Personal Assistant Legal Secretary

Phoebe Cooper

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Education and Qualifications

****-**** - ***** ********** – History (3.7 - Magna Cum Laude)

****-**** - *** *********y of Nottingham - BA American and Canadian Studies

2012-2015 - Saffron Walden Sixth Form College - 3 A Levels – Politics (B), History (A*), Classical Civilisation (A) 2 AS Levels – English Language (A), Business Studies (A)

2007-2011 - Sandbach High School - Maths, English Language and Literature, Science, Additional Science, History, Geography, Information Technology, Religious Education, Physical Education, Business Studies.

Legal Internships

Fishburns LLP

•Worked within a team of Paralegals, who showed me the basic yet demanding roles while training to be an accredited solicitor.

•Spent a day at The Royal Courts of Justice, watching over several significant tax evasion cases.

•Assisting solicitors learning more about day to day activities in which they partake. Ranging from editing minutes from court to attending meetings with potential clients.

•Attending a meeting with Fishburns partners gave me insight into how Fishburn services are tailored to ensure they meet specific customer needs.

•Carried out research on potential clients that would be suited best to Fishburns services.

Lockton Companies

Supporting and assisting paralegals, preparing client reports, documents, and case briefings to serve directly to the courts and to clients.

Shadowing a corporate lawyer allowed me to gain in depth knowledge of different specialisms within the legal field, whilst also learning the importance of providing clients with personal, high quality service so that they feel and know that the service they are receiving is of the highest quality.

Mills and Reeve LLP

•Through interacting with both Mills and Reeve clients, I gained valuable communication skills within a corporate environment.

•Shadowed a paralegal within the family law department where I interacted with clients and learnt about the process involved when formulating divorce settlements.

•I spent time sharing the companies’ values when I spent the day with the recruitment team. Furthermore, I learnt the importance of having organisational skills and presentation skills. I learnt about the interview process and what employers look for in a potential employee.

•Shadowing lawyers at Mills and Reeve allowed me to have a better understanding of the different skills needed to bring a case to court and achieve a successful outcome.

Non-Legal Work Experience

Personal Assistant to High Profile Client

Personal assistant to a high-profile client in New York City.

Organising and scheduling daily appointments, handling reservations to events and ensuring that her schedule fit around her two children.

Accompanying her to social and personal events.

Oversee the organisation of the 18th Annual Chabad of South Hampton Annual Benefit Dinner in The Hamptons New York.

Lindy Dowling Wedding and Event Planners

Shadowed a senior event planner within the company and worked closely with couples to ensure that wedding goals were met, deadlines were met and ensured that complaints were handled and solved in a timely manner.

Serving as a liaison between the clients, event location and resources such as catering, concierge and guest services and other departments.

Responding to emails and managing a significant volume of files that were sent on each individual event including all relevant details of whichever ceremony we would be working on that week.

Skills

•Excellent knowledge of both Microsoft Office and Outlook

•Strong transcribing and written communication skills

•Excellent reading and writing skills with the ability to condense complex works into concise documents.

Achievement and Responsibility

•Gained Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award.

•Represented English Schools in Cross Country, Swimming (Captain) and Athletics.

•President and Social Chair of The University of Nottingham American Society

•University of Nottingham Crew Team - Henley Regatta Participant

•Zeta Tau Alpha Alumnae Chair

•Phi Alpha Theta Honours Society

•Awarded Deans List; Fall’17, Spring’18, Fall’18, Spring’19, Fall’19, Spring’20.

•Helped organise ‘Lockton Gets in Gear’, a charity event which raised £60,000 for Great Ormand Street Children Hospital.

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