Fred Jones III
 3620 Strathavon Rd Residence phone:
 Shaker Heights, OH 44120  [Send email to request phone number] 16.6656
E-mail address:

Education

Denver Paralegal Institute, ABA approved paralegal certificate August 1997
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 
Bachelor of Arts; Social Work September 1993
Dean's List; Certificates for Criminal Justice and Correctional Law 

Computer and Language Skills

Advanced: Ringtail; Excel; Imanage; Lexis-Nexis Office 97; LiveNotes; Lotus
Notes; Microsoft Word.
Intermediate: Citrix database; Concordance; On-line litigation databases;
WESTLAW, Access; Summation; Access.
Basic: Discovery Pro Indexing System; Paradox; PowerPoint; WordPerfect 6.1 and
5.1; Zyfind, Windows NT .
Basic: SQL; HTML

Professional Experience

JurInnov, LTD., Cleveland, Ohio March 2007 - October 2009
 Litigation Support Specialist
Developed Deal Room/Data Room for M&A reviews ( Administered the Ringtail Legal
ASP Sites ( Assisted with administering the Regnet and Global Regulatory Overview
(GRO) sites (Trained users in the use of Ringtail Legal ( Attended Litigation
Support Personnel meetings ( Loaded data to Ringtail Legal sites hosted (
Answered questions from users of Ringtail Legal ( Supported users of Ringtail
Legal ( Provided Ringtail Legal consulting ( Reviewed new features of Ringtail
and communicate to users how to use those features ( Managed new client
engagements including database design and workflow optimization, data loading and
ongoing maintenance ( Troubleshot Ringtail technical and consulting issues (
Modified/manipulated data within Ringtail.

Contract Paralegal Positions in Ohio February 2005 - May 2006
Trial Preparation ( Created and organized pleading binders ( Trial exhibit
notebooks for testimony ( Created and compiled master exhibits and index (
Document review for responsive and non-responsive material ( Review for privilege
information.

Contract Paralegal Positions in Michigan July 2003 - February 2005
 Assisted Project Manager in with a groups of ten attorneys for an intellectual
property
 review ( Assisted Project Manager with a group of three for document review
and
 organization ( Drafted pleadings and motions ( Prepared for and attended
arbitration
 hearings Prepared for trial ( Created and organized trial, witness notebooks
and
 deposition exhibits.

Contract Paralegal Positions in Colorado September 2001 - October 2002
 Prepared for and attended depositions ( Assisted in the gathering of evidence
used in
 the case ( Assisted in interview and coordinating with expert witnesses about
 testimony and evidence used ( Conducted analysis of evidence used in the case
 ( Drafted Provisional Patent ( Legal research conducted for trademark issues (
 Prepared deposition designations and exhibits ( Created trial exhibit list (
Cite
 checked and Shepardized legal research.

Arnold & Porter, Denver, CO February 2000-August 2001
Corporate Securities
Assigned to a client site for one-month to assist Investor Relations Coordinator
with exercising employee stock options ( Answered employee questions re cash-less
options ( Edited script for annual stockholders meeting ( Created stock
certificates ( Communicated with various brokers and answered questions regarding
cash-less options( Answered information requested by stockholders for 10K, 10Q,
Proxy Statements and Annual reports.
Legislative
Supported three lobbyists in a five state reporting region ( Drafted disclosure
statements and researched State statutes for lobbyists in all five States (
Drafted memoranda regarding conclusion of research conducted.
Product Liability
Researched using the WESTLAW database to locate case references ( Indexed
pleading and correspondence folders ( Reviewed discovery material in preparation
of deposition ( Summarized depositions.

State of Colorado-Office of the Attorney General, Denver June 1999-December
1999
Education Law
Established and maintained Concordance database for logic and accessibility to
legal issues involving construction law, finance, facility management,
accountability and constitutional law ( Updated and produced reports from
concordance database to assist in deposition and trial preparation ( Organized
and maintained over 125,000 hard copy documents for logic and accessibility

Holme, Roberts & Owen, Denver, CO October 1997-June 1999
General Litigation
Created and organized complaint allegation notebooks ( Organized documents for
response to defendant's brief ( Created witness list ( 
Real Estate
Reviewed franchise leases agreements ( Drafted UCC-1 and UCC-3 documents (
Researched articles of organization on Secretary of State's database ( Obtained
certificates of Good Standing from Secretary of State ( Researched lien
statements on Colorado Central Indexing System ( Created and organized closing
books.
 Conflicts Clerk 
Simultaneously ran conflict of interest searches while providing paralegal
support to attorneys in the firm ( Researched the firm's database for possible
conflicts of
interest ( Created tracking system in Lotus Notes for use with conflict of
interest ( Assisted with conversion and creation of database ( Assisted Legal
Recruiter with research of potential new hires ( Conducted on line research to
assist legal recruiter with potential new hires ( Maintained Lotus Notes database
for Legal
Recruiter ( Created and maintained ethical walls.

Associations
National Federation of Paralegal Associations
Cleveland Association of Paralegals\ Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
 Association of Litigation Support Professionals