Following Bar Boy's tips for advocacy, I might also suggest how to be unprofessional.
So tip #1
Be woken up be a solicitor from a good firm offering you work experience, you try and compose yourself however they ask you if they have woken you up, you inform them that you have just woken up indeed and it is reading week so its "all good", to which they reply "you better do some reading then"
"It's all good" what was I thinking!! I hope they saw the bright side... :S
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Perhaps a quick follow up e-mail to solicitors with an acknowledgement that you weren't at your best but that was because you were up to 3am reading [insert name of really tedious, but impressive, law book of choice].
Don't worry - I called my boss "dude" a while ago and all was forgotten - I think we make ourselves so self-important these days that everything we say and do is much bigger than it is!!
LL
I agree...
Reading on reading week bar boy? I don't think even I could pretend to do such a thing!!
Dear Solicitor X,
So sorry I was abrasive on the phone I was reading Archbold.
Tah Rah
Lost
...
How does it sound?
Tish Pashar to the WRETCHED Solicitor, that's what I say! Do some READING,my eye!
Dear Solicitor X,
Thank you kindly for your suggestion that I do some reading; obviously, I am endeavouring to do far MORE of this activity than you EVER did when you were in my position, since I have no intention of bieng stuck at a firm as DREARY and JOBSWORTH as yours...
OOO Minx,you RATBAG!!!
Haha Minx!
Good one, though I'm afraid I cannot afford to be so cold to such a good firm.
If I do find out that they are employing solicitor inadequates I may leave the work placement in protest.
Minx, I know what you mean. I was horrified to discover the other day that barristers have to fill in some forms. How ghastly. I mean, after all, what's the point in training to be a real lawyer if you then have to fill out your own forms. And, anyway, doesn't this deprive solicitors of something to do.
Fill in forms?
What is this nonsense?
Don't solicitors have so little to do anyway with their photocopying and carrying barrister's suitcases into court!
By oh my, we must not let the solicitors give us their paper work!
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