What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee?
My first proper solo hearing in pupillage, in a messy constructive dismissal case against a major multi-national company. In spite of me, we got a result. I think like most lawyers it’s the moment you make the terrifying realisation that you are actually a lawyer and that someone trusts you enough to act like one.
What is the wisest thing anyone ever said to you (and who said it)?
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There is a time and a place for everything,” which the dean of my boarding school said (usually, it has to be said, when we were doing the wrong thing at the wrong time). Most of us wonder if we are doing the right thing at a given time or moment, and the perspective that that is not a purely binary question in that moment is worth remembering!