Six practice areas. One impeccable standard.
Substantive paralegal work product for California law firms — drafted under your direction, formatted to your style, and delivered ahead of your deadline. Pursuant to Bus. & Prof. Code § 6450, services are available to licensed attorneys and law firms only.
What lands on DeVera’s desk, and leaves finished.
Family Law
End-to-end support for dissolution, custody, and support matters.
- Petitions, responses, and Requests for Order
- Declarations of disclosure and income & expense packages
- Judgment packages and marital settlement agreement drafts
- Hearing binders with tabbed exhibits and chronologies
Estate Planning
Polished plan documents your clients will actually understand.
- Revocable trust, will, POA, and healthcare directive drafts
- Trust funding letters, deeds, and assignment documents
- Beneficiary and asset summaries for client signing meetings
- Amendment and restatement preparation
Juvenile Dependency
Meticulous case support for a court where details decide outcomes.
- Case chronologies from detention through review hearings
- Service and visitation logs, organized and summarized
- Report review with flagged discrepancies for counsel
- Hearing preparation notebooks and exhibit sets
Probate
From petition to final distribution without a missed notice.
- Probate petitions and letters of administration
- Inventories & appraisals with probate referee coordination
- Accountings, creditor claim tracking, and notices
- Final distribution petitions and closing packages
Criminal Law
Defense-side support that keeps counsel focused on strategy.
- Motion drafting (suppression, discovery, Pitchess, and more)
- Discovery review, Bates indexing, and evidence logs
- Witness lists and subpoena preparation
- Trial exhibit organization and courtroom-ready binders
Civil Litigation
The paper side of litigation, handled with precision.
- Complaints, answers, and law-and-motion drafting
- Written discovery, responses, and meet-and-confer letters
- Deposition summaries and exhibit indexes
- Trial notebooks, TOC/TOA, and e-filing support
Also on the menu.
- E-filing & court logistics — TrueFiling and county EFSP submissions, fee waivers, courtesy copies, and filing confirmations back to your inbox.
- Calendaring & deadlines — statutory deadline computation and written confirmation, so nothing on your docket sneaks up on anyone.
- Document management — file organization, Bates numbering, privilege log support, and clean client-ready copies of everything.
Attorney-only, by design. Every engagement is performed for a licensed attorney or law firm under Bus. & Prof. Code § 6450, with work product delivered for attorney review and supervision. Your file, your client, your call — always.
Tell her the deadline. Watch it stop being scary.
Send the matter type, the task, and the date it’s due — DeVera will confirm scope and availability the same day.