Owner, ADC Litigation Support
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- Contract Paralegal at Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins LLP
- Owner/CEO at ADC Litigation Support
- Past
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- Legal Assistant/Paralegal at White & Wiggins, L.L.P.
- Legal Secretary at Hughes & Luce LLP (n/k/a K&L Gates)
- Junior Legal Assistant at Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP
- Education
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- PDI/University of North Texas
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Anna D. Collins’s Summary
16 years of proven experience in the legal profession as a legal secretary, legal assistant and paralegal, primarily in the areas of civil and commercial litigation. The mission of ADC Litigation Support is to provide solo practitioners and small law firms with quality paralegal/legal support staff assistance on an as-needed basis, without the expense of hiring and retaining a full time staff member.
Anna D. Collins’s Specialties:
legal document drafting; legal and investigative research; deposition and medical record summaries; discovery document review and organization; electronic filing of state and federal court pleadings and motions using CM/ECF and ProDocs; knowledge of state and federal rules of procedure.
Anna D. Collins’s Experience
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Contract Paralegal
Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins LLP
(Law Practice industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Perform legal, fact and investigative research; draft correspondence, pleadings, motions, discovery requests/responses and other legal documents; organize, manage and maintain document-intensive case files; organize, manage and assist wtih document production; maintain calendars and attorney schedules; summarize deposition testimony and medical records; prepare trial and hearing notebooks; interact with clients, court staff, and opposing counsel in person and via telephone; other duties as assigned.
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Owner/CEO
ADC Litigation Support
(Legal Services industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Perform transcription, research and analysis, document review and summary, document drafting and other services for various clients including law firms, solo practitioners, court reporting firms and others.
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Legal Assistant/Paralegal
White & Wiggins, L.L.P.
(Law Practice industry)
April 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 5 months)
Perform legal, fact and investigative research; draft correspondence, pleadings, motions, discovery requests/responses and other legal documents; organize, manage and maintain document-intensive case files; organize, manage and assist wtih document production; maintain calendars and attorney schedules; summarize deposition testimony and medical records; prepare trial and hearing notebooks; interact with clients, court staff, and opposing counsel in person and via telephone; other duties as assigned.
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Legal Secretary
Hughes & Luce LLP (n/k/a K&L Gates)
(Law Practice industry)
November 1999 — April 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Drafted correspondence, estate planning, probate and real estate documents; performed will execution ceremonies; performed investigative research; maintained files, calendars and attorney schedules; interacted with clients in person and via telephone; other duties as assigned by supervising attorneys.
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Junior Legal Assistant
Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP
(Law Practice industry)
August 1996 — June 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Performed investigative research; prepared trial and hearing notebooks; summarized depositions and expert testimony involving breast implant litigation; maintained voluminous files; drafted correspondence, pleadings and discovery responses; other duties as assigned by supervising attorneys.
Anna D. Collins’s Education
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PDI/University of North Texas
Certificate , Paralegal Studies , 2003 — 2003
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Anna D. Collins’s Interests:
reading poetry, learning Spanish, jazz, dining out
Anna D. Collins’s Groups:
National Association for the Self-Employed, National Association for Female Executives.
Anna D. Collins’s Contact Settings
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