Christopher DeGraff

• Managed high-volume caseloads effectively by creating organized systems for tracking deadlines and prioritizing tasks.
• Ensured accurate record-keeping by maintaining up-to-date case files, both physical and electronic formats.
• Supported attorneys during trial proceedings, ensuring the availability of key exhibits and witnesses when needed.
• Organized evidence, exhibits, motions, and subpoenas to support cases and prepare for trial.
• Drafted pleadings, motions, and briefs in compliance with court rules, leading to successful outcomes in numerous cases.

• Drafted legal motions and pleadings in preparation for trial.
• Performed docketing tasks and complied with various deadlines.
• Completed electronic court filings at state and federal levels.
• Organized evidence, exhibits, motions and subpoenas to support cases and prepare for trial.
• Assisted in preparing for depositions and other steps in the discovery process.
• Collaborated with attorneys to develop strategies for each case.

• Assisted in the litigation process, attending trial and drafting stipulations.
• Conducted detailed client intakes and entered information into company database.
• Conferred with clients and other involved parties to gather and track case information.
• Prepared legal briefs, motions and pleadings.
• Researched state statutes, decisions, legal articles, codes and documents.
• Coordinated trial exhibits by organizing materials, writing documentation and preparing digital materials and displays.
• Contacted key witnesses to testify at court hearings.
• Directed and coordinated service of subpoenas and scheduling of depositions for several legal professionals.
• Drafted, signed and certified key legal documents for judicial review.
• Created highly researched and articulate legal paperwork such as pleadings, contracts and briefs.

- Assisted counsel in preparing answers, providing documentation and information for discovery request.

- Prepared legal briefs, motions and pleadings.

- Contributed to, maintained and updated online data repositories for accessibility and to reflect firm standards.

- Collected, drafted and maintained resources to provide comprehensive materials accessible to all firm lawyers.

- Conduct full-scale recruiting, pay roll, and vendor credentialing amongst 30-40 clients at a time
- Manage the full-cycle of recruitment process ensuring a positive candidate experience amongst 10-15 candidates per week, fluently in English and Spanish

- Expert in assessing strong candidate pipeline in light industrial, warehouse, administrative, government fields

- Provided 300-1500 billable hours for 40-50 hired candidates in various industries

- Execute customer-facing B2B sales to grow revenue and diversify talent pool

-Research and recommend new approaches and processes for continual improvement in the talent acquisition efforts
- Able to translate complicated regulations into real world and practicable client responses

- Promoted to the company’s CORE MSP team in a short period after excelling and advancing within recruiting role in RPO CORE
- Served as a point of contact for the all East Coast and Midwest regions

- Conducted high-volume sourcing and recruiting, travel coordination

- Performed vendor credentialing tasks for hospitals associated with Becton Dickinson

- Proficient knowledge of recruiting metrics, assessment tools and techniques

- Maintained a successful track record in building and maintaining relationships confidentially

- Recruited for full time and contract positions transversally in both English and Spanish
- Collaborated with numerous high-caliber clients including Comcast, Intuit, Southwest Key, Monsanto, and Becton Dickinson/Carefusion

- Strong sourcing skills with demonstrated success utilizing current on-line sourcing techniques, networking and building pipelines
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational awareness, leveraging resources to improve processes while identifying talent

- Grant recipient from the Department of Education of Spain to spend a full academic year immersed in a secondary school
- Mastered the Spanish language that is fully applicable in the work place, both speaking, writing and in business

- Served as full-time professor, including planning lessons and instructing a classroom