Paralegals
Mari J. Dziekan, R.N.
mdziekan@keatingjones.com
Mari was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and moved to Oregon in 1970. She spent one year at the University of New Mexico before returning to Oregon to begin training in nursing. She is a graduate of the Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing.
Mari has a variety of nursing experience, including providing patient care in the areas of long term nursing, medical/surgical, orthopedics, neurology/neurosurgery, and rehabilitation nursing at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon. Since 1987 she has been utilizing her nursing experience to assist in the defense of physicians, hospitals, and nurses in medical malpractice cases.
Patricia M. Looney
plooney@keatingjones.com
Patty was born in San Fernando, California, and raised in Medford, Oregon. She attended Southern Oregon University.
Patty worked for many years in the workers’ compensation field both in the insurance industry and as a paralegal involved with litigation preparation.
She specializes in analyzing medical records in the defense of doctors and hospitals in the medical malpractice field and has worked at Keating Jones Hughes since March 2002.
Linda R. Connell
lconnell@keatingjones.com
Linda was born and raised in upstate New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University in 1978 and her paralegal certificate from Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland in1990.
Linda worked in the state court systems in Maryland and Oregon from 1987 to 2001 and has worked in Portland for two private law firms specializing in medical malpractice defense since then. She has worked at Keating Jones Hughes since July 2007.
Caren Burke
cburke@keatingjones.com
Caren was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1974, she worked for one year in the Idaho Attorney General's Office. She subsequently completed one year of law school at the University of Idaho, College of Law, before accepting a position to work as an assistant in the Secretary's Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington D.C.
Since her employment with the federal government, Caren has worked for more than 15 years as a paralegal assisting both plaintiff's and insurance defense firms in Washington, California, Idaho, and Oregon. She has worked in several different areas of law including employment, labor, products liability and workers' compensation law, but the majority of her experience relates to personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Caren has been employed at Keating Jones Hughes since August 2010.
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