Experience

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  Too many to mention!

  Apr 1981 - May 1992

  Working in jobs since the age of 11

  Lived experience of free school meals and being the first to go to university Pubs, clubs, newspaper delivery, tour guide, kibbutz volunteer, waitress, cleaner you name I did it to get through!

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  Joy merriam solicitors

  Jul 1992 - Dec 1992

  Solicitors clerk

  Attendance at court to assist barristers during criminal trials in the Old Bailey and criminal courts.

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  Newham council

  Oct 1992 - Jan 1993

  Housing benefits assistant
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  Metropolitan police

  Jan 1993 - Aug 1994

  Probationary police officer

  General policing duties attached to Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park (part of the Royal Parks Constabulary) since subsumed by the Met.I couldn’t do it ! I needed a job after graduation, and couldn’t get anything law related. I suffered a lot of discrimination and harassment and would never trust the police wholeheartedly again.

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  United european airlines limited

  Feb 1994 - Feb 1995

  International flight attendant
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  Madu kasturi limited

  Mar 1994 - Mar 1996

  Pa to the md

  PA to managing director of import and export company.

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  Rentals and sales estate agents

  Apr 1996 - Jan 1999

  Sales manager

  I managed the sales team of the Earlsfield branch of an independent estate agency

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  Rentals and sales estate agents

  May 1996 - Dec 1996

  Sales negotiator
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  The university of law

  Jun 1999 - Oct 2013

  Founder of the University (then College) of Law's Employment Telephone advice service, (COLETA) which provided advice and discrete casework to members of the community. The service was staffed by volunteer LPC/ BPTC students and trainee solicitors from large city law firms sent on a litigation seat with the University of Law Legal Advice Centre. The service was part of the award winning College of Law Legal Advice centre. We won lots of awards! Seats in employment, family, property Secondment for 18 months to the Mary Ward Legal Centre Managing busy pro bono office. Responsible for onboarding of clients, recruitment of volunteers, managed two administrators in a larger team of 12 solicitors. The service had a legal aid contract. Triaging clients Booking appointments Liaising with lawyers Executive function working with 5 directors of the Bloomsbury College of Law. Minute taking, administration, calendar management and organisation of administrative systems. Researching and support to Professor Dean working on the introduction of the City LPC

  • Supervising Solicitor Employment Department - Legal Advice Centre

    May 2006 - Oct 2013

  • Trainee Solicitor

    May 2003 - May 2006

  • Practice Manager

    Jan 2002 - May 2006

  • Senior Administrator Legal Advice Centre

    Jan 2001 - Dec 2001

  • Personal Assistant to the Branch Executive

    Jan 2000 - Dec 2000

  • Research Assistant to Professor Barry Dean

    Jun 1999 - Dec 1999
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  Mary ward legal centre

  Jan 2003 - Aug 2010

  I was the College of Law's first-ever trainee solicitor. I was seconded to the Mary Ward Legal Centre where I worked under the employment caseworker John Wiggins (a human encyclopaedia on employment law). I undertook cases up to hearing, representing a claimant on a complex two day TUPE matter, many case management discussions and shorter hearings. I negotiated settlement for many clients alongside my role as a Union Rep for Unite. The College of Law Legal Advice Centre was at time one the largest law clinics in the country in receipt of a grant from the Legal Services Commission to run a community outreach programme on a deprived Lambeth estate. Show less

  • Volunteer Solicitor

    Feb 2003 - Aug 2010

  • Trainee Solicitor

    Jan 2003 - Aug 2006
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  Soho parish primary

  Sept 2005 - Jul 2008

  School governor
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  University of greenwich

  Nov 2013 - Jun 2021

  Director & founder of the award winning legal advice centre principal lecturer & employability lead

  The advice centre won first prize in the 2015 Attorney General and Lawworks national awards for best new student pro bono service. We also won second prize in the same category two years later for my welfare benefits collaboration with Greenwich Council welfare rights service. Two students also won awards under my leadership. The service covered areas of social welfare law and small business, and still exists. I lectured on the LLB, teaching legal skills and crime, and ran two CLE placement courses. I held sole responsibility for law employability at Greenwich, and set up a large mentoring programme during my tenure, as well as sourcing law employability events, including speakers and insight events. Show less

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  The university of law

  Jul 2021 - May 2022

  Supervising solicitor & pro bono manager (london campuses)

  I headed up the London & Norwich campuses establishing the re-imagined ULLAC managing a large programme of pro bono activities and law employability opportunities annually. We advised on a range of matters including family and small business. I also sourced court visits, mooting opportunities and recruited quality volunteers for legal charities. I’m friendly,hardworking, always enthusiastic and reliable. I implemented an online form and positive changes to the website, & service which still exist now. Show less

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  City, university of london

  May 2022 - now

  Director & founder of the award winning city community legal advice centre

  All things pro bono and law employability