Dan, who resides in Massachusetts, took his girlfriend out to dinner at an expensive restaurant called Le Chateau in New Hampshire. He had a dish that included pasta, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, scallions, and slivers of crab meat. Shortly after leaving the restaurant, Dan became violently ill and ended up at the hospital, where his stomach was pumped. Dan thinks he got food poisoning from the mushrooms. He alerted the restaurant owner the next day, and the owner said the food at the restaurant could not have made Dan sick. The owner suggested that maybe Dan had too much wine at dinner and overreacted by going to the hospital. This made Dan angry, who was only trying to warn the restaurant owner that the mushrooms might have been bad. Now Dan wants to sue for damages. Dan approaches the law firm where Lucinda works as a paralegal to file the lawsuit. Lucinda's supervising attorney asks her to assist in preparing the paperwork and undertaking some of the initial work needed to start the lawsuit.

What paperwork would need to be prepared and what would the paralegal do in a case like this?