Paralegal Resume
Shantee S. Williams
East th street
Brooklyn, New York
(M)
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EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: Legal Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Real Estate Title Closing, Hofstra University
EMPLOYMENT
/-/ Paralegal, Pfizer Inc.
Contract Paralegal to the Corporate Compliance Group- a group responsible for ensuring the lawful investigation and resolution of violations to regulatory rules mandated by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), and the PhRMA Code as well as violations of Pfizer’s company policies.
• Prepared initial complaints for legal review by the Deputy Compliance Officer and/or Chief Compliance Officer via creating files by alleging party; subject/s of the investigation; and type of investigation; Responsible for the implementing and maintaining of new cases into the Pfizer database using ‘Team Connect; and assigned all deemed valid complaints to the appropriate attorney.
• Assisted attorneys with preliminary investigative procedures: setting up interviews of all parties named in the complaint; recorded minutes during the interviewing process; collaborate with case attorneys in determining the plan of action for the investigation; and gathered case discover for review.
• Performed background checks of parties named in the investigation as instructed by the case attorney.
• Reviewed case discovery materials: travel and expense reports for pharmaceutical sale representative and/or Pfizer affiliated doctors; field activity logs for Sales Representatives using ATLAS; and emails pertinent to the investigation.
• Screened Sale Representatives profiles for discrepancies or patterns of abnormalities in their Product Sales Reports.
• Acted as liaison between case attorney and corresponding department principals for all investigations referred out of the Corporate Compliance Group.
• Closed out files once a resolution has been reached: logging reported disciplinary actions whenever taken; gathering all case documents and organizing them appropriately in file; scanned file into Pfizer electronic archive database; and marked file closed by composing a disposition synopsis and returning to Deputy Compliance Officer for final review.
• Supported attorneys and staff paralegals with light administrative duties when needed.
/-/ Paralegal, Paul Weiss
Contract paralegal to the E-discovery team.
• Handled due diligence for current litigation matter.
• Coded documents for E-discovery productions.
/-/ Paralegal, Bear Stearns
Contract paralegal to the E-discovery litigation group.
• Collaborated with the paralegal team on various legal productions in an effort to execute subpoena responses in a timely fashion.
• Handled due diligence for a large and highly sensitive litigation matter.
• Conducted legal research for current cases.
• Established and maintained an extensive database to track all open and active litigation matters.
• Developed an electronic filing system for the Managing Director to effectuate a functional case file tracking for all closed but active legal litigation matters.
• Assisted Managing Director with light administrative duties and served as a back up when needed.
/-/ Human Resources Assistant, Pension Boards _ United Church of Christ
Assistant to the director of Human resources.
• Provided administrative, technical and clerical support to human resource director and employees.
• Assisted human resources director with various projects.
• Collaborated with human resources team to organized monthly employee events (i.e. Customer Service appreciation day, company BBQ/picnic, birthday/Thanksgiving/Christmas celebrations.)
• Managed confidential employee files and calendars.
Skills
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Lexis Nexis, Lextranet, Team Connect, Computron, Atlas, West Law, legal proofreading, excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, adaptable, flexible, multi-task oriented, excellent organizational skills, self-starter; New York State Licensed Notary Public
References: Available upon request
