Childcare/Data Protection Paralegal - Lambeth Council
(2019-10)
Over 6 years' experience managing Subject Access Requests under UK GDPR and DPA 2018. Skilled in data redaction, legal exemption handling, and safeguarding sensitive personal data. Proven ability to assess and mitigate disclosure risks, advise colleagues on information rights, and uphold organisational compliance. Worked in the Inquiry Legal Team (ILT) on the Lambeth Council strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), a public inquiry.
- Conducting research and fact-checking for the case study statement and other tasks, drafting and amending parts of the statement, setting up, allocation and coordination of tasks, main contact for paralegals with work queries and human resources issues, supporting Senior Lawyers and Lawyers within my sub-team and the broader ILT, quality assuring paralegal's work, including finalising internally created exhibits before submission to IICSA
- Identifying incidents of failure in care as well as persons of interests for inquiry and litigation purposes
- Drafting detailed file notes; identifying the life story and main issues in the file as well as highlighting sensitive and/ or traumatic issues for use by Inquiry Legal Team
- Responding to Subject Access Requests by the data subjects. Ensuring that the DS receives a coherent life story through disclosure and redaction of information, in compliance with Data Protection and Freedom of Information Laws
- Assessing potential trauma levels in the file and recommending a social worker to debrief the DS when the file is provided
- Conducting review/sign offs and data quality assurance of redacted files to ensure there is no breach of Data Protection Protocols
- Case management in family subject requests – taking on the role of an auditor carefully examining the file to ensure consistency of files across sibling requests
- Assisting in training new candidates and acting as a buddy to orient them to the workplace
- General administration tasks – attend and minute meetings on rotation basis, support senior lawyer with tasks as appropriate
- Research on Relativity, an e-disclosure platform
- Archive library research
- Collating research findings into various formats (briefing notes, chronologies, visiograms etc.)
- Presenting identified themes to colleague
- Redacted the social care files of children who were formerly in the care of Lambeth Council in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for data subjects who had made a Subject Access Request (SAR)
- Auditing files and overseeing a team of 6-8 paralegals, making sure that work is completed according to GDPR rules, in a timely manner
- Experienced in housing disrepair, adult social care and police disclosures
Arabic Litigation Paralegal - Baker & Mckenzie LLP
(2018-11 - 2019-11)
- Reviewing Arabic documents in response to court disclosure
Litigation Paralegal - Mishcon de Reya LLP
(2018-10 - 2018-11)
- Working on cases for several private clients for a court disclosure
- Bundling and preparing folders for court disclosure
- Archiving bundles and sending documents back to the client
Document Review Paralegal - Grenfell Tower Inquiry
(2018-10 - 2018-10)
- Redacting private and confidential information in accordance with GDPR
Document Review, Paralegal - Pinsent Masons
(2018-09 - 2018-10)
- Reviewing documents in response to the Grenfell inquiry using Axcelerate
Document Review Paralegal - KPMG
(2018-08 - 2018-08)
- Reviewing documents on relativity for Court Disclosure
Arabic Litigation Paralegal - Baker & Mckenzie LLP
(2018-06 - 2018-08)
- Reviewing Arabic documents in response to a court disclosure
- Meeting clients to explain issues relating to the case and its progress
Litigation Paralegal - Mishcon de Reya LLP
(2018-07 - 2018-06)
- Reviewing documents in response to a court order for disclosure of information
Legal Researcher - Integreon
(2018-07 - 2018-08)
- Researching key laws for insurance companies in the Middle East, such as Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait UAE and KSA
- Translating Arabic laws and rules that are applicable to the key law requirements for the insurance company in question
Property & Liability Paralegal - Clyde & Co
(2018-04 - 2018-07)
- Reviewing documents in response to the Grenfell inquiry
Danish Document Review Paralegal - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
(2018-01 - 2018-02)
- Examining documents such as memos, letters, e-mails PowerPoint presentation, spreadsheets and other e-documents, to determine whether the information is relevant to the project. Also, while redacting sensitive information.
Danish Document Review Paralegal - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
(2017-11 - 2018-01)
- Examining medical documents for an e-disclosure exercise (using Relativity) and determining their relevance to the case.
Legal Researcher - Integreon
(2017-04 - 2017-11)
- Researching key laws for insurance companies in the Middle East, such as Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait and UAE
- Translating Arabic laws and rules that are applicable to the key law requirements for the insurance company
Litigation Paralegal - Enyo Law LLP
(2016-03 - 2017-04)
- Assisting mainly with the review of a large number of Arabic documents for an e-disclosure exercise in a USD 2.1 billion claim in the High Court in London
- Translating and proofreading external translations of Arabic documents
- Listening to Arabic audio files and reviewing transcripts. Correcting and making sure that the transcripts are fully coherent with the audio file
- Working on Magnum to check bundles and report of any inconsistencies
- Going through final transcript that will be presented in court
- Archiving files after the case was settled
Danish Litigation Paralegal - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
(2015-11 - 2016-02)
- Reviewing documents, examining thousands of documents such as memos, letters, e-mails PowerPoint presentation, spreadsheets, and other e-documents, to determine whether the information can be used in a particular case
Operations Support Administrator - Paddington Station
(2013-10 - 2014-12)
Team Management and Operational Assistance
- Ensuring new starters are set up on the electronic systems (including Kronos)
- Maintaining colleagues Personnel Files, Training Files and HR Tracker
- Monitoring colleague absence levels/lateness and reporting on an ad hoc or regular basis as required by the Unit Manager
- Monitoring and reporting on voids processed
- Reviewing Kronos on a weekly basis to ensure all colleagues receive the correct salary
- Completing safe checks with members of the management team
- Reporting and assisting in the investigation of till variances
- Collection and banking of charity monitoring
- Completion of daily paperwork to ensure that deliveries are correct, and credits accurately received
- Managing annual leave for colleagues in the unit(s)
- Holding Inductions for new colleagues
- Ordering colleague(s) ID's, badges and uniforms
- Managing the stationary stock
- Liaising with the Central HR Administration Team to process changes to colleague's salaries (PDF's)
- Completing refresher training (i.e. fire licensing)
- Ensuring the effective implementation of all new and existing processes/ information to staff through the management of notice boards, newsletters and local communication
- Drafting correspondence with confidentiality
- Ensuring accurate notes are taking during meetings (i.e. employee relations meetings)
- Ensuring the maintenance of manual and electronic filing systems
- Managing post (internal and external)
- Processing visitor passes, and escorting visitors when necessary
