing a client’s medical treatment which are provided to insurance companies. I thrive in the discovery phase of a case. I conduct discovery document reviews and index documents by way of a master timeline of events. I have managed high volume, document intensive cases, including one case which had over 900,000 pages of documents. I am able to investigate, identify and extract crucial facts pertinent to a case. I like to refer to this as document forensics and investigation. This helps to identify the strengths and weaknesses in any case. I have expertise in creating critical timelines of cases with the ability of hyperlinking the documents to the timeline for easy access to the document upon review of the timeline. I am able to help prepare for depositions, mediations and trials and attend same if requested. I have skills in summarizing depositions with the intent to use them in further depositions and/or at trial. I am familiar with essential litigation computer programs such as Adobe Acrobat PRO where I am able to edit, organize, Bates stamp, redact, extract and manipulate documents. I am familiar with Word, Excel, DropBox, FileVine, and other legal software programs. Most law firms use different litigation software program (i.e. Sanctions, TrialWorks, etc.) and I am able to adapt and learn the software program of their choice. My husband was military so I have worked as a paralegal in Kentucky, Texas, and Georgia. I have been involved in many cases that were litigated in other cases such as Washington, Kansas, Wyoming, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Oregon. I am adaptable and learn new laws and state requirements as needed.