Bryher

Through F-LEX, I am working as a Privacy Paralegal for 1 year.

1 of 25 selected to receive one to one mentoring and training sessions over the coming year. I will be
mentored by a partner, specialising in commercial litigation, via regular meetings and calls.

The Commercial Development Scheme is a program for future lawyers to hone their commercial skills before their legal careers. My role involved managing projects at legal technology start-up, providing resourcing solutions to law firms and in-house counsel.

This includes:

• Project Management
  • Negotiating and drafting commercial contract terms with existing and prospective clients.
  • Conducted the first review of supplier contracts, sponsorship agreements, non-disclosure agreements and licenses.
  • Coordinating new client requests and managing ongoing projects independently.
  • Regularly interviewing paralegals.
  • Rotational team management of a pool of 3,000 lawyers and paralegals across London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Bristol.
  • Regular in-house legal training sessions on topics such as reviewing contracts, approaching indemnities, and the growth of in-house legal tech
• Finance
  • Understanding pay/charge rates and fee matrices and making direct decisions to maximise business margins
  • Setting up invoicing and billing for every new client
  • Managing paralegal and lawyer pay distribution
• Agency worker care
  • Application of Agency Worker Regulations 2010 and 2019 Amendment to ensure correct adherence as to pay, taxation, pension rights, annual leave and day to day rights in the workplace.
  • Preparation of IR35 and its effect on payees set up as a limited company
  • Reviewing CVs and conducting interviews in line with fair adjustments and equal opportunities policies.
• Compliance
  • Ensuring continued compliance with relevant legislation, including completing internal audits, conducting right to work checks (visa restrictions and residency permits), AWR checks, due diligence reports, and maintaining data in line with GDPR.
• Marketing and Sales
  • Implementing the 2020 sales strategy & business development via CRM and networking events
  • Pitch meetings with partners and professionals services lawyers at law firms such as Cleary Gottlieb
  • Managing social media presence and writing regular articles about factors in the legal industry affecting junior lawyers.
• Corporate Social Responsibility – Implemented a charity initiative among clients

I was selected for a 3-day internship involving seminars and tasks designed and assessed by Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith Freehills, Clyde & Co and Sidley Austin. These included workshops on legal drafting, global investigations, and the anatomy of M&A deals. I completed a legal drafting task, a legal and business research task on litigation and arbitration, wrote a memorandum by synthesising complex legal information and completed a contract review task of an NDA agreement. My personal highlight was successfully drafting a letter of advice to the client regarding the breach of the NDA.

Assisted with a Data Subject Access Request (“DSAR”). I utilised e-Discovery software and Relativity to sort through a large pool of documents to find personal data and enacted redactions on these documents.

The virtual internship consisted of tasks set to a fictitious M&A transaction involving a $375m reverse triangular merger, via InsideSherpa.
Responsibilities included:
• Compiled an issue list and proposed solutions during the negotiation of the NDA.
• Used AI software (Kira) to complete due diligence on our client’s 'no conflict' representation and providing suggestions for the disclosure schedule.
• Advised a shareholder on a potential takeover bid from a current shareholder in line with Delaware Corporation Law.
• Produced a client presentation summarising keys provisions of the earn-out agreement.

Both open days consisted of a series of talks designed to give a in-depth insight into the firm that were delivered by partners and the graduate recruitment team. These concluded with a case study exercise and group presentation, followed by a networking session.

1 of 12 selected to take part in a Mock Assessment Day and Networking Session at Macfarlanes.

1 of 20 selected to attend a Networking Dinner at the firm with the Senior Partner, Partners and the Graduate Recruitment Team.

