Office Assistant Litigation

RB EBRAHIM

Cell: 084-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Dear Sir

I am a paralegal with extensive legal experience of 29 years. I also completed 14 subjects towards my LLB.

I am an all rounder who has worked in mainly in litigation. I also did winding up of estates, shipping, conveyancing, commercial and labour and also debt review. Most of my years I worked in litigation.

I have also done secretarial/admin work and worked as a PA.

I worked for a barrister for 18 years until he retired from practice.

I worked for an advocate on a temporary basis for many years. I also did typing for attorneys from home.

I am a hardworker and can handle pressure. I am diligent and enjoy challenges. I am honest and patient and always believe that there is no shortcuts to work. I work to the best of my ability.

I temped for law firms in La Lucia, Umhlanga, Durban, Durban North, Morningside and Westville.

I temped for Mooney Ford Attorneys on a few occasions between the period 2011 to 2020.

I also temped for Norton Rose Fulbright on a few occasions.

I am an all rounder and can handle any tasks given to me.

I worked for Daly Morris Fuller Inc (Morris Fuller Williams) since December 2017 to October 2019. I am retrenched from the company as I was employed solely to work in the SANRAL department doing collections for e-toll. Since E-toll has been put on hold since the May 2019 elections the department has become quiet and as a result there is no work hence the retrenchment.

I would also appreciate if you could keep me on your database and should a suitable position arise to contact me on 084-***-**** or *******@*****.***

My CV follows hereunder.

Yours faithfully

RB EBRAHIM

CURRICULUM VITAE

OF

RAZIA EBRAHIM

Personal Details

SURNAME : Ebrahim

FIRST NAMES : Razia Bibi

KNOWN NAME : Razia

NATIONALITY : South African

IDENTITY NUMBER : 690**********

HOME LANGUAGE : English

OTHER LANGUAGES : Afrikaans

MARITAL STATUS : Unmarried

SPORTS & INTERESTS : Reading

Spending time with family

DRIVER’S LICENCE : Code 08

CONTACT NO : 084*******

EMAIL : *******@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS : High School

Eastbury Secondary School

Matric Exemption- 1987

Subjects

English

Afrikaans

Geography

Accountancy

Typing

Biology

Tertiary Education

Damelin College

Paralegal Studies – 2002

Completed the following subjects:

-Intro to SA Law

-Legal office practice management

-Civil litigation

-Criminal law and procedure

-Debt Collecting

-Contract law

-Wills & Estates

Unisa

LLB –Incomplete

completed the following subjects:

-Introduction to law

-Skills for law students

-Accounting for law practitioners

-Foundations of law

-Law of persons

-English for law students

-Law of succession

-Family law

-Civil procedure

-Civil procedure: court proceedings

-Criminal procedure

-Constitutional law

-Law of property

Additional Courses Completed

Swat course with SAPS

Completed B Grade Security Training and registered with PSIRA

Completed an Administration Course with The South African

Police Services and served as a reservist at Maydon Wharf

Station in Durban Harbor

Computer Skills

MS Word

Lawpac

Worldox

NAME OF COMPANY : Transnet National Ports Authority

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : August 2011 – December 2012

POSITION HELD : Security Official

DUTIES : Making permits for trucks and checking trucks have complied with the necessary requirements of Transnet

Conducting searches

Working on emails and internet

Working on passenger liners, routine checks and searches

Answering of telephones and attending to queries and solving them

Attended courses on alcohol testing

Explaining security procedures of the port

Patrolling areas

Attending to incidents (accident scenes, drowning) & calling out the necessary authorities to assist

Conducting preliminary investigations and alerting control room for backup

Directing and guiding private securities in the execution of their duties

Maintaining and implementation of security recommendations to improve security measures

Attending to parades on private securities

Working with law enforcement (police, customs & other security departments) doing joint operation in order to eradicate any problems and keeping the port safe and secure at all times

Adhering to the criminal procedure act 51 of 1977

Complying with the ISPS code

Complying with PSIRA (private security industry regulatory authority)

Complying with TOMS document for Transnet

REASON FOR LEAVING : Relocated to Durban.

NAME OF COMPANY : Mooney Ford Attorneys

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : May 2011 - May 2011

POSITION HELD : Temp Legal Secretary

DUTIES : All litigation work including documents for High Court, Magistrate's Court, agreements, divorce settlements, affidavit, answering phone, attending to queries from clients, typing accounts, working on internet and email, preparing discovery affidavits on my own.

REASON FOR LEAVING : Temporary position

NAME OF COMPANY : Cox Yeats Attorneys

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : January 2009 - February 2011

POSITION HELD : Paralegal (Maritime Department)

DUTIES : Shipping Litigation high court pleadings, applications (ship arrests / ship release), including urgent applications, opinions (Liaising mainly with overseas attorneys and clients)

Also do litigation relating to high court and magistrate's court

Prepare deceased estates documents

Prepare accounts (disbursements & fee)

Type wills documents to register trust, Antenuptial contracts, leases, agreements etc.

Reporting to clients

Typing through dictation

Attending to all queries by clients and attorneys

Working on internet / email

Drafting letters and memos

Assisting with switchboard

Filing

Very often her principal goes overseas and I handled all work as per his@ instructions.

REASON FOR LEAVING : Retrenched

NAME OF COMPANY : Beesa Rating Services (Pty) Ltd (BEE Verification Agency)

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : July 2007 - December 2007

POSITION HELD : Personal Assistant / Receptionist

DUTIES : Switchboard operator

PA to five directors in Durban and two in Johannesburg

Handling and preparing all exempt micro enterprise (EME) documents without any supervision perusing them after completion by clients

Perusing all clients’ financial statements and interpreting them in order to determine which category they fall in order

To determine their bee status e.g. Exempt micro enterprise (EME), qualifying small enterprise (QSE) or a generic

Consulting with clients and explaining to them about bee and the importance of having their verification done / to be bee rated

Preparing scorecards and invoices for qualifying small enterprise (QSE)

Preparing invoices and certificates for exempt micro enterprise (EME)

Attend to purchase of stationery / consumables

Typing bee reports etc.

Draft letters & circulars to clients

Attending to appointments / flight bookings, hotel bookings & car rentals

Filing / opening of all files

General office administration

Convening of meetings

Typing minutes

Handling of all cash and petty cash

Attend to banking

Attended small business exhibition (28-30 September 2007) & advised people on bee and the importance of being bee rated

Worked on internet and email

REASON FOR LEAVING : Contract position secretary went on maternity leave

NAME OF COMPANY : Transnet Nationals Port Authority

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : May 2006 - December 2006

POSITION HELD : Admin and Office Assistant (Financial Department)

DUTIES : Typing (working on computer)

Filing

Answering phone and attending to queries

Convening of meetings

Typing minutes & documents

Attending to appointments

Attending to flight bookings

General office administration

Attending to auditing invoice for payments

REASON FOR LEAVING : Temporary position

NAME OF COMPANY : Advocate Mahomed Khan

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : October 1999 - April 2009

POSITION HELD : Temp Legal Secretary

DUTIES : Drafting applications, affidavits, arguments, heads of arguments, letters, typing memorandum, preparing fee lists

Downloading law reports from email and printing & putting them together for the advocate to documents when he is briefed

Handled all queries

Managed the office

Communicated with clients, attorneys and advocates and maintained at all times an excellent professional relationship

Filing

Typing through dictation

Attending to clients

Working on internet / email

REASON FOR LEAVING : Temporary position

NAME OF COMPANY : Attorney Hassim Seedat

Durban

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : July 1988 - February 2006

POSITION HELD : Paralegal / Conveyancing Secretary

DUTIES : Managed the entire office as employer was most of the time out of the office, attended to clients and all their queries, dealt with problems, resolved problems and giving advice to clients.

Excellent communication, planning and organizing skills, can take charge and deal with any type of situation, excellent customer/client relationship, dealt with large amounts of cash, solely in charge of all cash that came into the office and ensured that they were banked timeously.

