Fiona is a Chartered Legal Executive specialising in commercial real estate law within the Legal Solutions Centre (LSC) in Plymouth, and has completed CQS training.
As well as team management and legal knowledge, Fiona provides supervision, quality assurance and support to paralegals on a variety of work streams and clients.
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.
