John Klopotowski

Background

About John Klopotowski

Litigation Support Analyst/Paralegal IV with U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of CA (San Francisco office); ten-year past career as software specialist with Westlaw/Thomson Reuters. 2018 graduate of CSU East Bay Paralegal Certificate program. Internships with State of California Department of Justice/Attorney General's Office in Oakland, and Judge Jacob Blea at Alameda County Superior Court, Dublin CA. Expertise in eDiscovery administration (large-scale document processing, review, and production), criminal and civil procedure, analysis of corporate business records, litigation case management and organization, trial presentation, legal research and writing, drafting applications. Winner of 2018 San Francisco Paralegal Association scholarship legal essay contest.Legal Skills and software experience:• Document review: eDiscovery specialist, experience with iPro/Eclipse platform (processing/review/production), nuix, LAW processing, Relativity, CaseMap, Concordance, LiveNote; certified CaseLogistix Administrator, significant document review experience.• Trial presentation: Trial Director, Sanction.• Legal Research: experience using Westlaw, online investigation and location tools, State of California opinions, California Jury Instructions, media research (news archives), and other sources.• Legal writing: research summaries and memos, pleadings, discovery requests and responses, demand and opinion letters, deposition transcript summaries, software tutorials.• Legal Document drafting and automation: experience with Westlaw Drafting Assistant, Deal Proof, Contract Express, custom MS Word templates, Adobe plug-ins, Nuance PDF, Best Authority.• Document Management: experience with iManage Filesite / Worksite, eDocs, Net Documents.• Time and billing: experience with WebTime, TABS 3 / Practice Master.