Speaker

Wisner Baum

Speaker Bio

Valeriya Adlivankina is a Litigation Paralegal with 17 years of legal experience and more than a decade with her current firm. A graduate of the West Los Angeles College Paralegal Program and a certified paralegal for nine years, she has advanced through roles ranging from mail clerk and litigation technology and database management to serving in senior and lead paralegal roles on major mass tort matters.

She has extensive litigation support experience at the trial and appellate levels in California and Pennsylvania state courts, U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, including mass torts, MDLs, JCCPs, class actions, and other coordinated and consolidated matters.

Her experience also includes significant case management, discovery, calendaring, trial preparation, and litigation technology responsibilities. She has trained and mentored over 20 paralegals and legal assistants on litigation procedures, trial preparation, case management, calendaring, discovery and document workflows, and litigation technology.

Her notable experience includes assisting R. Brent Wisner during the 2019 Roundup trial and serving as lead paralegal for her firm’s Roundup and Zantac litigation.

Agenda

When to see them

Thursday
October 15

9:45 am Managing the Many Relationships of a Mass Tort Paralegal: Clients, Attorneys, Colleagues, Referral Partners, and the Courts Grand Ballroom 1