Paraskevi Tzouda

Team orientated Junior fee earner who works to increase understanding and proficiencies in all areas of legal practice. Communicates with empathy and compassion while consistently exhibiting a professional work ethic.

Logical and resourceful who effectively anticipates and evaluates legal issues to resolve cases.

Detail-orientated with a demonstrated commitment to excellence and ethical processing .

Excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience includes Sociology, Finance and Legal.

8th October 2018:

• Was selected to attend a careers dinner with representatives from Norton Rose Fulbright. Had the opportunity to make questions about vacation scheme applications, and training contracts.

March 2018-March 2019:

• Editor in Chief at Ebor Lex, the official journal of Law Society at the University of York.

Responsible of editing and managing everything that is going to be published in the journal.
Leading a team of 10 people (general editors, content editors, creative editor). Already made some key changes on the website of the journal (i.e. established a column through which law students can submit their queries and these will be answered by law firms directly).

• Events Manager of the Greek and Cypriot Society at the University of York.

Fully responsible of organizing the events of the society (e.g. dinners). Responsible of designing the marketing tools for each event. Helping promoting the events.

• Treasurer of the York Think Tank Society at the University of York

Fully responsible of managing the finances of the society. Responsible of researching interesting speakers for the Policy Labs of the Society.

• Volunteer Coordinator for OpenMinds

OpenMinds is a student-led intervention providing mental health education to school students by training University students through courses with professionals to deliver workshops in local schools. Fully responsible of ensuring that all volunteers going into schools and have the correct safeguarding. Responsible of allocating volunteers to school sessions and make sure everyone gets the opportunity to take part in the delivery of the workshops. Management of all this requires great organisational skills and Excel skills due to the vast number of volunteers.

September 2018:

• Social Media Manager of the Women Breaking Barriers Society.

Computer Proficiency. Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets. Coordinated weekly project team meetings and drafted agendas to increase meeting efficiency. Reviewed and updated Society's correspondence files and scheduling database.

• Academic Referee: Dr Laurence Etherington, Senior Lecturer, University of York.

+44 (0)1904 32 5804, laurence.etherington@york.ac.uk.

• Miss Vaia Mitala: Attorney at Law, Athens, Greece.

+30 2103803315, mitalavagia@gmail.com

• Academic Referee :Mr Martin Regan, Associate Lecturer/Problem-based Learning Tutor, University of York, 

+44 (0) 1904 32 5802, martin.regan@york.ac.uk.

• IT Skills

Microsoft Office, WestLaw, LexisNexis.

• Languages 

Greek(Native), French(Fluent-Sorbonne C2), English(Fluent-Michigan Proficiency, IELTS) ,
Russian (starter learner), Spanish(starter learner).