Lauren Thomas

Senior Litigation Paralegal @One Llp

Newport Beach, CA, US

Role involving management of state & federal intellectual property, entertainment, & general business pre-litigation and litigation matters for mid-size firm, supporting multiple litigators. Responsibilities are wide-ranging, including general case management, legal calendaring, drafting, proofing, and cite checking court documents, preparing discovery requests and responses, document production/bates labeling, legal and factual research, e-filing across state and federal courts, and document management, among other things, including training/teaching other staff/paralegals and coming up with and implementing systems and procedures to ensure efficiency. CRC, CCP, FRCP, FRAP, local rules, and Bluebook/CA Style Manual wizard, ensuring that the firm\'s work product is excellent in all respects.Examples of the variety of my work and experience here include: Preparing, finalizing, and filing Petitions for Review to the CA Supreme Court, as well as many appellate briefs and appendices in the CA Courts of Appeal, including writs of mandamus/prohibitionPreparing, finalizing, and filing appellate briefs and appendices/excerpts of record in the federal circuit courts of appeal, and several writs of certiorari to and amicus briefs in the US Supreme CourtPreparing and filing Petitions for Inter Partes Review and other documents, and management of IPR matters, in the US PTABPreparing and filing documents, and management of matters, in the US TTABAssisting with all aspects of federal and state court litigation in courts across CA and the US from start to finish, as well as judgment enforcementPreparing and filing various documents in bankruptcy courts across the country, on both the creditor and debtor side, including preparing/filing a Chapter 7 petition, and researching/preparing a Chapter 15 petitionTagging/running advanced searches of e-discovery via Relativity, DISCO, & GoldfynchTrial prepAssisting CIO with finding, evaluating, & testing new software for the firm

Fullerton College

Paralegal Certificate

Fullerton College

Associate of Science Degree, Paralegal Studies

University of California, Irvine

Criminology, Law & Society