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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Pogust Goodhead is a unique partnership between British, Brazilian and American lawyers, and leading class action law firm in the United Kingdom. Key responsibilities: High-level strategic role encompassing overall management of cases litigated in the English and Welsh courts by Pogust Goodhead from a litigation processing, costs management and business development perspective. Key Achievements:-• Design, implementation and deployment of client aggregation strategies yielding 500,000+ clients across multiple campaigns.• Refined intake process and restructured staffing across domestic litigation portfolio.• Introduced new reporting package to internal and external stakeholders. • Designed and implemented bespoke case-management system.

London, United Kingdom

Key responsibilities: conduct of complex group actions, business development, coordinating and supervising solicitors, investor relations, litigation finance, client engagement initiatives. Key Achievements:-• Development of various practice models across consumer, medical products and environmental litigations.• Operational and process design.• Assisted in the raising of 45m investment.

London, United Kingdom

Leigh Day is ranked as the No.1 firm in the field of product liability and consumer law by the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners legal directories. Key Responsibilities: managing a case load of multi-track defective product claims being pursued by way of class action, obtaining accurate information and instructions from clients, analysing the legal and practical aspects of claims, obtaining the necessary documents\evidence to provide advice on liability\quantum, identifying and instructing appropriate medico-legal experts and counsel, preparing complex schedules of loss, analysing and advising on strategy to achieve the most successful outcome for each client according to the particular circumstances of their case.Key Achievements:-• Maximising income and profitability by effective time recording and billing.• Preparing new business case and pitching to Managing Partner.

London, United Kingdom

BlackLion Law is a boutique dispute resolution practice focused on handling complex corporate, commercial and personal disputes for individuals and businesses.Key responsibilities: Managing a team of paralegals with conduct of 2000+ active banking and financial irregularity cases and 25,000 client leads at any given time. I revolutionised the firm’s claims handling process and improved the team’s efficiency and output.Key Achievements:-• Exceptional billing • Recovering client settlement awards in excess £8,000,000.00• Implementing significant operational changes• Training and effectively managing junior members of the department• Using internal CRM tool to monitor\manage work load and report to internal stakeholders

Manchester, United Kingdom

Express Solicitors is an award winning Top 200 UK law firm, which pursues a wide range of ‘no win, no fee’ personal injury claims, recovering millions of pounds each year for injured people.I managed a file count of 100+ fast-track and multi-track personal injury cases. My core competencies included drafting legal documents, drafting applications, conducting advocacy at court hearings, conducting conferences, negotiating settlement awards and providing excellent client service. Key Achievement:-• Exceeding billing target

London, United Kingdom

The clinical negligence group at Penningtons is regarded as one of the leading specialist medical negligence teams in the country. Based in the firm’s London office, I directly assisted the head of department throughout all stages of maximum severity and catastrophic injury cases.Core competences included drafting legal documents, drafting instructions to medical experts and counsel, reviewing medical records and case analysis.Key Achievements:-• Streamlining the initial client sign up process and evaluation process to reduce client churn and increase team throughput• Introduced a weekly industry report to key senior stakeholders

London, United Kingdom

Colemans-ctts LLP is a national law firm specialising in personal injury claimant work commercial litigation and conveyancing. At Colemans-ctts I worked with both consumer customers and Colemans B2B clients. Colemans-ctts business clients include brands such as RBS, Clarins, ARC insurance, Co-op Insurance and large travel organisations where Colemans-ctts provides legal services for their large customer bases. The principal objective of the position was to facilitate governance, provide assistance and execute tasks of new core business projects and report to key internal and client stakeholders. Key Achievements:-Successful implementation of 3 new business client accounts with an annual revenue of £800,000.00• Contract drafting• Operation and workflow design• Adaptation of compliance procedures in line with regulatory bodies and the firm’s own standard• Building strong client relationships based upon transparency and deliveryBusiness Development:-• Attending tender pitches for new legal services work • Supporting tender preparation • Attending legal corporate networking events resulting in strengthened existing relationships and a number of small work sourced establishedInternal Business improvement projects:-• Part of the project team to develop the firms online presence including the website, sub brands and social media• Developed a validation and reserving procedure for insurance and claims portfolio work• Strengthening internal operational process to reduce consumer aged debt

London, United Kingdom

Clinical Negligence Department - Colemans-ctts LLP - January 2010 – August 2011Conduct over clinical negligence caseload. Core competences included drafting legal documents, issuing applications, negotiating settlement awards and monitoring on-going risk. Key Achievements:-• Exceeding financial billing target• Managing the firms Clinical Negligence LSC Account• Using internal CRM tool to monitor\manage work load and report to internal and external stakeholders

Legal Practice Course

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)