Experience

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  Gardner Leader LLP

  • Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

  • Assistant : Real Estate

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

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  DEXTER MONTAGUE LLP

  • Reading, England, United Kingdom

  • PA/Legal secretary

    • Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
    • Reading, England, United Kingdom

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  Field Seymour Parkes Solicitors

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • PA - Commercial Property

    • Feb 2000 - Aug 2020
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Working in a large Commercial Property Team. Undertaking the role of PA carrying out clerical and secretarial duties and assistance to fee earners/solicitors/Partners and Consultants within the Team, liaison with clients and their advisers, production of correspondence and documents in accordance with house style and organisation of fee earners through operation of diary and management systems. Undertaking the role of “para-legal” by undertaking fee earning work supervised by a Partner in the Team

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  Shoosmiths & Harrison

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • PA/Legal Secretary

    • Sep 1996 - Dec 1999
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Working in the Commercial Property Team for two Partners, mostly audio typing but also diary duties, telephone liaison with clients and general office duties including filing, photocopying and file creation and archiving

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  Humphrey & Mohmood

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Legal Secretary

    • Feb 1996 - Sep 1996
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Working for both partners, undertaking audio typing, post-contract work and also reception duties. A short-term position to a brand new firm – involved in set up procedures and establishing protocols

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  Taylors

  • Caversham, Reading

  • Legal Secretary

    • Nov 1994 - Feb 1996
    • Caversham, Reading

    Dealing with all residential conveyancing matters including providing quotations, generation of own correspondence, running the sales and purchases alone and undertaking exchange of contracts, completion and all post-contract work

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  Brain & Brain, Solicitors

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Legal Secretary

    • Jul 1984 - Nov 1994
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Working for a senior property Partner, firstly as an audio typist, progressed to become her personal assistant. Then, a change in position and became the firm’s Word Processing Co-ordinator/Office administrator involving the creation of a client database, liaison with the IT programmer in relation to probate and conveyancing software, ordering equipment and consumables. Returning to client work and becoming post-contract assistant to a senior Legal Executive and a Solicitor, including • post-contract work (billing, drafting, undertaking completions, registration and file closure)• Estate Development (setting up plot sales for a large nationwide builder) • Providing all residential conveyancing quotes • Property Division Administrator (dealing with all personnel matters for the division) and • Client Care Manager (monitoring and collection of all outstanding debts, supervision of billing and payments, monitoring of WIP and liaison with Divisional Head)