Jean Hinton has over 30 years of experience as a legal administrative assistant and paralegal. She obtained her Paralegal Certification in August 1995 from the National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc. Ms. Hinton began her career in Washington, D.C. with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prior to her move to Florida, she went on to work with one of the top ten prestigious law firms in the nation. Ms. Hinton works with the Business Litigation Practice Group at Shutts & Bowen LLP. Her extensive experience as a litigation paralegal has encompassed areas such as product liability, construction and environmental law, general defense litigation, and complex commercial litigation.
Ms. Hinton works on fact investigations, research and analyzing documents and pleadings from the inception of a case to its conclusion. Her experience also includes formulating written discovery; reviewing discovery responses and documents produced and preparing summaries thereof; scheduling discovery responses for timely filing/serving and arranging for production of documents; inspection, review for privilege and cataloging of documents in preparation for document production; participation in document productions and preparation of summaries of documents produced in complex litigation cases; preparation of privilege logs; preparation of witness and exhibit lists; preparing subpoenas and addenda of documents to be produced; reviewing and summarizing depositions; preparation of chronologies and timelines of events; legal research; drafting of motions, affidavits and legal memoranda; organization and indexing of documents; preparation of correspondence, memoranda and status/report letters; review and summarization of medical records and maintenance of litigation docket system. Ms. Hinton has assisted with the preparation of and attended depositions, arbitrations and trials in the federal and state court levels. She is also a member in good standing of the National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc. and the Central Florida Paralegal Association, and in March 2008 became a Florida Registered Paralegal.
