Vanessa Buffington
A native San Franciscan, began her career in the legal field as a temp-receptionist. After quickly learning the ropes of the legal field, she became a legal secretary with an ability and a talent for mentoring other legal secretaries, paralegals and law office staff. She then decided to go back to school and obtain her paralegal degree. Currently Vanessa owns her own small business, offering her legal services on a contract basis to various firms throughout the Bay Area since March of 2014. She has extensive experience in both transactional and litigation matters on the plaintiff and defense side, in both the public and private sectors. Her experience encompasses multiple areas of law such as employment, insurance defense, construction defect, education, personal injury, medical malpractice, investigations, business, disparity studies, labor relations and negotiations.
lauren diaz
Growing up in the bay area Lauren has always had a love for the law. After obtaining her paralegal degree almost 10 years ago, she has worked in mostly small to medium sized law firms in Northern California in positions ranging from Legal Secretary to Law Firm Administrator. She began her career in Marin as a paralegal specializing in construction defect and business law litigation. She later moved to a start up firm in the east bay focusing on Plaintiff’s bad faith insurance litigation for first party and third party claims. Currently, Lauren is supporting 6 attorneys and 1 paralegal in a small plaintiff’s firm specializing in medical malpractice and personal injury litigation in San Francisco. Lauren has extensive trial preparation experience and has assisted in many trials all over the state of California. In her personal time, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends.