Curriculum Vitae of Rhonda James
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Rhonda James
Date of Birth: 14 August 1984
Contact Number: +27-76-654-****
E-mail Address: adb1gk@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION:
SECONDARY EDUCATION:
O’ Level - Queen Elizabeth High School,
Harare, Zimbabwe – 2000
CERTIFICATES OBTAINED
• Law Society of South Africa - Legal
Practice Management – 2018
• Labournet – Policies, Procedures,
Rules & Regulations
• Labour Smart – Managing day to day
HR
• SARIPA Programme in Insolvency
Law and Practice: - February 2016 –
November 2016 – Result Pass with
Distinction
Current Studies:
Bachelor of Commerce in Management -
Year 1
Subjects: Business Management 1
Financial Accounting 1
Economics
Analytical Techniques
Commercial Law
Human Resources Management 1
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Vezi & De Beer Inc Pretoria - July 2015 to date
TITLE: HR & SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATOR
• To maintaining and monitoring
performance through internal
departmental reports;
General:
1. Handling of office and vehicle keys;
2. Vehicle and office insurance;
• Providing director with summary on
turnaround time and work flow;
• To arranging monthly Head of
Department meetings, collating stats;
• Taking minutes of department meetings.
• Maintaining / Monitoring and
Developing internal accounting system.
• Daily attendance registers and notifying
Director of all absentee and late coming;
• Monitoring the late coming and getting
reasons as to why late;
• Monitoring if people are leaving early and
the reasoning to why;
• Staff leave applications and personal files;
(PAYROLL / Pastel)
• Ensuring staff adhere to office rules and
regulations;
• Dealing employment agencies and sourcing
CV’s for new staff members required;
• Setting up personal files and letter of
appointments / contracts for new staff
members;
• Monitoring staff members probation period
• Ensuring new staff members are set up with
PC’s and phone’s;
• Attending to all staff queries;
• Management of admin staff;
• Issuing of verbal and written warnings;
• Office Admin i.e. attending to IT related
• Training staff in respect of programs used
by the firm
OFFICE ADMINISTRATION
Post / docex:
• Receive and sort all office post as well as
allocating the post to the respective
individual / departments;
• Receiving of security documents, ensuring
same gets captured on list, then scanning,
saving same and handing out to relevant
people;
• Ensuring all daily outgoing post is
completed and delivered to the Post Office
3. Atending to quotes for repairs when
necessary;
4. Monitoring lease agreements; (telephone
systems / Steiner, Dawn Wing, Docex)
5. Dealing with office certificate
renewals; (BEE, Law Society, Tax
clearance, professional indemnity etc.)
TITLE: PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO
DIRECTOR & DEPARTMENT ADMIN
MANAGER
• Billing: preparing full billing and costing for
clients in terms of SLA, private clients and
drafting bills of costs;
• To updating client systems, uploading
documents and preparing billing as per SLA
requirements;
• Following up overdue payments from
clients;
• Attending to rejected and escalated invoices;
• Maintaining department billing schedule;
• Drafting routine affidavits, notices
applications;
• Collating (and copying) of annexures for
affidavits and other documents;
• Maintaining court, counsel and own records
including but not limited to
• preparing counsel brief, and payment of
counsel invoices;
• Opening new files system, organization of
file management, including closing files;
• Archiving and ensuring all files are
electronically filed;
• Providing assistance to attorneys in other
departments where required.
• Managing and maintaining correspondent
work portfolio.
• Managing and maintaining Evictions
portfolio i.e drafting applications, arranging
service, ensuring matters are enrolled,
briefing counsel, billing etc.
• General admin of department including but
not limited to ensuring systems updated,
managing candidate attorneys, absenteeism
/ sick / leave.
• General office duties i.e.:
• drafting communication /correspondence
• (Dictation / copy typing)
Metro file:
1. Daily metro file requests; (List to be given
to staff members)
2. Daily Metro files received;
3. Daily metro file queries;
4. Attending to assist people locate files;
General office maintenance:
1. Ensuring office is stocked with all relevant
materials (eg. Cleaning equipment /
groceries) for the maintenance of the
office;
2. Ensuring office buildings are neat and tidy;
3. Ensuring office noise levels are kept to a
minimum
• preparing papers for meetings,
• amending and re-formatting where
necessary
• Client reporting i.e., preparing monthly
matrix report for submission.