One of 18, chosen from 3000 applicants across the year, to take part in the Winter Scheme. Over the two-week scheme I sat in Corporate M&A and Equity Capital Markets and Tax seats. Throughout, I completed work for trainees, associates and partners. These tasks included:
- Negotiation simulations in which we had 2 days to prepare our case for a 3-hour negotiation.
- Dispute resolution simulation
- Company Acquisition Seminars
- Research tasks to prepare a report for a client on the PSC regime (‘persons with significant control’ for UK companies.
- Drafting Advice Letters to Clients
- Drafting Client Emails

- Contract Review and Due Diligence tasks
- Research Memo for a derivative claim procedure by a minority shareholder
- Bible analysis to draft a Rule 9 Takeover Circular that did not have previous precedent
- Research Memo of open offer risk factors in a Rule 9 Takeover
- Analysis of articles of association
- Attended HP Dispute Court Hearing
- Head of Terms and Incentives Advice Notes

Two-week placement in the commercial/ residential property teams, and clinical negligence and community
care. Given high amounts of responsibility, completed real work and liaised with clients and caseworkers.

Tasks:
a) Quickly grasped residential property laws: freehold, leasehold, collective enfranchisement, right of first
refusal and missing freeholder procedure under s.27 LRA 1967
b) Report on the qualification criteria and procedure for a collective enfranchisement of a residential
leasehold building where the landlord is absent to be used and issued to current clients.
c) Drafting two tenant’s initial notices pursuant to s.13 LRA 1993 and Document Review for Leasehold Contracts
d) Established evidence and completed a letter of complaint regarding the unmet educational needs of an
unaccompanied asylum seeker over the course of a SC age dispute.

e) Examined alienation covenants to assess the validity of sub-lets for three commercial leases
f) Shadowed the lead commercial litigation solicitor across 2 cases to gain an insight into dispute
resolution.

g) Various Due Diligance Checks for commercial documents

10-hour open access internship programme with InsideSherpa. Tasks included business development presentations, project management and briefs, drafting dispute resolution clauses for a shareholder’s agreement, AI in Law, legal research, resource and business management, and client communication simulations.

Tasks:

1. Pitched a Request of Proposal to a consortium of banks as they looked to engage legal advisors for a complex fintech acquisition.
2. Researched the execution requirements for a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA).
3. Assisted the corporate, IP, employment and regulatory team in the due diligence phase of
4. transactions.
5. Assisted the Managing Associate with the preparation of a shareholder’s agreement (SHA).

Provided free legal advice to members of the public at the university’s pro-bono law clinic. Responsible for case
management and legal research under minimal supervision. This involved drafting letters of advice, claim letters,
and daily liaison/ interviews with clients as well as a clear application of the Civil Procedure Rules.

It offered a real ‘hands-on’ experience throughout my 5 cases which included legal issues of housing, immigration, employment contracts, data protection, and false misrepresentation.

I was able to close five successful claims and provide an advisory role to a further seven clients. I was delighted to
learn that through our dedication to cases, the clinic’s caseload had also increased by 15%, and I had received the highest mark in the year for my case evaluations.

This has allowed for the development of my soft legal skills, such as written/oral communication and management, and advanced my knowledge of the advice-giving process.

Tasks included:

• Providing legal advice
• Reviewing legal documents to be sent to court and other parties for the client.
• Interviewing Clients and Client Meetings
• Regular correspondance with Clients
• GDPR and Confidentiality checks
• Court applications
• Attending Court as Legal Support

Actively shadowed a Pupil in Bournemouth County Court in civil, litigation and family law matters; studied civil and family briefs; tasked with drafting an opinion in response to an amended particular claims form; categorised witness statements and prepared bundles for counsel; and aided the presentation of evidence in several meetings between barristers and their clients.

Two - year commitment to researching and collating information on human rights violations in order to influence future policy submissions. As part of our project (Assisting Litigation on Libya), I collaborated with the Lawyers for Justice in Libya in order to prepare background research and analyse how the indirect and direct treatment of certain groups may be evidence of systematic violations of social, economic and cultural rights. In particular, our focus was on Amazigh, Tebu, Tawerghan and Tuaregs, and how the people’s current situation may trigger legal responsibilities under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. For example, the effects of internal displacement of peoples and discrimination after the 2012 conflict. This information was then collated into a final report and used to provide a context in the LFJL's future strategic litigation submissions to the African system. The focus of my second project over the coming year will be ‘Transgender detention’ focusing primarily on youth detention policies for individuals identifying as transgender.

