While deadlines sometimes dictate what gets immediate attention, management of the overall case will likely include the following:
- Comprehensive Litigation Case Management
- Monitor court docket webpages for filings and new settings
- Draft correspondence, pleadings, and discovery documents
- Client phone interviews to prepare discovery responses
- Document review and productions
- Bates numbering of documents
- Witness and exhibit lists
- Service of process coordination
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitration preparation
- Hearing, mediation, and trial notebooks (paper or digital)
- Internet research and public record investigations
- Litigation deadlines and docketing
- Certificate of Service compliance via eService, email, or mail
- Administrative record preparation
- Exhibit preparation and organization
- Settlement package preparation
- Attorney and court costs motions and exhibits
- Legal brief review and editing, check case citations; prepare Table of Contents and List of Authorities
- Trial Court or Appellate Briefs
- Regular and certified mail printing and processing of printed documents
- Monitor delivery records and obtain electronic return receipts
- Electronic filing of pleadings and eService on opposing counsel; monitor filing acceptance by Court
- ProDoc
- MyFileRunner
- PACER
- Electronic submission of documents for recording – ePrepare; monitor filing acceptance; provide final recorded documents
- Warranty Deed, Deed of Trust, Abstract of Judgment, Release of Lien, Loan Closing Documents, Contracts, Notices, Assignments, Affidavits, Easements
- Electronic brief preparation
- Local Rules filing requirements
- Interactive bookmarks and hyperlinks
- Document and file conversion to digital searchable format
- Cloud-based document management and organization
- Archive email records to digital correspondence files
