1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Kathryn Waldron-Hyden
30 The Lawn, College Wood, Mallow, Co. Cork Mobile:
087 761 7545
Email: k.waldron.hyden@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
June 2016 - Present BDM Boylan Solicitors, Cork - Legal Office Assistant
Responsibilities:
Working with Keyhouse Case Management System to Update Firm’s
System of Precedents and Workflows (Including the Insertion of
Codes into Precedents to Allow for Automatic Generation of Data,
Transferring the Wills and Deeds Database into Keyhouse
Strongroom, and Building and Assembling Workflow Manuals);
Research and Office Assistance for Solicitors in Conveyancing,
Employment, and Commercial (including Memo Drafting, Document
Preparation, and Filing); Hand Deliveries; Reception Cover
Jan 2016 - March 2016 Comyn Kelleher Tobin, Cork - Legal Intern
Responsibilities:
Court Attendance; Brief Building and Assembly; Signature
Witnessing; Research and Office Assistance for Solicitors in Probate,
Conveyancing, Criminal, Medical, and Family (including Memo
Drafting, Document Preparation, Filing, and Corresponding with
Courts and Other Solicitors); Working with OPSIS Case Management
System; Hand Deliveries; Reception Cover
April 2015 - Nov 2015
P.J. O’Driscoll’s Solicitors, Bandon, Co. Cork - Office Assistant
and Legal Researcher
Responsibilities:
Research and Office Assistance for Solicitors in Conveyancing,
Commercial, Criminal, and Family (including Memo Drafting,
Document Preparation and Filing); Signature Witnessing; Certifying
Copies of Documents; Reception Cover; Working with Keyhouse
Case Management System; Brief Building and Assembly; Court
Attendance
Sep 2010 - March 2011
Law Department, Phillips-Üniversität, Marburg, Germany –
Legal Assistant
2. Responsibilities:
Translation of Legal Documents from German to English; Research
and Office Assistance for Academic and Legal Staff (including
Document Preparation and Filing)
EDUCATION
2012 - 2014 LLM (Intellectual Property and E-Law)
University College Cork - 2nd Class Honours Grade 1
Core Modules: Intellectual Property & Internet Regulation; Criminology; Cybercrime;
Electronic Commerce; Information Rights Law
2008 - 2012 Bachelor Degree in Common Law & German
University College Cork - 2nd Class Honours Grade 2
Core Modules: Information Technology Law; Medical Law; Welfare Law; Language and
Interpretation (German)
ACHIEVEMENTS
2015-2016 Studied for and successfully obtained all eight FE-1 Exams, remaining
organised and focussed and employing effective time management throughout
2010-2015 Achieved 50,000+ words each November in the Annual National Novel
Writing Month Competition (NaNoWriMo), successfully managing time and
organising an effective and dedicated workflow
2005-2006 Submitted to and won a series of literary competitions (Second Prize Overall
in the National One-Act Play Competition sponsored by the Gaiety Theatre;
Second Prize Overall in the National An Post Education Award Essay
Competition; Third Prize Overall Under 18s International Listowel Writer’s
Week Competition)
OTHER INFORMATION AND INTERESTS
I enjoy expressing creativity and detail work through fiction writing and handicrafts, as
well as reading and cooking. I am currently engaged in learning Coding, Japanese, and
maintaining my German.
I like to travel when I have opportunity to do so (I have visited 12 countries so far and
have dual American-Irish citizenship), and I intend to visit as many new places as I can
in the future.
References Available on Request