ADEBIMPE FLORENCE AKINROMBI
Toronto,ON
Summary
Self motivated legal administrator with an expertise in legal drafting, clients and office support, file management and excellent communication skills. Detail-oriented in checking documents and conducting research.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Helper
York University Housing Services
05.2023 - 09.2023
- Maintained confidentiality while keeping sensitive information and work tools
- Showed courtesy and decorum to clients while responding to calls for repairs
- Developed inter-personal relationship with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
- Worked independently and as part of teams to achieve voluminous maintenance targets.
Associate/Legal Administrator
Terry Badmos & Co
11.2019 - 12.2022
- Carried out extensive research in law libraries and using online research platforms
- Demonstrated skills with basic accounting standards where fee notes, billing invoices were generated and dispatched to clients
- Drafted letters, memoranda, legal opinions and email correspondence
- Conducted clients’ interviewing sessions, collected facts and sieved out relevant facts to enable easy thoughts of next line of legal action(s)
- Managed on-going litigation files/calendar
- Typed documents, printed and made photocopies of documentary evidence and others
- Kept track of all case files, processes and dates of court cases
- Filed all court processes
- Proofread final drafts of documents
- Sorted very bulky documents and had them properly arranged in the exhibit room.
- Secured all clients documentations and files by keeping them up to date and well sorted to avoid mix ups and confusion
- Interfaced with clients and provided expert advice on legal issues
- Carefully analyzed client’s facts and provided the most appropriate dispute resolution to be adopted
- Matched supporting documents to facts thereby making it easy for the Judge to understand the case file and relevant documents.
- Maintained over 100 litigation docket and calendars, noting deadlines for responsive pleadings, motions and other important deadlines.
Legal Assistant/Client Interface Representative
LawPavilion Business Solutions Ltd
01.2015 - 10.2019
- Provided immediate and helpful answers to general inquiries raised by potential clients who needed to get more useful information about the company's services and scope of work
- Attended to client's queries and concerns (both online and In-person) on specific issues regarding company products
- Scheduled and organized meetings internally with other staff and externally with clients
- Analyzed over 500 superior courts of record cases
- Processed and understood clients' requests and ensured timely response to clients either by providing explanatory response or further directing clients to the appropriate team to attend to their concerns
- Followed up with clients to be sure that they were optimally maximizing the firm's services as well as ensuring client satisfaction at every point in time
- Offered in-house trainings to the company's clients on the use of some of the company's products and/or services
- Proofread and edited court judgments and other legal correspondence to ensure grammar and sentence structure were accurate
- Entered over 100 decided cases and manual judgments into the case system and precedent database.
Education
Master of Laws - Law
Osgoode Hall Law School
Toronto, ON12.2023
Bachelor's Degree - Law
Obafemi Awolowo University
Osun, Nigeria09.2012
Skills
- Legal Document Preparation
- Document Control Support
- Legal Research
- Customer Relationship Management
- Database Management
- Office Management
- Westlaw and LexisNexis
- Fluent in Legal Terminology
- Client Service and Support
- Exhibit Organization
- Litigation Support
- Legal Document Reviewing
Timeline
Maintenance Helper
York University Housing Services
05.2023 - 09.2023
Associate/Legal Administrator
Terry Badmos & Co
11.2019 - 12.2022
Legal Assistant/Client Interface Representative
LawPavilion Business Solutions Ltd
01.2015 - 10.2019
Master of Laws - Law
Osgoode Hall Law School
Bachelor's Degree - Law
Obafemi Awolowo University
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