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Thomas Shelby,
Candidate,
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Boredom,
Respondent.
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Case No. CV-2026
Curriculum Vitae; Declaration of Thomas Shelby in Support Thereof
Assigned for all purposes to the department of your choosing
THOMAS SHELBY, Senior Litigation Paralegal (CP, CEDS)
412 Grand Avenue, Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Telephone: (555) 013-4471 · Email: t.shelby@example.com · www.example.com/tshelby
I.Declaration of the Candidate
1.I am a senior litigation paralegal with 16 years of experience in complex civil litigation, and I have personal knowledge of every line below. I have managed discovery in more than 30 matters and built a document review workflow that processed 2 million records without missing a production deadline. I have provided trial support through 9 jury trials, which is also why I keep a spare power strip in my car.
II.Statement of Professional History
Senior Litigation Paralegal, Calder & Whitmore LLP, Los Angeles
2017 – Present
- Manage discovery in 12 concurrent matters averaging 180,000 documents each; designed the firm's 2M-document review workflow, cutting first-pass review time from 14 weeks to 9.
- Ran trial support for 6 jury trials, including a 7-week product liability trial with 340 admitted exhibits and same-day transcript indexing.
- Supervise a team of 4 project paralegals and 20 contract reviewers; hold vendor budgets of roughly $600K per year within 3% of estimate.
Litigation Paralegal, Reyes Delgado & Park, Los Angeles
2013 – 2017
- Handled discovery through trial in 11 employment and contract matters; prepared 90+ deposition summaries and privilege logs covering 45,000 documents.
- Second chair support for 3 jury trials; built witness binders and exhibit sets that survived 2 appeals without a record correction.
Case Clerk, then Paralegal, Hartwell Insurance Group (in-house), Glendale
2010 – 2013
- Tracked 250+ open claims files; standardized the litigation hold notice process across 5 business units.
III.Exhibit A: Skills and Systems
| Category |
Particulars |
| eDiscovery platforms |
Relativity (RCA certified), Everlaw, Disco; TAR 2.0 workflows, search term negotiation, production QC |
| Trial technology |
TrialDirector, OnCue, courtroom A/V setup; real-time transcript software |
| Practice areas |
Product liability, employment class actions, insurance coverage, commercial contract disputes |
| Rules and procedure |
California Code of Civil Procedure, FRCP, Central District of California local rules, e-filing (CM/ECF, eFileCA) |
IV.Education and Certifications
B.A., Political Science, California State University, Northridge, 2009
ABA-Approved Paralegal Certificate, UCLA Extension, 2010
Certified Paralegal (CP), NALA, 2012 · CEDS, ACEDS, 2018 · Relativity Certified Administrator, 2019
Certificate of Service
I hereby certify that on the date noted below, a true and correct copy of the foregoing CURRICULUM VITAE was served on the hiring party by electronic mail at the address provided, and that Respondent Boredom was given no further opportunity to be heard.
Dated: Los Angeles, California
Thomas Shelby
THOMAS SHELBY
Declarant · t.shelby@example.com