Ellie Taylor Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

George Town, Cayman Islands

Fee earner assisting with high value and complex cases in banking and financial services and funds and investment services. My experience includes assisting on broad range of commercial litigation, fund disputes, restructuring and insolvency litigation matters. My responsibilities include drafting and preparing various Court documents such as summonses and draft orders and affidavits and exhibits. I have experience of preparing hearing and trial documents, such as Court bundles, chronologies and dramatis personae. I am confident with liaising with both Court staff and opponents for the filing and service of documents and to facilitate hearing arrangements. I am confident in using the Court's e-filing system and am the first point of contact for filings across the firm. Further responsibilities include perusal of discovery and the preparation of summary and chronology notes, perusal of hearing and trial transcripts and identifying proposed corrections, managing bills and invoices of external services providers to ensure timely payment. I assist with legal research into various issues and often take control of first drafts of advice notes to clients. I also assist with legal research and the collation of materials for articles and e-alerts. I take pride in my organisational skills and maintain a high standard of document management for my assigned matters.On top of my case development responsibilities, I am also responsible for drafting work permit applications for overseas Counsel instructed for a hearing in the Cayman Courts, and am also responsible for drafting limited admission applications, and arranging hearings for the same. I have also assumed the responsibility of preparing general admission applications and arranging hearings for the admission of new attorneys to the firm and preparing applications to register articles for articled clerks.

London, United Kingdom

Fee earner assisting with high value multi track cases pleaded between £350,000 to £unlimited. My experience included a wide range of cases, dealing with maximum severity cases arising from all classes of insurance (motor, EL, PL, occupiers’ liability, contract works etc). These include a mix of severe brain injury, paralysis, amputation, polytrauma, chronic pain and functional neurological disability. My daily tasks included drafting various Court documents in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules, drafting letters of instructions to both medico-legal and non medico-legal experts across various fields, arranging experts’ appointments and then analysing and drafting client updates on the contents of the reports. I drafted Part 36 and Calderbank offers and was involved with settlement negotiations. I worked alongside the costs team to prepare costs budgets and to also negotiated cost settlements. Another aspect of my role involved requesting and reviewing medical, DWP and employment records. I was also regularly tasked with instructing external providers to carry out social media investigations and video surveillance. My work in this respect lead to a successful defence of fundamental dishonesty in a multimillion-pound claim, resulting in the claimant withdrawing her claim against our client. I was trusted with the responsibility of drafting client updates and liaising with clients to discuss strategy recommendations, as well as attending site visits with clients and experts. I had a high level of responsibility within my team at Weightmans and regularly found myself doing the same work as qualified solicitors and associates within the team, with minimal supervision. My contribution to the cases allowed me to develop good relationships with well known insurer clients. My contribution at Weightmans lead to me being awarded the Best Litigation Paralegal (UK) award and a runner-up award for Paralegal of the Year South award for two consecutive years.

London, United Kingdom

My role involved handling litigated claims which came in both via a litigant in person and via the Ministry of Justice Claims Portal for three local authorities, including the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, City of Westminster and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. I handled mostly fast track claims and gained some exposure to multi track claims. My role was centered around investigating and determining legal liability for EL/PL and RTA claims. This included personal injury and motor damage highway claims, accidents at work, social housing and property damage claims, subsidence claims and child injury claims. I also had exposure to sexual abuse claims. My role included drafting, filing and serving Court documents, requesting and analysing land registry documents, reviewing medical evidence, along with evidence for special damages and running fraud searches and using social media to help aid these investigations. In addition, I was involved in adapting team policies and procedures, re-drafting guidelines and creating new templates for reports. I developed an understanding of assessing quantum and reserving claims, using case law and JC Guidelines. I gained exposure to negotiating settlement deals, including receiving and making offers pursuant to Part 36 Civil Procedure Rules and attending joint settlement meetings.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Voluntary receptionist role at Kent Law Clinic.

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for the construction, implementation and testing of a new candidate screening system, Safe Screening, along with the training of employees using this system.I assisted with the screening process, sending contracts, chasing candidates for documents and also making contact with various people for references.I also had the responsibility for covering the Office Manager’s roles- such as booking cars, meeting rooms, answering calls and general office management roles. Daily admin jobs such as creating and updating spreadsheets, filing and organizing documents.

London, United Kingdom

1 Angel Lane, London

Two weeks experience at Nomura Investment Bank in London.Graphics Department- using software packages to edit employees pictures and company logo Media Department – shadowed the set up and the support of home and video conferencingIT Desk Top Support – shadowed the support team who install, maintain and fix users pc’s, broadened by understanding of the need of IT in the workplace Front office trading and sales overview – shadowed the team completing financial transactions for large sums of money and experienced a fast-pasted environment. Operations Department- shadowed the department who perform settlements and payments on financial transitions.

Solicitors Qualifying Examination (Sqe1), Law, Pass

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law, Upper Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Student Law Society, Critical Law Society Completed my LLB Law Degree with a 2:1.

A Level

Activities and Societies: Prefect Religious Education - B Information Technology - B English Literature - C Extended Project.

Gcse

Activities and Societies: Prom Organisation Committee, Charity Fundraising Information Technology - Distinction x2 Religious Education.

Solictors Qualifying Examination (Sqe2)