Карина

Karyna Putievska
Languages: English – advanced level; Ukrainian & Russian – fluent (Mother tongues);
French – beginner level
UK Address: 159 Half Moon Lane, London SE24 9JG
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Profile

I am an ambitious hard working individual seeking to develop my career. I finished my Undergraduate law degree with a distinction and I got my Masters of law with a distinction. I have lots of work experience that relate to the field of law, alongside wider administrative and business skills. I am a confident, positive, enthusiastic and sociable person. I am a good communicator and enjoy working in a team. I have strong administrative and organisational expertise, good time management and I am experienced in arranging meetings, training sessions, international conferences and social events. I know how to deal effectively with sensitive and confidential information.

Education

2024-2025 Kharkiv National Pedagogical University; MA, Philology(Foreign Languages and translation)

2022 – November 2023; The Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine; MA, Law
( UK Classification -1st)

February 2019 – March 2019; Understanding EU-Russia Relations: Foreign Policy Actors, Institutions and Policy-Making, 2 ECTS credit points (University of Tartu)

2018 – 2022; The Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine; BA, Law
( UK Classification -1st)

2007 – 2018; Specialized school №162, Kharkiv, Ukraine; 3 A level equivalent qualifications

Work experience

July 2023 – September 2025: Paralegal in different departments, London

• Document management, review and analysis.
• Organizing and maintaining documents in a paper or electronic filing system.
• Meeting with clients, attorneys, and other professionals to talk about case details.
• Helping prepare for trial by organizing exhibits and assisting with other tasks as needed.
• Preparing briefs, wills, contracts, real estate closing statements, pleadings, appeals, and other legal documents.
• Investigating facts and laws of cases and searching public records and other resources to prepare cases and determine causes of action.
• Directing and coordinating law office activity
• Legal research and preparing first draft of advice notes
• Keeping law library up-to-date by monitoring legal volumes
• Produce accurate, high quality work quickly and efficiently, using the firm's software packages and document management systems
• Providing effective and proactive communication with clients, legal staff and other support staff, organising meetings, answering the phone, taking messages, managing e-mail, etc.

October 2022- July 2023: Legal Assistant in Legal Support Services, Taylor Wessing (assisting with Project Sparkle), London

• Liaising with fee earners and collaborating with Legal Support Staff on tasks
• Registering cases in the internal Database, applying case management practices
• Assist supervisors with reporting and administration of field activities
• Maintain positive working relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Scanning, printing, copying, filing, saving, archiving documents, using Microsoft Office Package, Outlook, Docusign, PDFDocs, Adobe, Excel, iManage and other apps
• Attending meetings / conference calls and take minutes to action follow up where required

January 2022 – March 2022 : Legal Assistant (pro bono), Kharkiv Prosecutor’s Office

• Coordinate and arrange meetings with all necessary documentation and details
• Draft engagement letters / emails, factoring in risk and compliance procedures
• Providing legal consultations, based in a public prosecutor’s office
• Using technical legal IT software
• Handling with internal and external posts

Other relevant experience

Summer Vacation Scheme at Taylor Wessing, London (08.08.2022-19.08.2022)

Mini-pupillage with Jonathan Higgs QC at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), London (08.08.2022-12.08.2022)

Mini-pupillage with Catherine Dobson at Royal Court of Justice, London (06.06.2022-10.06.2022)

III Kharkiv International Legal Forum (24.09.2019-28.09.2019)

XXI All-Ukrainian scientific conference of professors, young scientists and students “Ukrainian society socio-political analysis of the present and forecast of the future”(09.12.2019-12.12.2019)

XI University scientific-practical conference of students; ”State building and local self-government in Ukraine and foreign countries”(06.12.2019- 08.12.2019)