Litigation

All Magistrates Court and High Court Pleadings, applications including urgent applications

Debt Collecting & Collections

Phoning debtors, making arrangements for payments, doing follow ups

Sending letters of demands, issuing summons, and attending to all court proceedings that follows thereafter.

Conveyancing

Registration of bonds

Transfers Estates, conventional & sectional title and other applications.

Administration of Estates

Attending to estate files from the time they are opened until the final discharge is obtained from the Master without any supervision.

Accounts

Drawing Bills of Costs for taxation for High Court and Magistrate's matters / Preparing Statement of Accounts without supervision

Preparing wills, documents to register trust, Antenuptial contracts without any supervision

Typing of leases and agreements

Consultation with clients and advising them

Typing through dictation

Attending to all queries by clients and Attorneys

Working on internet / email (Downloading law reports)

Drafting letters and memos

Trust and business audit - attend to queries etc. - Typing of balance sheet, income statements, trial balance

Put all documents

Together for audit e.g., Bank Statements and vouchers

General Office Administration:

Receptionist

Typing

Computer

Dictaphone typing

Filing

Receipting

Banking

Convening meetings/appointments

My employer was the Chairman of the M L Sultan charitable and educational trust and I attended to the following:-

Convening of meetings

Typing of minutes

Preparation of trust audit - attend to queries etc. - typing of balance sheet, income statements, trial balance etc., put all documents together for audit e.g., bank statements and vouchers, etc.

Completing vat returns for receiver of revenue

Sending letters and circulars to trustees - for meetings

Collection of rentals from tenants

Receipting

Banking

REASON FOR LEAVING : Employer retired from practice

Also assisted part-time when Mr. Seedat required help.

NAME OF COMPANY : Daly Morris Fuller Inc

Westville

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT : December 2017 to October 2019

POSITION HELD : Paralegal (employed for E-toll collections)

DUTIES : Drafting Declarations, Amendment documents, all pleadings, letters, emails. Working on ghostpractice for accounts.

Handled all queries regarding e-toll. Dealt with debtors arranging payment plans.

Communicated with clients giving reports/feedbacks

Handled all telephone queries from debtors.

Perusing spreadsheets from e-toll pertaining to debtors and analysing them.

Working on internet / email

Also assisted with switchboard duties

Also assisted a Director with tender documents and collating them, making copies, preparing index etc

REASON FOR LEAVING : Retrenched as E-toll has been put on hold since the May 2019 elections and there is no work in that department.

TEMP ASSIGNMENTS:

Temp Secretary for Advocate Kessie Naidu and his group and various other Attorneys) (Advocate Kessie Naidu was the Counsel for President of South Africa Mr. Jacob Zuma)

-two weeks in February 2007

Temp Secretary for Garlicke and Bousfield from December 2008 to April 2009 (as and when called to work). Employed in their Commercial/Litigation Department, preparing agreements, leases, shareholding documents, sureties)

Temp Secretary for Berkowitz Wartski & Cohen Attorneys – June 2009

Also worked in private capacity at home for attorneys preparing documents for them, relating to litigation matters and estate matters (had our own personal arrangement).

2006 to 2009, 2012 to 2013

In August 2013 I temped for Aspen Pharmacare. Did dictaphone typing of letters, emails, agreements and track changes to agreements.

In July 2014 I temped for Preston-Whyte & Associates in Durban North. Attended to all dictaphone typing mainly litigation, emails, answering phone.

In August 2014 I temped for Taylor & Finlay in Durban North. Attended to all dictaphone typing mainly litigation, emails, answering phone, attending to queries. Worked completely independently as the attorney was on leave.

In September 2014 I temped again for Preston-Whyte & Associates. Attended to all dictaphone typing mainly litigation, emails, answering phone.

Temp secretary for Norton Rose Fulbright during July 2014 and in September/October 2014. Worked in their labour department. Did dictaphone typing of letters, emails, agreements. Did track changes on a lengthy agreement and worked on powerpoint on a presentation where slides had to be inserted.

In October 2014 temped for Mooney Ford 8mainly litigation, emails, answering phone, filing.

