Leigh Fava

• Medical Records Procurement
• Create Medical Memorandum 
• Organize Medical Records and Charts
• Summarize Medical Records
• Perform Medical Research
• Perform Legal Research
• Perform Social Media Sweeps/Background Checks
• Draft Subpoenas and Schedule of Documents
• Prepare Cases for Mediation
• Deposition Transcript Abstracting & Summarizing
• Trial Preparation and Trial Assistance
• Billable Hours for 2017:  1,786 / $134,848.00

Fields: Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Personal Injury; and Products Liability

DUTIES:

• Draft Subpoenas
• Propound and Answer Discovery Demands
• Perform Medical Research
• Perform Legal Research
• Create Medical Memorandum 
• Organize Medical Records
• Prepare Cases for Mediation
• Deposition Preparation 
• Deposition Abstracting
• Trial Preparation and Trial Assistance
• Digital File Creation and Maintenance
• Draft Correspondence
• Draft Submissions of Evidence
• Manage Medicare/Medicaid Lien files

Multiple Clients, Freelance Services

Fields: Plaintiff Personal Injury, Municipal Matters, Administrative Law Matters, Special Civil and Lower Court Matters, Disciplinary Matters and Civil & Criminal Defense

DUTIES:

• Draft legal pleadings;
• Propound and answer discovery demands;
• Prepare and respond to motions;
• Draft correspondence;
• Conduct client intake meetings;
• Create Intake memo for investigation of claim and creation of file
• Communicate with Court, clients, attorneys, insurance adjusters; doctors;
• Manage Files and Discovery deadlines
• Perform Notary functions;
• Deposition Preparation of clients;
• Designed case-management spreadsheet system to track and manage files
• Designed Case Status Report template for case evaluation and updating

Left firm to relocate to New Orleans, Louisiana

Fields: Will Contestation Civil & Special Civil litigation; Collections, Commercial Litigation, Family Law; Municipal Law

DUTIES:

• Draft legal pleadings, Plaintiff and Defendant
• Propound and answer discovery demands;
• Record legal documents;
• Create PSA/Custody Schedules
• Draft correspondence;
• Motion Practice
• Communicate with Court, clients, attorneys, Insurance adjusters;
• Manage Files and Discovery; 

Firm dissolved

Fields: Estate Litigation, Foreclosure Actions, Landlord/Tenant Matters, Civil & Special Civil litigation; Family Law; Municipal Law; Commercial Litigation

DUTIES:

• Draft legal pleadings, Plaintiff and Defendant
• Propound and answer discovery demands;
• Perform Notary Functions;
• Record legal documents;
• Draft correspondence;
• Communicate with Court, clients, attorneys, Insurance adjusters;
• Manage Files and Discovery; 

Left firm for better opportunity

• Manager of office, warehouse facilities and staff (9 permanent, 30 independent harvesters);
• Created and managed systems for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll;
• Responsible for all banking and loan management;
• Maintained leases for shellfish harvesting lots;
• Negotiated all commercial leases (hard clam relay leases, riparian grant, facilities and marina);
• Maintained compliance with  New Jersey Statutes Annotated, Titles 23 and 50, and New Jersey Administrative Code, Title 7, Subtitle E, Chapter 25 and 25A; N.J.A.C. 8:21-2.1;  NOAA  Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; FDA  21 CFR 123;

• Reviewed, interpreted and complied with changing regulations for commercial fisheries;

• HACCP Coordinator: Designed and implemented HACCP program to ensure safety in handling of fishery products. (HACCP certified by FDA);
• Secured and maintained local, state and federal permits and licenses; 
• Performed all Compliance Reporting to local, state and federal agencies;
• Negotiated and maintained all insurance policies  and vendor contracts.

Legal Studies (ABA Approved certification)

Brookdale Community College, 2000-2003, Lincroft, NJ

• Member of Alpha Phi Theta, Brookdale chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.
• Member Lambda Epsilon Chi
• Named to National Dean's List

VOLUNTEERISM

• Literacy Volunteers of America--Monmouth County Branch
• Lunch Break Soup Kitchen, Red Bank, New Jersey
• Monmouth County SPCA, Eatontown, New Jersey
• Pro Bono Paralegal Work, New Orleans, Louisiana 
• Trash Mob Litter Removal, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana