What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil?
Apart from wishing that I hadn’t stopped smoking? It was realising that despite having 2 law degrees and a year of Bar School how little I knew, and how fast I had to learn. I started at South Square with no knowledge of insolvency or commercial law. In my first 6 weeks, my pupil master (definitely “master”, not “supervisor” in those days) asked me to research the interaction between rule 4.90 and trust law.
I didn’t know what rule 4.90 was a rule of, let alone how it would be applied. It took me about an hour to get up the courage to ask. I learned not to be afraid to say I didn’t know what I was doing, rather than wasting time being scared to ask a question.