In November 2014 temped for Tate Nolan and Knight in their litigation department. Attended to dictaphone typing, emails, answering phone.

In December 2014 to February 2015 temped for Beall Chaplin and Hathorn in their collections department. Worked independently as a paralegal. Prepared all collection documents. Attended to queries. Reported to clients telephonically and on their online system. Liaising with sheriffs,courts and debtors. Making payment arrangements with debtors. Attended to emails, answering phone, typing.

During June 2015 temped for Norton Rose Fulbright for a week in their reception area. Attended to phone calls. Attended to receiving of clients/guests. Made them comfortable. Phone the relevant attorney or his/her secretary to advise that clients had come for their appointments. Attended to booking of boardrooms. Attended to documents being sent via courier and receiving of legal documents being served.

During August and September 2015 temped for Norton Rose Fulbright in their labour department. Did dictaphone typing of letters, emails, agreements, telephone calls and making appointments. Liaising with head office in Johannesburg for making travel arrangements to see clients. Worked odd hours where I started very early and finished late, as there were clients whose employees went on strike and we had to bring urgent applications against them and their unions. Typed all documents relating to the urgent applications. Attending to clients to get urgent affidavits commissioned. Making copies, putting documents together for court together with annexures. Faxing application to unions. Preparing draft court orders and service affidavits.

In June 2016 to 30 September 2016 temped for Abbas Latib & Co in their conveyancing department. Attended to all estate, conventional and sectional title transfers. Did courses on Stordoc for ABSA and Ghostconvey. Prepared all relevant transfer documents independently in respect of the different type of transfers . In estate transfers perused Wills for special conditions in order to incorporate into the draft deeds and also perused Liquidation and distribution account. Attended to a complex where 33 units had to be transferred. Worked on the online system to make application for transfer duty receipt with SARS and rates application. Attended on clients for their signatures. Attended to all clients enquiries on email and phone regarding the status of their transfers. Attended to guarantees. Liaising with attorneys doing cancellation of bonds and attorneys registering new bonds. Preparing pro forma accounts. Ensured payments were received timeously. Diarising matters electronically. Also attended to final accounts. Liaising with agents in PMB for lodging and enquiring status of transfers. After transfers completed and title deeds received sent either to the clients or attorneys acting on behalf of the bank.

During January 2017 temped for Mooney Ford Attorneys. Attended to all dictaphone typing mainly litigation, emails, answering phone, filing.

During February 2017 temped for Mooney Ford Attorneys in their litigation department. Attended to all dictaphone typing, emails, answering phone, processing accounts.

Temped for BDE attorneys in Westville in their litigation department as a paralegal from March to July 2017. Did all High court, Magistrates court and Regional court work. Prepare pleadings. Attend to Dictaphone typing. Prioritising work in terms of its importance. Attend to phone calls, emails and filing. Also temped in their Debt Review department. Prepared all application papers. Attending to signatures by the Applicant and Consumer. Making copies and attended to have application papers issued. Attended to all queries from Respondents. Attended to queries raised via telephone and email. Attending to oppositions. Attended to queries by the Applicant. Liaising with Applicant and Respondents. When papers issued by court attended to have them served via email and preparing service affidavit. Indexing and paginating papers. Keeping track of all matters in court. Attended to queries raised by the Magistrate.

Temping for 8 advocates during September 2017. Drafting pleadings, High Court, preparing memo of fees, downloading law reports, drafting opinions, attending to switchboard and clients and attorneys.

During December 2019, January and February 2020 temped for Mooney Ford Attorneys. Attended to all dictaphone typing litigation, emails, answering phone, filing.

The Vice-Chairperson for the Body Corporate of Clearsky – 2004 and 2007

Made important decisions for the body corporate in respect of its finance, maintenance and management

Attended to problems experienced by residents and resolved them

Perusing the constitution for body corporate rules and guidelines and advising residents of their rights and recourse

Attended to general maintenance and upkeep of building

Convened meetings

Taking down minutes

Typing minutes and distributing them to trustees.

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