Entry-level Paralegal resume example

• With a senior colleague reviewing the change, maintained case files with pleadings, correspondence, evidence, deadlines, service status, and attorney review notes; gave the legal team one current record of case status and next action.
• Within an assigned workstream, researched statutes, rules, decisions, and factual sources and summarized authority, relevance, limits, and citation status; helped attorneys distinguish controlling authority from useful but nonbinding material.
• With a senior colleague reviewing the change, prepared document collections using custodians, date ranges, search terms, privilege rules, and review coding guidance; made production decisions reproducible and protected privileged material.
• Within the assigned scope, organized discovery records by custodian and date, checked privilege flags with supervising counsel, and reconciled exhibit references before filing the court document.
• Within the assigned scope, prepared a legal research memorandum distinguishing binding authority from persuasive cases, recorded citation checks in the case file, and submitted the analysis to the supervising attorney without giving independent legal advice.
• Within the assigned scope, loaded a litigation document collection into a document database using custodian and date fields, tested saved searches against known responsive files, and corrected coding inconsistencies before attorney review.
• Within the assigned scope, prepared an eDiscovery review log separating responsive, duplicate and potentially privileged documents; reconciled production identifiers with the export list and reserved privilege and disclosure decisions for the supervising attorney.
• Within the assigned scope, owned an eDiscovery document-review batch using approved litigation criteria, resolved duplicate document identifiers and completed the privilege-escalation log for attorney review.
• Within the assigned scope, published legal-research notes using checked citations and document databases, reduced source-retrieval time from 25 to 9 minutes without making independent legal conclusions.

• The team assembled hearing and trial materials with exhibit references, witness files, issue lists, and filing checks; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review. The team closed preparation gaps before attorney review and filing deadlines; documented my assigned work separately from the team result and confirmed it with a senior colleague.
• Within the assigned scope, reconciled document versions and referenced exhibits before counsel review, marked privileged material for restricted handling, and checked filing or response deadlines against the case calendar.
• Within the assigned scope, prepared a chronology linking dated correspondence to the relevant agreement or case issue, identified a missing exhibit before counsel review, and requested the source document through the approved collection channel.

• Within the assigned scope, the team prepared document collections using custodians, date ranges, search terms, privilege rules, and review coding guidance; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review
• Used public sample agreements and invented correspondence to build a case chronology, marked unresolved facts and privilege questions, and linked every issue to the source paragraph instead of supplying an unsupported legal conclusion.
• Prepared a document index and citation-check log, tested a missing attachment and a superseded version, and kept review questions separate from the attorney’s final decision.
• Owned the public-record research exercise using verified citations, resolved an outdated authority reference and completed a source table separating facts from legal questions.

Relevant coursework: Legal research, litigation, contracts, legal writing

• Published an independent research-method note using public decisions, explaining citation checks, document provenance and the limits of non-advisory case summaries.