Christine Buglass
Christine Buglass
Hello. My name is Christine Buglass and I am a conscientious, professional and self-motivated individual with extensive experience in administration and secretarial roles in the legal sector. I am highly organised, efficient and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to deal competently with clients or colleagues.
Christine Buglass - Experience
I have 30 years’ secretarial experience and for the past 13 years I was employed as a legal secretary at Bond Dickinson LLP (Law Firm) in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The main content of my work was typing, amending and formatting long legal documents, which I really enjoyed, as well as day to day administration and preparation of invoices.
Christine Buglass - Rugby Coach!
Away from work I enjoy helping to coach children to play rugby. Because I am working with children the rugby club I belong to state that you have to be CRB checked. My Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate number is 001428541056
Job Description Summary from Bond Dickinson LLP
- Full secretarial and administrative support to 5 solicitors (3 solicitors in Projects & Procurement and 2 solicitors in Property)
- Amending and formatting complex documents including track changes, cross referencing, contents page, numbering levels, etc.
- Document comparisons (DeltaView)
- Audio typing letters and documents
- Typing presentations in PowerPoint
- New client/matter file opening procedures (conflict checks, money laundering, standard file management documents, engagement letter, etc.)
- Diary management
- Preparing monthly invoices unsupervised
- Solicitors’ inbox administration and filing emails under client and matter numbers
- Use of Land Registry website to order documents, carry out searches, using Land Registry forms etc
- Use of “Searchflow” for ordering property searches
- Managing incoming phone calls
Examples of some of the larger projects on which I worked
- Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust – £300m PFI scheme to redevelopment of the RVI and Freeman Hospitals
- Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust - £300m PFI scheme to redevelop the Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals
- Newcastle City Council – PFI projects for Building Schools for the Future and their PFI Library schemes
- Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors (Lawyers in Local Government) – drafting a new standard local authority constitution
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust & Tameside General NHS Foundation Trusts – batched PFI scheme
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - £200m PFI scheme to build and equip the new Cancer Wing at St James’ Hospital
- Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive – Procurement of an operator for the Tyne & Wear Metro