About

As a bilingual lawyer with a Joint Honours Law and French degree, I possess a unique blend of legal knowledge and language proficiency, allowing me to effectively serve clients in both English and French-speaking jurisdictions. Qualified as an associate arbitrator and mediator, I have strong communication and critical thinking capacity. I aim to leverage my skills and range of experiences to effect positive societal change through law.

Skills

  • reviewing and providing legal advice
  • Legal Research and writing Skills
  • Translation of legal documents
  • Legal support
  • compliance with laws and regulations
  • law
  • Data protection
  • arbitration
  • Mediation and Mederating Research
  • commercial litigation and conveyancing
  • Criminal and Civil Litigation
  • family law
  • succession law
  • French language
    9
  • French Translation
    8

Experience

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Carried out legal research and drafted legal opinions.
  • Drafted pleadings, commercial and conveyancing contracts, agreements, and ownership documents.
  • Attend Court and prepared Trial Questions and case Briefs.

Mariam Likimani

Education
  • Civil Litigation
  • Criminal Litigation
  • Conveyancing
  • Probate Administration
  • Legal Practice Management
  • Legal Research and Writing
  • Professional Ethics
  • Commercial Transactions
  • Trial Advocacy

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • December, 2019 - December, 2019
  • Fulltime
  • Drafted commercial and conveyancing agreements of Sale.
  • Conducted legal research on various points of law including Minority Shareholder rights.
  • Drafted correspondence between the firm and their clients, providing effective client services.

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Prepared minutes of client meetings and telephone conferences with Counsel.
  • Reviewed Scott Schedules assessing witness credibility and drafted replies for Fact-Finding Hearings.
  • Drafted letters in response to opposing counsel’s inquiries regarding issues of parental contact.
  • Attended LASPO Hearing/ application under Schedule 1 of Children’s Act 1989.

Mariam Likimani

Education
  • Business Law and Practice
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Real Estate
  • Advocacy
  • Commercial Law and Practice
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Employment Law and Practice

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Attended interviews with refugees and asylum seekers.
  • Prepared case briefs, prior to attending hearings.
  • Carried out legal research into EU immigration law.
  • Collaborated with judges in drafting judicial decisions in French.

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Attended weekly monitoring and evaluation meetings and kept minutes of the proceedings.
  • Drafted letters to clients and internal memoranda updating counsels on the status of their cases.

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Produced educational resources about sexual violence laws and the survivor support techniques.
  • Joined workshops where advocates analysed the medical, legal and social aspects of abortion.
  • Prepared documents on the status of abortion in Kenya.

Mariam Likimani

Education
  • As part of my 4-year degree, I spent a year studying at the Lyon University Jean Moulin 3 studying French Law and language.

Mariam Likimani

Work experience
  • Facilitated the launch of a mobile cyber education programme for children from Mombasa slums with no access to formal education.
  • Led a team of volunteers in providing basic literacy, numeracy and computer skills.

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