Tori Badawey Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

• Supporting the operations team with legal and risk research and analysis.• Document, collect links and share with team latest reports on these topics for reference.• Read and summarise key points to be used in the 2023 impact report, 2024 fundraising documents, and other relevant documents.• Update the team during monthly meetings on latest statistics, as needed or relevant.• Support with donor database clean-up, including drafting letters or legal other documents.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Created, organised, and oversaw the rotas of both volunteer students and lawyers and made client referrals to the lawyers each week on Friday afternoons.• Liaising with students and lawyers and attended the training sessions for new student volunteers.• Maintained client records, managed the project email account, dealt with query issues which arose with the service (with assistance from the Supervising Solicitor)• Wrote attendance notes after each session and did any additional follow-up research.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Clinic shifts included accessing client documents through Clio, sitting in on the lawyer's meetings with clients, writing the Attendance Notes, and follow-up work (e.g., researching the relevant law and writing letters of legal advice).• Telephone shifts involved calling up clients and filling out a CIS document with them.

• Various legal research mandates and drafting of legal memoranda• Participated in case team meetings, cross-referencing of witness statements, preparation of motions and other procedures• Performed various legal research projects, drafted memoranda, organized paperwork, arranged client documents before trials, participated in client interviews, administrative duties

Khíos, Northern Aegean, Greece

• Provided legal assistance to asylum seekers in the refugee camp in Chios• Held individual sessions as well as prepared and delivered group legal information sessions to people seeking asylum, including conducting presentations and answering questions from participants.• Conducted legal research on the asylum procedure and relevant laws and regulations, as well as on the specific country of origin of potential asylum seekers and created an evidence packet to accompany them to the interview.• Assisted with the logistics of the legal information sessions, including coordinating venues, arranging forinterpretation services, and preparing materials.• Screened new clients, conducted intake interviews, gathered information about their specific cases, and assisted with the preparation of asylum applications.• Conducted background research on clients and their countries of origin, including gathering information about political, economic, and social conditions, as well as human rights abuses and other relevant issues to go into their evidence packet.• Maintained accurate and up-to-date records of client interactions, case files, and other relevant information.

Arusha, Tanzania

• Provided pro bono legal assistance to under-resourced communities and vulnerable groups in association with Projects Abroad in Arusha, Tanzania.• Conducted free legal consultations and clinics, prepared clients for court hearings, presented social justice and human rights workshops, composed legal research, helped female business owners create legal contracts, wills, and other legal documents.• Assisted local attorneys with walk-in clients, drafted legal documentation and produced research reports relating to refugee rights, domestic violence, matrimonial matters, labour law, housing matters, and human rights violation referrals

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Assisted with a Shadow Report to the United Nations on advancing the right to adequate sanitation in Alabama through the review of U.S. compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Assisted on high-profile cases, attended firm events, client meetings, and helped prepare for trials.• Fact-checked upcoming cases, organized documents for cases and worked directly with clients during depositions.

History Department’s tutor for university students.

• Hired on as a full-time intern after serving as an intern through the Judith A Herndon Fellowship• Worked closely with the Chief Justice, prepared memoranda and correspondence, conducted background research for speeches, as well as gathered, assembled and synthesized information from a wide range of sources.

• Helped reconstruct the Juvenile Justice System.• Researched, analysed, and collected data examining Juvenile Justice legislation and its implications and trackingthe recidivism trends amongst offenders released on parole in West Virginia.• Created a comprehensive 30-page comparison of the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Bill and the Senate’s version and presented my results on how to understand, analyse and apply the changes made to ensure the respect of West Virginia’s Juvenile’s basic rights to various Senate Committees and the Supreme Court Justices.

West Virginia State Senate

• Assisted in the research and drafting of new and improved legislation regarding the juvenile justice system• Drafted speeches for Senate Committee Members, proofread legislative bills, wrote log notes during floorsessions• Note-taker at various committee meetings for the Senate Clerk

Master Of Laws, International Law And Legal Studies - Human Rights, 2:1 - Upper Second Class

~ President's scholarship for outstanding academic achievement ~ Selected as Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Clinic’s Research.

Summer Programme, Public International Law And Private International Law

• Specialization course on the fundamentals of European Law; and • Specialization course on comparative law

Legal Conversion Course, Law

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Degree In Political Economy And In History And International Studies, Summa Cum Laude (First Class Degree Award)

Activities and Societies: • Phi Kappa Phi: Honor Society for the most outstanding Juniors and Seniors across all academic disciplines •.

(Formally Jean Vanier), First Class Degree Award

• Ontario Scholar: awarded to graduates who maintain an average GPA of 3.9 or greater • Royal Canadian Legion Honor Award Scholarship.