Jaycel B. Ruiz
Lead Paralegal · Executive Assistant · AI Specialist
Civil Litigation & Legal Operations · Los Angeles, CA
Where legal tradition meets
AI-assisted precision.
Juris Doctor and senior paralegal with a decade of legal practice across the Philippines and the United States — now leading AI-assisted operations at a California civil litigation firm.
I've built my career at the seam between two worlds: classic paralegal craft — state and federal filings, discovery, trial prep, client intake — and the quickly maturing stack of legal AI tools that is reshaping how firms actually operate. I design and document the workflows, I train the team, and I keep the quality bar where it needs to be.
Currently serving as Lead Paralegal, Executive Assistant, and AI Specialist at Ingber Law Group, where I support civil litigation and product liability matters end-to-end.
A decade in the trenches
of real legal work.
Civil litigation. Estate planning. Probate. Compliance. Personal injury. Product liability. Government practice.
- Drafting pleadings, discovery, correspondence, and motion practice materials for state and federal matters
- Managing the case file across intake, discovery, depositions, trial prep, and post-trial — including exhibit and evidence organization
- Coordinating with medical providers, third-party service providers, opposing counsel, and car dealerships on product liability matters
- Executive administrative support to the attorney — inbox triage, meeting coordination, travel, expense reports, and confidential matters
- Leveraging Harvey AI, Spellbook, CoCounsel, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for legal research, document review, and draft production across the caseload
- Designing and automating paralegal workflows via prompt engineering — intake summaries, medical records review, deposition digests, case chronologies
- Evaluating, piloting, and rolling out new legal AI tools; writing internal SOPs and training the team on safe, effective AI use
- Implementing AI-assisted QA and proofreading layers to flag citation errors, inconsistencies, and missing exhibits pre-filing
- Drafting estate planning documents and preparing probate filings
- Conducting legal research and case law review; coordinating with attorneys
- Client communication and intake; calendar and deadline management
- Record maintenance and organization of client files; legal administrative support
- Executive administrative support · inbox and calendar management · project management
- Compliance workflow support; internet and LinkedIn research; data entry; communications
- Tools: Drata, Notion, Asana, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, HubSpot, Airtable, Qwilr, Slack, Zoom, Loom
- Case preparation, legal research, proofreading, and court filings
- Client communications — follow-ups on court hearings, file and document collection, billing
- Collaborating with the attorney on active matters; legal administrative support
- Legal research and legal writing for government offices
- Court observation, site visits, and negotiation
- Legal research and writing; form intakes; organization of case files and materials
- Client communications — court hearing reminders, document collection, billings
- Legal administrative support
The stack I run on.
Legal case management, AI-native workflows, productivity, and communications — all the tools I actually use in daily practice.
Formally trained.
Still learning every day.
Staying connected
outside the firm.
Usana Health Sciences
Attending networking events and fundraisers, building relationships with other network marketing professionals, and participating in leadership and business trainings and seminars.
Need a paralegal who can actually run an AI-assisted practice?
Available for new engagements — full-time, contract, or project-based. Civil litigation, estate planning, legal ops, or AI implementation for a firm that’s ready.