Meredith A. Calloway

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Senior Paralegal with 9 years of experience supporting complex civil litigation and corporate transactional matters at AmLaw 200 firms. Specializes in e-discovery management, deposition coordination, and contract review across healthcare and financial services sectors. Reduced document review turnaround by 34% by implementing a standardized Relativity workflow adopted firm-wide.

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Senior ParalegalMar 2019 - Present

Hargrove & Tillman LLP, Atlanta, GA

Managed e-discovery for 14 concurrent commercial litigation matters, processing over 2.1 million documents in Relativity and cutting review costs by $180,000 annually through targeted culling protocols.
Drafted and proofread 60+ demand letters, motions, and appellate briefs with a 98% first-pass attorney approval rate, reducing revision cycles from an average of 3.2 to 1.4 per document.
Coordinated logistics for 38 depositions across 6 states in a single calendar year, including witness prep packets and real-time exhibit management, keeping all matters on schedule and under budget.

Litigation ParalegalJun 2015 - Feb 2019

Fenwick & Colby PC, Charlotte, NC

Supported a 4-attorney team in a 22-month wrongful-termination class action involving 340 plaintiffs, organizing a 480,000-document repository and preparing trial binders that attorneys credited with a favorable $4.2 million settlement.
Conducted legal research using Westlaw and LexisNexis, producing weekly case-law digests that reduced attorney research time by an estimated 6 hours per week per attorney.
Onboarded and mentored 3 junior paralegals, developing a 12-module training guide that cut ramp-up time from 8 weeks to 5 weeks.

Paralegal AssistantAug 2013 - May 2015

Strickland Legal Group, Charlotte, NC

Processed and filed pleadings, subpoenas, and discovery responses across 30+ active matters in the Mecklenburg County court system with a zero missed-deadline record over 21 months.
Maintained and reconciled client billing records in Clio, identifying $22,400 in unbilled time over a 6-month audit period.
Drafted initial versions of 90+ client intake summaries and chronologies, enabling attorneys to assess case viability 40% faster than prior intake process.

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