Experience

MAURICE PHILLIPS | WISENBERG

• South Africa
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Practice and Office Manager

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  I have in excess of 20 years’ experience within the South African legal environment. Currently I am in the roll of Practice and Office Manager to a medium size law firm with 30 staff. I am very much a people person and enjoy working with and assisting people in my various functions. These functions include: Human Resources FICA Administrator First line IT support BEE reports Annual Training and Workplace Skills Plans Office Liaison to various legal bodies and third party suppliers Show less



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• Australia
• Travel Arrangements

• Personal Assistant to Senior Counsel at the CapeBar

  • Mar 2020 - Aug 2022

  Legal PA to two Senior Counsel at the Cape Bar. Duties included general legal secretarial document creation, management of practices, time recordal, invoicing, following up on payments and maintaining books and records. Preparation of initial VAT submissions every other month for submission to accountants. Transcription of various types of meetings and legal hearings via voice or Zoom Video Call recordings. Personal assistant duties included management of four leased premises including collection of rental, preparation of monthly rental statements, general queries from tenants and building management. Management of one holiday home rented on an Airbnb basis. Liaising with booking agents, maintenance teams and general guest enquiries. Show less



Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

• South Africa
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate & Commercial Legal Secretary

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2020

  Senior Commercial Legal PA to 2 senior directors, one junior director and 3 associates. All general legal secretarial responsibilities not limited to document creation, document formatting, time capturing and invoicing on the AJS legal accounting system. National document support when required. Senior Commercial Legal PA to 2 senior directors, one junior director and 3 associates. All general legal secretarial responsibilities not limited to document creation, document formatting, time capturing and invoicing on the AJS legal accounting system. National document support when required.



Braaishop.com

• Retail

• Business Owner

  • May 2013 - Oct 2016

  Owner of online and physical retail stores. I gained a wealth of entrepreneurial experience which included the likes of website creation and maintenance (WordPress), WooCommerce interface, Pastel accounting, digital marketing on social media, sales, sourcing of new products, ordering and maintenance of stock levels, query resolution and all round company administration. Owner of online and physical retail stores. I gained a wealth of entrepreneurial experience which included the likes of website creation and maintenance (WordPress), WooCommerce interface, Pastel accounting, digital marketing on social media, sales, sourcing of new products, ordering and maintenance of stock levels, query resolution and all round company administration.



Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc

• South Africa
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Training Officer

  • Nov 2007 - Apr 2013

  Training officer facilitating in-house training specializing in utilization of MS Office software within the legal environment. Preparing training materials, scheduling of training in Johannesburg and Cape Town branches, preparation and submission of Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Reports for SASSETA. Document support specialist assisting with creation and maintenance of in house precedent library. Creation and maintenance of in house templates and normal.dot programming. Assisting with design and roll out of various in house systems including FileSite. General back end support of various legal software platforms. Show less



White & Case LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Legal Secretary

  • Feb 2007 - Oct 2007

  General Legal Secretarial Support to Three Senior Associates General Legal Secretarial Support to Three Senior Associates



Chadbourne & Parke LLP

• Law Practice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Legal Secretary

  • Oct 2006 - Feb 2007

  Temp contract offering general legal secretarial support and assistance to wind up senior director's practice. Temp contract offering general legal secretarial support and assistance to wind up senior director's practice.

• Senior Legal Secretary

  • 1997 - 2006

  General Legal Secretarial duties to various directors including the CEO. General Legal Secretarial duties to various directors including the CEO.