Over the course of a month, I took part in self-organised work experience at Simpkins and Co - a firm specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury and employment law. This involved accumulating relevant medical records to support a medical negligence claim, drafting claim letters, and researching the development of personal injury, and medical negligence cases. Overall, this has given me a greater understanding of the practical applications of tort law and an insight into working in a professional legal environment.

Self-organized work experience in which I was able to shadow a solicitor and other client advisors in their interactions with local residents in need of free legal advice. I was then taught how to interview clients, research in the extensive database and offer advice through the online chat forum. I saw issues in debt, housing, employment and immigration.

Student Bytes is a platform for students to learn about technology law and legal tech funded by the Society for Computers and the Law (SCL). - After a competitive three-tier interview, I was selected to the Editor in Chief of the platform.
Role:
- Supporting and managing all student contributors (topic discussion, edit, and publication)
- Setting the editorial direction for the legal technology/LawTech coverage
- Organising interviews with legal professionals and writing articles for our "Industry Insiders" stream.
- Proofing work produced by student contributors
- Working with the audiovisual content lead to produce interactive content

I provide an advisory role to the editors at The Law Student Help in order to enable them to re-launch their platform.

1 of 150 selected to partake in bespoke AS careers events at London law firms and specified career development and commercial awareness coaching throughout the coming year.

The Law Review has provided me with the long-term benefit of engaging with the law as an academic pursuit. I have learnt to appreciate the stylistic and mechanical aspects of writing in order to produce concise and persuasive prose. It has been instrumental in expanding my knowledge of the law beyond the curriculum by providing me with a greater insight into topical, current events in the UK and wider world. As a member of the editorial team, we have been committed to finding innovative ways to widen the reach of the review through online platforms. Meanwhile, remaining committed to producing a high-quality publication that promotes student voice, an undervalued and beneficial resource that is often overlooked in higher education.

Through collaboration with other editors as well as faculty and student authors, I was able to successfully publish the principle issue of the Review. Additionally, I spearheaded the new online platform to make the Review more accessible (raising readership by 15%).

I am an active member of the Bristol student branch of Lawyers Without Borders. My title entails an organisational role whereby I have control over communications, bookings and media correspondence for the society. However, all members of the committee also play a key role in raising awareness of human rights controversies, contribute to research projects, fundraise for the charity and take part in our debate competitions. I played a core role in raising the club’s profile by 30%, by planning, promoting and executing a debate competition for 40 students. Overall, we have increased awareness for this new society and brought human rights law to the forefront of discussion at Bristol as part of the wider international network of Lawyers Without Borders.

Throughout my education, I have waitressed at 4* hotels with increased responsibility often managing the floor and junior staff; key holder; promoted the stock to increase profit margins; handled stock take, money and
customer transactions to provide excellent service for the restaurant, as well as additional weddings and banquets. Gained insight into the workings of a successful business, that was in the process of expanding its operations.

My manager recognised that I had an aptitude for training the junior staff members due to my high level of professionalism, yet approachable manner. As such, the new role of Young Team Leader was created for me. I enjoyed proactively engaging with new team members, building their confidence and allowing them to excel in their work. Leading this small team came naturally to me and I attribute this in part to my previous leadership experiences; Sports Leader where I delivered weekly P.E. lessons to young children and Prefect where I frequently headed council meetings to discuss student concerns.

Barmaid / Waitress in a busy pub involved effective interaction with other colleagues across all levels. I worked here throughout school and college alongside my studies for 12 - 15 hours a week, with an increase to 36 hours in the holidays. As a keen team player, I often covered shifts at short notice and time constraints taught me how best to deal with meeting deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining a high-quality service. Usually understaffed, it was essential to work efficiently and prioritise a workload. I was able to manage this commitment whilst still produce excellent grades at GCSE and A-Level.