Can someone please review my work experiences for the application. There is no word limit. Please be brutally honest!
1-As a client executive intern, I coordinated with the receptionist to manage front-desk operations. I scheduled appointments and assisted with clients’ concerns post-treatment. I maintained over 100 patient records in the clinic’s database and supported documentation for insurance claims.
My role also required a high degree of adaptability. For example, a wellness influencer came to the clinic, and she expressed concerns about pricing. I empathised with her and assured her I would discuss with my manager. After researching her online presence to understand her reach and potential value, I consulted with my manager. I successfully negotiated a 15 percent discount in exchange for three stories on her Instagram account of the clinic. This resulted in a favourable Google review about my customer service. I learned the value of tailoring communication to different client needs and enjoyed the client-facing nature of the internship as I interacted with clients from diverse backgrounds.
I also led the initiative to organise the clinic’s outreach stall at Alserkal Avenue. I introduced our services to potential clients and designed a raffle with a detox program as the prize. The raffle led to 20+ people visiting the stall, and the campaign directly resulted in a 5 percent increase in clinic sales for January.
2) I spent one month in the legal department at DP World. I assisted the team during the tender processes for three port concession projects. For example, I proofread a 70-page concession agreement within a two-day deadline, ensuring that critical terms such as exclusivity rights and liability caps were correctly defined. I developed an insight into construction and infrastructure regulations in the GCC region.
I also enjoyed reviewing DP World’s sponsorship agreement for the Dubai Sail Grand Prix. Since the other party drafted the contract, I scrutinised the agreement to identify any terms that deviated from DP World’s standard provisions. I flagged potentially onerous clauses, including one that imposed unusual obligations on the company. Highlighting this gave the team a valuable new angle for negotiations.
In addition, I researched the feasibility of initiating a civil debt litigation claim in Cyprus. I analysed the litigation process, timelines, recoverability, and the appeal process, and condensed my findings into a concise report for a senior partner. Finally, I kept the team’s internal sanctions list up to date by researching the latest OFAC and EU sanctions. I managed multiple assignments simultaneously, demonstrating my ability to prioritise and organise effectively under pressure.
3) I completed a two-week summer internship at a family office. I worked on a large-scale infrastructure deal that involved a public-private partnership in Africa.
My main task was to proofread the conservation agreement and flag potential legal risks for the investor. As this was a project aimed at generating carbon credits, I was interested in the financial and ESG regulations that impact this emerging field. Through this work, I proactively identified the long-term risk of increased costs if the project took longer than expected to generate profits. To address this, I researched mitigating measures, discovering the ‘step-in right clause’, which ensures lenders can intervene to reassign the project to protect their investment. I presented a PowerPoint to the legal team, summarising my findings from relevant precedents and legislation.
Additionally, I reviewed three operation and maintenance agreements, key documents in project financing deals, to ensure all parties’ information was accurately and consistently recorded. This required me to cross-check addresses, company registration numbers and directors’ information of the investor, the lenders, and the project operator.
4)-I spent two weeks as a summer intern in the Asset Finance team, working on a high-value aircraft sale and purchase agreement. My work involved reviewing the sale and purchase agreement, letters of credit, and security documents. I ensured that all client and firm details were accurately recorded, flagging inconsistencies across the documents. Additionally, I took detailed minutes of meetings between associates and helped a trainee update the conditions precedent checklist.
I also contributed to a senior partner’s article on hedge fund regulation in the UAE financial free zones. I researched UAE federal laws regarding mainland and economic free trade zones and synthesised numerical data from over 10 financial reports of companies. Moreover, I effectively absorbed large amounts of legal and numerical information from 20-page year-end reports and condensed it into a one-page summary with visual charts for the senior partner.
Furthermore, as part of a legal tech pilot, I used AI tools, like Luminance and LawGeex, to review an archive of over 20 historic aircraft purchase agreements. I extracted and analysed key standard clauses, successfully identifying minor misalignments that the team used to strengthen the risk review process for the live transaction.
5) I worked as a part-time student, two days a week, at a fintech, where I handled vendor onboarding and due diligence. I conducted due diligence on over 50 vendors using specialised platforms like World-Check and Refinitiv, assessing financial, regulatory and criminal risks. I learnt how a detailed legal review of a vendor’s risk profile is critical to partner with new vendors.
When the team encountered critical errors in our vendor contract data during migration to a new procurement software, I took personal responsibility to resolve the issue. Using my initiative, I created a centralised contract archive that tracked the status of all agreements and established a clear hierarchy of master and subordinate agreements.
Over three months, I meticulously built this archive, extracting key information like renewal terms, expirations, and the nature of each agreement from over 700 legal contracts, which strengthened my attention to detail. This involved me collaborating with the data privacy and compliance teams to obtain information about data processing agreements. This archive streamlined the contract management process and reduced contract handling time by 20 percent. My focus on efficiency and technology integration makes me eager to explore Vario at Pinsent Masons.
Would love your thoughts!
Apologies if my questions are a bit stupid; I feel a bit directionless post-university, and I don't really know what questions are best to ask for someone in my situation.
