Legal Admin Assistant and Translator
Deaifis Advocates & Legal Consultants
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
Feb, 2013 till Present Deaifis Advocates & Legal Cons. UAE
Legal Assistant Consultation Dept./ Legal Translator
- Assisting consultation Dept in all administration work
- Updating clients of progress of work
- Taking notes and attending lawyers’ meetings
- Drafting minutes of meeting
- Drafting correspondences
- Translation of all legal documents from/to English/Arabic
March, 2008 till Jan, 2012 Deaifis Advocates & Legal Cons. UAE
Executive Legal Secretary to the Founding Owner and Legal Secretary for Litigation Dept./ Legal Translator
- Assisting the Founding owner in litigation matters, hearings attendance, updating clients.
- Coordinating with court representatives
- Assisting senior lawyers in the preparation of standard legal documents, including (but not limited to) contractual agreements and letters using legal templates.
- Reviewing contracts, and preparing applications and required documents for the incorporation of new companies for the group.
- Following up with the PROs of the group for finalizing the incorporation and formation of new companies and establishments for the group.
- Assisting in the follow up of any litigations and coordinating all the details with the external lawyers.
- Assisting the Legal Affairs manager in order to accomplish his job purpose.
- Translating documents to Arabic, English and French.
- Follow up new legal information and new laws issuance
- Reviewing incoming faxes and advising lawyers of relevant deadlines and notices as well as diarizing the same, and providing reminders periodically to the lawyers where necessary
- Independently liaising with external lawyers with respect to basic follow-up of legal correspondence and monitoring of relevant litigation/court deadlines and keeping senior lawyers advised of the same
- Miscellaneous administrative support to the legal department such as organizing internal/external meetings, business travel arrangements and assistance with IT matters
- Scanning documents, and archiving thereof.
- Follow up on books of the office's main library.
- Attending calls and follow up on same.
Feb. 2004- Feb. 2005 Horizons Adv. & Legal Cons UAE
Office Manager/ legalTranslator
- Assisting Attorneys in ad-hoc translation from to English/Arabic
- Updating clients on their cases' status (litigation)
- Assisting the Managing partner in all office work
- Follow up on correspondences as regards litigation and consultation Depts. And drafting response thereto.
- filing & archiving
- Assisting Attorneys in ad-hoc translation from to English/Arabic
- Translation and Simultaneous interpretation
- Minutes Writing and Translation thereof
- Filing and archiving
- Checking and following up mail (incoming and outgoing
- Editing
- Assisting foreign Office Manager in follow up on daily incoming and outgoing to clients
- Preparing letters and sending same to clients via facsimile mail or e-mail.
- Filing and archiving
- Editing and proof reading of all legal documentation (i.e Agreements, Contracts…..etc)
- Translation and Editing
- Heading the billing department and being responsible for issuance of monthly reports to clients (bills)
- Assisting managers in responding to client's queries
- Performing all secretarial work
Arabic - English translation of legal documents.
Press Editing