Richard Baruch

Experience

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  Johan Kotze Attorneys

  Apr 2010 - Nov 2012

  Candidate Attorney / Attorney
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  RW Baruch Attorneys

  Nov 2012 - Jan 2016

  Consultant Attorney

  Assisted other law firms, including CN Sweetnam, with litigation matters with a particular interest in commercial litigation, personal injury cases, employment disputes and criminal matters. The focus was to consult with clients and attend to matters that firms did not have the knowledge or experience to pursue without additional support.

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  CN Sweetnam Attorneys

  Feb 2014 - Aug 2016

  Attorney

  Litigation with a focus on public liability and personal injury claims, which involved coordination with various people across multiple jurisdictions and countries whilst drafting, consulting, attending to scene inspections and instructing experts. There was a vast amount of other work including commercial, employment and private law matters which I handled exclusively.Highlights from this role include:• Managed large High Court litigation matters where liability rested with the Road Accident Fund, the State and Insurers for pecuniary damages resulting from negligence• Worked both independently and with a team, drafting documents, collating legal correspondence and attending to trials• Brought in additional revenue by attending to various legal matters including: employment law, contractual disputes, evictions, criminal and family law• Ensured matters were feasible prior to taking instructions by preparing and drafting feasibility opinions on the strength of various matters• The types of claims consisted of road traffic accidents, property liability, public liability and medical negligence claims Show less

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  IUM

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2018

  Assistant Legal Manager

  As an Assistant Legal Manager, I managed a team of 8 in the pre-litigation department attending to insurance related recovery and liability claims. I developed operational information, document production training and performance monitoring documentation; as well as drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts with vendors ensuring favourable terms and preventing litigation.Highlights from the role include:• Increased the number of successful recoveries from a few a year to consistent weekly recoveries• Ensured matters were finalised within weeks rather than years through establishing and developing an efficient litigation department• Established a panel of attorney firms, managing the panel of attorneys by instructing them on litigious matters• Overhauled the existing contract negotiation process by reviewing, drafting and consideration of multiple agreements and addressing all short comings in the agreements to prevent further legal costs being incurred• Dealt directly with complaints escalated to the Ombudsman, and successfully defended the matters on behalf of the Company• Worked directly with HR on all employment contracts and labour disputes that had been referred to the bargaining council or Labour Court• Established channels of communication between the legal department and the claims, sales and underwriting departments to ensure legal was involved in all complex matters to prevent regulatory and legal issues Show less

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  RW Baruch LTD

  Feb 2019 - May 2022

  Contract Document Review Lawyer

  Working on a contract basis for a number of clients on projects under my own business; I provide document review services across insurance, IT, financial, public bodies and pharmaceutical sectors.I have project managed a number of projects, managing the team’s productivity, answering queries, building searches to identify problem areas, reporting to the client, overseeing quality control and assurance on the work produced.Example clients/projects include:Deloitte, April 2019 – July 2019 / Jan 2020 – Dec 2020• Worked with the forensics team, responsible for creating searches and requested documents • Team Lead on a number of projects, playing a key role in the quality control of team members' work• Reported into the Senior Project Managers throughout the workstream Epiq Systems, July 2019 – Dec 2019 / Jan 2021 - Present• Worked with the client on 3 projects in the pharmaceutical and financial sectors, reviewing document services for litigation, identifying GDPR, relevant and privileged documents• Conducted investigations of documents contained on the company’s database, using the Relativity platform• Coordinated the team to ensure the projects were completed within the agreed timescalesIntegreon, Feb 2019 – Mar 2019 • Reviewed documents for relevancy, privilege and redactions for litigation• Utilised Excel for large data sets and Relativity content management system for E-discovery purposes Show less

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  Elevate

  May 2022 - Aug 2023

  Commercial Attorney

  I work as a commercial attorney, my specific areas are:• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of commercial and technology contracts (e.g. outsourcing, sale of goods and services; software and hardware purchasing; SAAS and other licencing models) against established standards and negotiating acceptable alternatives;• Comparing contracts and advising of potential risks;• Updating and providing input on draft contractual playbooks and templates;• Liaising with clients and vendors on the various contracts;• Updating contract templates. Show less

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  DMH Stallard LLP

  Aug 2023 - Feb 2024

  Associate
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  Hays

  Mar 2024 - now

  Commercial Lawyer