Legal Assistant
CurrentAssisting the legal team in the investigation of clinical negligence and personal injury claimsAssisting the team as they prepared for Inquests to include collating bundles of evidenceAssisting the team in advising Local Health Boards LHBs in relation to the management of clinical negligence and personal injury cases to include consideration of settlement where appropriateReviewing medical records and identifying key issues arising to include drafting summaries of events in chronological orderMy achievements and Experience:Gaining knowledge in area of law, clinical negligence that I was not familiar with. Appreciate the different kind of witnesses (difficult, vulnerable etc) and accordingly the different ways of conducting witness's interviews e.g. by telephone, in person etc.Awareness of how the senior solicitors preparing and conducting their investigations and kind of questions they will ask. I was amazed by the information and knowledge that I gained by simply absorbing and listening to the solicitors conversations and discussion about their cases and how they will argue them.Going through the medical reports and drafting summaries of events in chronological order then save and file them via the staff's electronic case management system were new and very interesting experience.