Fiona Giles is a Chartered Legal Executive experienced in the delivery of professional client service and building working relationships. Has a professional working manner; an academic and commercial focus; and a desire to learn and develop new skills. Keen to progress and contribute within the firm wherever needed.
Experience
- Liaising with clients to obtain their instructions and providing them with updates on matters
- Assisting in completion of matter inception and conflict checks
- Preparing instructions to Counsel
- Reviewing evidence including technical reports and data
- Assisting with matters once proceedings are issued including correspondence with the Court and the opponent's solicitors to agree stays, directions and discontinue claims
- Negotiating extensions of statutory deadlines
- Drafting letters to clients, insurers and third parties
- Preparing Client reports outlining prospects of claim and assessing evidence held on file
- Conducting market, legal and online research for various matters
- Compiling bundles, indexing documents and assisting with disclosure
- Undertaking proof reading of documents
- Raising Client Payment Cheques
- Preparing final and interim bills
- Assisting with monthly client billing
- Using Red Flag Alert and Companies House to research various companies
- Ordering Official Copies via the Land Registry
- Registration of notices on property titles via the Land Registry
- Preparing Schedule of Loss
- Preparing Statements of Cost
- Reviewing draft Bill of Costs
- Conducting insolvency checks on individuals and companies
- Instructing Trace Agents to carry out residential and employment checks
- Completing file reviews and preparing a work chit detailing progression of the matter
- Preparing pre-litigation reports to assess the merits of bringing a claim
- Drafting advice to client
- Locating potential witnesses and conducting interviews
- Drafting Witness Statements
- Drafting Particulars of Claim
- Drafting Claim Forms and calculating interest on quantum
- Instructing Process Servers to affect Orders of Service
- Drafting application for an alternative method of service
- Negotiating settlement and applying settlement strategy
- Drafting Part 36 Offers
- Obtaining and registering County Court Judgments and Charging Orders
- Drafting legal news alerts and articles
- Drafting sector-specific horizon scans
- Creating and updating spreadsheets
- Diarising appointments
- Co-ordination of a large projects.
- Liaising with local counsel across various international jurisdictions
- Reviewing Leases and Land Registry documentation
- Dealing with CFA and ATE backed claims
- Managing own caseload of high value subrogated property damage claims from start to finish including fire, theft, escape of water, impact damage and subsidence.
