Mark Stow Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

I work as part of the document review team for a public inquiry, my duties include: Reviewing documents using the Relativity document review platform, drafting briefings detailing the evidence that has been identified during the review, participating in meetings with colleagues to discuss information that has been obtained during the review and drafting minutes of these meetings, liaising via telephone with stakeholders and members of the public, where necessary preparing and circulating notes of relevant telephone conversations and preparing bundles for hearings.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on a document review exercise using the Summation platform.

London, United Kingdom

I was part of the Regulatory Action Division which is responsible for advising on the use of the Bank of England's supervisory and enforcement powers. During my time with the team I completed training related to markets for financial services and the Bank of England's role in supervising firms that operate within those markets. My duties included: Analysing information related to ongoing investigations in order to determine its evidential value; Conducting legal and factual research; Producing internal guides and templates related to the Bank of England's enforcement work; Maintaining and organising case files related to ongoing investigations; Liaising with external stakeholders and parties who support the bank's enforcement work;Producing minutes of meetings; Legally reviewing letters sent to overseas regulators; Monitoring and recording media content related to the Bank of England's enforcement work; and Formulating and delivering training to colleagues.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on a document review exercise during which I was required to analyse documents received during disclosure to determine if they were relevant to the case and, if they were, to label them with various tags to demonstrate how they were relevant to the case. I also had to compare a case chronology with some documents in a hardcopy file and update the chronology to include any documents that were in the file which were not currently listed whilst at the same time making a list of documents that were referred to in the chronology but not included in the case file.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as part of a retail enforcement team. My duties included: Reviewing documents obtained during investigations in order to ascertain their evidential value and to obtain information relevant to our investigations, logging evidence that we received with the team responsible for maintaining the evidence management system, conducting word searches using the evidence management system in order to identify relevant documents, using internal databases to obtain relevant information about individuals and firms, producing and organising case files and attending tribunal proceedings.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as part of a case team undertaking an investigation into a potential breach of Chapter II of the Competition Act 1998. My main duties included analysing evidence that we received in order to obtain relevant information and then drafting briefings which I circulated to other members of the case team detailing my findings, assembling, indexing and managing the internal and external case files both in hard copy and on SharePoint, helping to formulate information requests to be sent to external parties and conducting factual research.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as part of a team that investigated the potential breach of licence conditions by energy suppliers. My duties included analysing audio recordings and documents provided by energy companies in order to determine their evidential value, drafting briefings detailing the evidence obtained from information that has been reviewed and raising other relevant issues that I identified, reviewing procedures put in place by energy companies that were relevant to nvestigations, contributing to case management meetings, conducting factual and legal research, briefing new paralegals who joined the team and providing administrative support to case leads.

I worked in the EU & Competition department reviewing documents to determine if they contained evidence of cartel activity.

I was employed as a temporary Incidents / Claims Assessor. I conducted road traffic accident and inquest work and was required to manage my own caseload. My duties included analysing documents to obtain relevant information to enter onto a case management system, liaising with both internal and external parties regarding open cases, drafting letters and memos, checking witness statements received from paramedics and general case management work.

I was employed as a temporary paralegal and worked as part of the team responsible for dealing with competition issues within markets for the provision of professional services. My duties included reviewing complaint letters and freedom of information requests received from MPs and members of the public, conducting relevant legal and factual research to be able to respond to them and then drafting responses, helping to formulate and draft statutory advice issued to the Ministry of Justice under the Courts and Legal Service Act 1990 and responses to consultations issued by relevant organisations, liaising with stakeholders and other sections of the OFT about work we were undertaking and considering what effect relevant changes might have on competition within markets for the provision of professional services.

I worked as part of Unum’s in-house legal team working on insurance litigation cases. My duties included interviewing members of Unum’s staff and analysing documents in order to obtain relevant information to include in case chronologies and witness statements which I then drafted.

I was employed as a temporary paralegal and was a member of various case teams involved in civil and criminal investigations conducted under the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002. My duties included analysing documents obtained during investigations to determine their evidential value, cataloguing and organising relevant documents, using Microsoft Excel to create schedules detailing relevant documents and various other administrative work.

Merit, Post Graduate Diploma In Legal Practice

Legal Practice Course, Merit (marked competent in all pervasive assessments at the first attempt). Option modules included: Commercial.

Pass, Graduate Diploma In Law

Activities and Societies: I was a member of the law school’s debating society. Modules included: The seven core modules, a long essay.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History, 2.1

Activities and Societies: During my time at the University of Leeds I co-authored and article on Nuclear development in North Korea.