Please note, this tier does not include any substantive legal work.  These tasks individually take an hour or less on average and include tasks such as: 

• Meeting & appointment scheduling 

• Client/correspondence follow up such as thank you notes, simple response letters and inquiry responses

• Travel Arrangements

• Expense Reports

• Time entry

• Basic reports such as weekly tasks, sales and deliverables

• Basic spreadsheets

• Basic database maintenance

• Email management, filtering and routing

• Online Meeting management including scheduling and meeting set up

• Electronic document management/organization

• Simple presentations

• Internet research

• Mail merges

• Transcription

These tasks individually take 3 hours or less on average and include such tasks as: 

• Bar membership maintenance

• Vendor contract review and RFPs

• Vendor Coordination for events (does not include on site event coordination)

• Complex word processing such as legal notice letters and responses in correspondence

• Complex database management such as discovery database management, etc.

• Drafting Pleadings, including Tables of Authorities and Tables of Contents

• Drafting Discovery and responses

• Trial and Witness Binder materials

• Electronic Exhibit preparation

• Docketing

• Complex presentations involving imbedded document links, videos, and spreadsheets

These tasks vary in complexity and therefore time requirement and include such tasks as:

Intellectual Property

• Deposition Transcript review and annotation

• Blue Book Cite Checking and Shepardizing

• EDIS/ECF Filing

• Claim charts

• Patent Searches

• Definition in Trade searches

• Caselaw research

• Foreign language research (Russian) and light translation
• Application filing – copyright, patent, Trademark
• Maintenance fees

Legal Operations

• Procedural and Process development
• Budget Reconciliation and reporting
• Complex spreadsheets such as multi sheet budgets and cross sheet formulas
• Case Management system (CMS)  administration and development
• Invoice processing with CMS (including Cleo, MyCase, and LegalTracker)

Local event coordination or on-site office work

Includes trial paralegal work.

NOTE: Local office work and on-site services are available on a limited basis and by special arrangement; travel time and travel expenses will be billed.