• Diary management
• Sending faxes
• Photocopying of various documents;
• Arranging venues for consultations;
• Liaising with clients telephonically;
• Scanning of documents to dispatch with e-
mails;
• Organizing travel arrangements, bookings
and confirmation of reservation, flights,
hotels etc.
Tim Du Toit & Kie (Johannesburg)
August 2014 – June 2015 Title: Litigation Secretary Managing Motor Finance Corporation Portfolio
• Preparing Summons and Particulars of Claim
Drafting Writs/ Warrants of Execution
• Drafting Summary Judgment
Applications
• Liaising with Sheriffs, ensuring
documents are delivered to the
sheriff and following up on
returns of service;
• Preparing monthly reports to client;
• Reporting on the MFC Web
based programme.
Managing ABSA Support and
Recoveries portfolio:
• Drafting Letters of demand
• Drafting summons and putting
together of annexures;
• Obtaining judgment; o Tracing
debtors
• Liasing with client
• Preparing monthly reports to
client;
• Reporting on the ABSA web
based programme;
Drafting routine affidavits,
notices applications;
Collating (and copying) of
annexures for affidavits and
other documents;
Requisition cheques / electronic
transfers for payments of agents
/ service providers etc;
Arranging for deposit of cheques
(payments) into agent’s bank
accounts;
Arranging for services on High
Court, Magistrates Court, Master
etc;
Assisting with preparing of High
Court litigation papers as well as
paginating and indexing of such
papers;
Maintaining court, counsel and
own records;
Opening new files on litigation
computer system;
Large volumes of dictation, work
General office duties i.e.:
Sending faxes (manually /
electronically)
ADHOC:
Billing files, including preparing
full billing and costing;
Following up overdue payments
from clients;
Typing / editing of documents,
faxes, letters (dictation and copy-
typing);
Photocopying of various
documents; Arranging venues
for consultations;
Liaising with clients
telephonically;
Scanning of documents to
dispatch with e-mails;
Typing of correspondence;
Making travel arrangements i.e.
book air tickets, rented vehicles,
hotel bookings and claim
refunds
Cassim Incorporated:
July 2009 – June 2010 - Title: Litigation Secretary
• Dictaphone typing
• Attending to new instructions – opening
files on database and acknowledging receipt
of instructions from client;
• Drafting Notice of Motion and Founding
Affidavit in respect of Liquidation
Applications, Sequestration Applications
etc;
• Ensuring applications are in order, i.e.
advertising, instructing the sheriff’s
• Attending court -Indexing and pagination of
court files, filing notices
• Drafting of all documentation relating to
voluntary surrender i.e. statement of affairs,
founding affidavits, Form 9 Notice etc.
• Drafting of Summons, Notices, Pleadings,
in the Magistrate and High Court;
• Compiling of trial list;
• Diarizing and filing, managing all the files;
• Running all the SA Homeloans and
Nedbank Foreclosure matters
• Liaising with Sheriffs, ensuring documents
are delivered to the sheriff and following up
on returns of service;
• Preparing matrix reports to client;
• Liaising and briefing Advocate/ Barrister –
ensuring briefs are in order, indexed and
paginated, delivering documents requested
to Advocate.
• Liaising with clients and attending to all
client queries - requesting information,
status quo of matters.
• Drafting accounts / fee notes, debiting fees,
journal entries, making electronic payments
COMPUTER LITERACY :
Microsoft office
Legal Accounting Packages e.g.
Lexpro
Legal Suite
Ghost Practice
REFERENCE:
MRS ZAINAB TABASSO
Written Reference
E-mail: adb1gk@r.postjobfree.com
MS RONAH MOROBANE
DIRECTOR RAMBEVHA MOROBANE
ATTORNEYS PRETORIA
adb1gk@r.postjobfree.com
TEL: +27-012-***-****
MR ZAHEER CASSIM
DIRECTOR CASSIM
INCORPORATED PRETORIA
TEL: +27-012-***-****
Cell: +27-082-***-****
E-mail: adb1gk@r.postjobfree.com