Paralegal Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Paralegal resume example
A complete sample in the Modern template FitMyRole exports. The person and employers are fictional; the structure, skills and bullet style are what to copy.
Marisol Quintero
[email protected] • (555) 017-5521 • Washington, DC • linkedin.com/in/marisolquintero
Professional Summary
Senior Litigation Paralegal with 7 years of experience supporting complex commercial and regulatory litigation in federal courts, plus a year of corporate contract work. Supports four partners and six associates on a docket of 35 active matters, managing discovery, e-filing, trial preparation and deadline calendaring in the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia and the D.C. Circuit. Has prepared exhibits and witness binders for five trials and two evidentiary hearings, and runs document review projects of up to 900,000 records in Relativity. Fluent in Spanish and known for building case calendars attorneys trust without double-checking.
Skills
- Litigation Support: Pleadings and motions preparation, discovery requests and responses, privilege logs, deposition preparation, trial binders and exhibit lists, subpoenas, case chronologies
- eDiscovery & Document Management: Relativity, Everlaw, ESI collection and processing, Bates numbering, production QC, iManage, NetDocuments, document management protocols
- Legal Research: Westlaw, Lexis+, PACER, docket research, cite-checking, Bluebook citation, public records and corporate filings research
- Court Filing & Case Management: CM/ECF e-filing, D.C. Superior Court eFiling, CompuLaw and court rules calendaring, CaseMap, Clio, Excel matter trackers
- Contracts & Corporate: Contract drafting support, contract lifecycle tracking, NDAs and vendor agreements, entity management, due diligence data rooms
- Languages & Tools: Spanish (fluent, written and spoken), Microsoft 365, Adobe Acrobat Pro, TrialDirector, Teams and Zoom deposition support
Education & Certification
- Minor in Criminal Justice; coursework in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Legal Writing.
- Covers review workflows, searching, coding layouts and production sets in Relativity.
Work Experience
Senior Litigation ParalegalJanuary 2023 – PresentAshby Kendrick LLP, Washington, DC
- Support four partners and six associates on 35 active commercial, False Claims Act and regulatory enforcement matters in D.D.C., E.D. Va. and the D.C. Circuit.
- Filed 600+ pleadings, motions and exhibits through CM/ECF with zero rejected or late filings by building a two-person check of every deadline in CompuLaw.
- Managed document review for a 900,000-record government contracts dispute in Relativity, setting up coding panels, search term reports and privilege logs for a 15-reviewer team.
- Prepared exhibit lists, witness binders and TrialDirector presentations for three federal trials, including a 9-day jury trial in the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Cut production QC errors from 6 per production to under 1 by writing a production checklist covering Bates ranges, redactions, load files and confidentiality stamps.
- Draft discovery requests and responses, deposition notices and subpoenas, and summarize deposition transcripts within three business days for the trial team.
- Train three junior paralegals on federal filing rules, Relativity workflows and the firm’s calendaring protocol.
Litigation ParalegalAugust 2020 – December 2022Fairhaven & Lowe LLP, Washington, DC
- Supported 20 to 25 commercial contract and employment litigation matters at a time, maintaining case files, correspondence indexes and case chronologies in CaseMap.
- Coordinated 45 depositions over two years, including court reporters, remote video links, exhibit sets and Spanish-language interpreters.
- Saved an estimated $60K in vendor fees by bringing processing and review of small productions in-house on Everlaw for matters under 50,000 documents.
- Researched dockets, prior rulings and opposing expert testimony on Westlaw and PACER, delivering memos that associates used in motion practice.
- Assembled two evidentiary hearing binders and coordinated exhibit stipulations with opposing counsel’s paralegals.
Corporate Legal AssistantJune 2019 – July 2020Potomac Grid Energy, Arlington, VA
- Tracked 400+ vendor, supply and service contracts in the legal department’s contract database, flagging renewals and notice deadlines 90 days ahead.
- Drafted first versions of NDAs and standard vendor agreements from approved templates for review by two in-house attorneys.
- Maintained entity records, annual reports and registered agent filings for 14 subsidiaries across six states.
- Organized a virtual data room of 2,300 documents for an asset acquisition due diligence review on a six-week timeline.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- Matter volume and attorney coverage appear in the first bullet (35 active matters for four partners and six associates), which answers the first question a litigation partner asks.
- Filing accuracy is proven, not claimed: "600+ pleadings, motions and exhibits through CM/ECF with zero rejected or late filings" plus the two-person deadline check that made it possible.
- The skills section names the actual platforms law firms screen for (Relativity, Everlaw, CaseMap, CompuLaw, iManage, Westlaw), and the Relativity certification backs up the eDiscovery claim.
- Every bullet names a function rather than "assisted attorneys": document review set-up, deposition coordination, trial exhibits, production QC and contract tracking.
- The courts are named (D.D.C., E.D. Va., the D.C. Circuit), which tells a firm the candidate already knows those local rules and filing systems.
Common Resume Mistakes
- No case or matter volume.
- Missing litigation or contract keywords.
- Generic "assisted attorneys" without function.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Paralegal
- Litigation
- Discovery
- Legal research
- Contracts
- Document management
- Filing
- Case management
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