MMAMOLOKO AURILIA MALEMA
Polokwane
Summary
Dynamic and motivated newly admitted Attorney with experience in legal practice, lecturing and legal advisory work. Possesses a strong foundation in civil and criminal litigation, contract negotiation, and legal research. Skilled in drafting high-quality legal documents, providing strategic counsel on complex legal matters, and representing clients in court. Demonstrates the ability to manage matters from inception to resolution, negotiate effective settlements, and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks. Experienced in working within academic and professional environments, with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly while upholding the highest ethical and professional standards.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Attorney/Legal Advisor
Volleyball South Africa (VSA) Committee
12.2023 - Current
- Providing comprehensive legal advice and guidance to the organisation on governance, compliance, constitutional interpretation, and regulatory matters, ensuring alignment with applicable laws, policies, and best practices.
- Drafting, reviewing, finalising, and amending constitutions, policies, regulations, and operational rules, ensuring legal soundness, clarity, and consistency with national and international governance frameworks.
- Managing and conducting disciplinary processes and hearings, including drafting charge sheets, advising disciplinary panels, ensuring procedural fairness, and guiding outcomes in line with constitutional and policy requirements.
- Overseeing and attending to all legal matters of the organization, including dispute resolution, contractual reviews, risk mitigation, statutory compliance, and providing ongoing legal support to executive committees and stakeholders.
Assistant Officer
UFS Law Clinic
08.2023 - 10.2023
- Researched, interpreted, and advised clients and students regarding compliance with laws and regulations.
- Wrote instructions for final year law students on how to interpret and implement new guidelines of the Law Clinic.
- Supervise the work of students, provide advice on drafting skills and help with learning problems.
- Seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design and obtaining and analysing feedback.
- Develop own teaching materials, methods and approaches taking into account established or agreed practices where necessary.
- Set and mark assignments and set practical questions as well as assessing the work and progress of students by reference to defined criteria and provide constructive feedback to students.
- Plan own day-to-day activity within the framework of the agreed programme.
- Appreciate the needs of individual students and their circumstances. Use initiative and interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive issues concerning students and provide support
- Share responsibility in deciding how to deliver modules and assess students.
- Verified and authenticated validity and admissibility of evidence and presented integrity for court hearings.
Candidate Attorney
UFS Law Clinic
08.2021 - 07.2023
- Maintaining client confidentiality and adhering to professional ethics, as well as ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards.
- Working together with other legal professionals and clients to ensure efficient teamwork and the successful resolution of legal challenges.
- Consult with clients, prepare pleadings, notices and make appearances in court.
- Conduct legal research and draft legal opinions.
- Taking care of day-to-day file management.
- Strategising on how to resolve the clients’ cases in a favourable and cost-effective manner.
- Communicating with clients to understand their legal concerns and needs to help provide them with essential pieces of advice.
- Enlightening clients about legal options and making them know the possible outcomes or threats.
- Monitor legal risk in documentation and giving guidance on the acceptable assumption of risk.
- Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for natural and juristic persons.
- Conduct legal research and gather evidence.
- Ensure that appropriate approvals are in place before documents are executed.
- Draft, review and manage pleadings, applications, summons, wills, letters, settlements and contracts.
- Manage regulatory and compliance-related services.
- Offer legal representation to clients in court proceedings on civil or criminal matters.
- Manage and oversee final year Bachelor of Law students' work. Further, assessing and marking the work produced.
- Student supervision and guest lecturing in final year LLB classrooms.
- For a six-month period had a rotation in the student discipline department, wherein I was entrusted with receiving, examining, compiling evidence, laying charges, and preparing disciplinary hearing bundles for complaints received by the department.
- Participate in disciplinary activities, such as serving on a panel to assist the chairperson in reaching a decision.
- Provided support in employee relations, including drafting and issuing disciplinary notices, preparing for disciplinary hearings, and observing disciplinary proceedings, with exposure to labour relations procedures and workplace compliance.
- In addition, had to report to the University of the Free State Centre for Human Rights, ad was tasked with conducting legal research for advocates, legal opinions, and drafting legal.
Education
Master of Law With Specialisation in Labour Law - Labour Law
University of the Free State
Free State Engaged Leadership Programme, Entry Level - Human Resources Management
University of the Free State
Free State 07.2023
Bachelor of Law, LLB - Law
University of Limpopo
Limpopo 02.2021
National Senior Certificate, grade 12 -
Nthuba High School
Limpopo 01.2015
Skills
- Effective communication
- Leadership expertise
- Integrity and ethics
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Composure in high-pressure situations
- Legal research and drafting, and Court Procedures
- Legal compliance and Contract review
LANGUAGES
Northern Sotho
English
Southern Sotho
INTERESTS
Reading, Preaching, Playing volleyball, Mentorship
OTHER SKILLS
- Team building:
- University of Limpopo Volleyball captain in 2019 and vice-captain in 2020
- Capricorn District volleyball vice-captain in 2019
- University of the Free State Volleyball captain 2022 - present
- Free State Giants (Free State Province) captain 2022
- Panthers Volleyball Club captain
- Leadership
- University of Limpopo Volleyball Disciplinarian in 2018
- Back to God Fire Revival Ministries youth committee
- Teaching
- Nthuba High School teaching fellow classmates in 2014 – 2015
- Preaching
- Back to God Fire Revival Ministries youth preacher 2014 – present
- New Covenant Christian Fellowship (NCCF) preacher 2016 - 2020
References
- Christopher, Rawson, Supervising Attorney, RawsonCM@ufs.ac.za, 051 401 9969, UFS Law Clinic
- Ntokozo, Ntseto, Supervising Attorney, NtsetoN@ufs.ac.za, 051 401 9541, UFS Law Clinic
- Antonie, Mokoena, President of VSA, anthonymokoena77@gmail.com, 083 347 5048, Volleyball South Africa (VSA)
Timeline
Attorney/Legal Advisor
Volleyball South Africa (VSA) Committee
12.2023 - Current
Assistant Officer
UFS Law Clinic
08.2023 - 10.2023
Candidate Attorney
UFS Law Clinic
08.2021 - 07.2023
Master of Law With Specialisation in Labour Law - Labour Law
University of the Free State
Engaged Leadership Programme, Entry Level - Human Resources Management
University of the Free State
Bachelor of Law, LLB - Law
University of Limpopo
National Senior Certificate, grade 12 -
Nthuba High School