Hilary S. Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London

A temporary role supporting the service while the team were short staffed. My main responsibilities were:Answering business and legal research enquiries using a wide variety of databases such as D&B Hoovers, Debt Expert, Debtwire, IJ Global, iLaw, Lexis Library and PSL, Lexology, Mergermarket, Newsedge, Orbis, Perfect Debt, Practical Law, Preqin and.

• February 2022
• Covered the role of Librarian at Blackstone Chambers while the Librarian was doing jury service. This included online research, collection management and visiting the Inn Libraries to gather information. It gave me a.
• Statutory Updater at Thomson Reuters on an ongoing freelance basis maintaining statutory materials in loose-leaf and book titles. This requires an excellent attention to detail and a good knowledge of legislation.
• Loose-leaf filing via Woodlands Library Service Ltd.

London, England, United Kingdom

• At Shell I worked in one of the largest and most complex global in-house legal functions comprising 1200 staff located across more than 40 countries. I was responsible for co-ordinating information services to over 800.
• Organised six global law firms to provide a Global Information Enquiry Service to Shell’s lawyers.
• Worked closely with Shell Ethics and Compliance Office to provide specialised information services to lawyers and non-lawyers for Data Privacy, Anti-bribery and Corruption, Sanctions and Trade Controls.
• Collaborated with an offshore team to create a streamlined Join Move Leave experience for Shell Legal. As part of this I introduced an induction presentation for all new joiners explaining knowledge management and the.
• Teamed up with panel law firms to create an External Training and Events Calendar to help Shell lawyers leverage free training and events provided by those firms.
• Delivered significant cost savings on hard copy and online resources, e.g. hard copy expenditure reduced by 90% in the UK between 2015 and 2017, negotiated a reduction in price of an online service from £92K to £50K.

London, United Kingdom

• Integreon is an outsourcing company which provided information services to law firms. 50% of my role was project managing ad hoc project requests from clients and the rest was spent conducting research.
• Conducted a comparative review of key online services.
• Carried out a review of technology for managing current awareness.
• Conducted a review of sector current awareness for a client.
• Integrated subscriptions, services and materials as a result of a client merger.
• Significantly reduced a client's hard copy collection.

London, United Kingdom

• Led a small department providing library and information services to approx. 500 lawyers.
• Setup a Sharepoint intranet portal to provide lawyers with a one-stop-shop for the key resources they needed.
• Improved the efficiency of lawyers by moving from hard copy to online for key text books.
• Reduced building overheads by downsizing the physical library by 60%.
• Reduced administration through regular reviews of procedures and rationalisation through use of technology.
• Received consistently positive feedback from lawyers on Information Services, e.g. during exit interviews the value delivered by Information Services was frequently praised.

Prince 2 Certification Project Management

Diploma Eu Law

Master Of Science (Msc), Library And Information Studies

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law, 2.2