Stone Rowe Brewer LLP – Legal Secretary November 2022 – March 2023
- Assisted the firm’s Partner with day to day activities including:
Preparation of meeting with new and existing clients by arranging appointment time, diarising, booking conference rooms, preparing appropriate documents for the meeting and briefing the Partner on each client’s situation.
- Worked in a team of 4 comprised of two Solicitors and two Secretaries:
Coordinated between myself and the other Secretary to spread the workload with utmost efficiency. Prioritised tasks by consulting with our superiors. The various tasks consisted:
- Typing dictated instructions and executing them;
- Drafting letters to clients;
- Making Complaints to Courts;
- Filling in Court Forms such as Form E Financial Statement for a Financial Order;
- Assisting in preparation of bundles;
- Processing mark-ups with court amendments;
- Assisting in the preparation of bills.
LJ Legal – Paralegal May 2022 – November2022
- Researched a variety of legal issues such as the process for application for a liquidation of a limited company.
- Drafted Letters Before Claim – helped clients with recovering debts by:
- studying their case, drafting 1st draft and sending it for comments to my superior,
- incorporating the comments and posting the Letter to the recipient,
- following on the progress and if there is a need making a money claim the in the appropriate court;
- supervising the claim process and reporting this to my superior.
- Writing short social media articles in English and Russian.
Citizens Advice – Trainee Advisor November 2020 – January 2022
- Explored complex benefits and housing issues on behalf of clients;
- Guided clients with their legal housing matters by collaborating with council and other organisations;
- Referred client cases to tribunals when appropriate.
Citizens Advice – Assessor February 2019 – November 2020
- Answered phone calls and collected relevant information from clients;
- Complied with GDPR by obtaining clients’ consent and setting up their profiles in internal case management system;
- Assisted supervisors to decide next steps on individual cases and communicated outcome to clients;
- Trained new volunteers by introducing them to the processes and scoring them on mock calls.
- Arcadian Law – Office Administrator October 2018 – February 2019
- Invoiced clients using advanced in-house payment system;
- Handled the opening and closing clients’ cases; and archived these.
