New Committee, More Drinks

As we have now started a new year, this means that a new committee for the Suffolk and North Essex Junior Lawyers Division is now in place to represent all lawyers ranging from paralegals to those that are up to five years qualified.

The first social event for the SNEJLD involved drinks at a local bar in Suffolk. It was a great turnout as there were a lot of people there, including many faces that I had never seen before.

I was also able to catch up with people that I used to work with so I enjoyed speaking to them for a while and reminiscing about my days in conveyancing!

Not only were Solicitors in attendance, local barristers and legal recruiters also came to join us for drinks, so it was a nice variety of people and a good way to welcome in the new year with the committee for the SNEJLD.

Hopefully there will be lots of fun social events this year so that we can take time out of the office to get to know each other.

I'm hopeful that the next event will involve alcohol again.

Corporate Drafting

In the midst of my Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury experience, which includes bundles, instructions to experts, reviewing expert reports, telephone conferences and much more, the end of my week involved a trip to London.

I had to get the 7.38am train. Every time I need to go to London for work I always forget how early I need to wake up. I do not envy the commuters one bit, or feel sorry for them, it's self-inflicted!

I am now in the second stage of my Professional Skills Course so I was required to sit one of my elective subjects. This particular class was for Corporate Drafting.

The title itself is pretty self explanatory, I spent the day drafting parts of a Confidentiality Agreement and Option Agreement with other fellow Trainees. We also had the opportunity to answer and discuss questions on how we would draft certain clauses of other corporate documents.

It doesn't sound pretty interesting, however I actually enjoyed this class. It felt good to refresh my mind on an are of law that I was training in a year ago. I was worried that I wouldn't remember much but I think I did ok.

My next PSC class is in March and it is in relation to Personal Injury, so I should have good knowledge on this by then.

It was good to get out of the office for the day, but for now I think I'm happy with my usual 10 minute walk to work rather than a 1.5 hour train journey.

Quiz Time!!

Each year my firm puts on a quiz for all staff members and this year the questions were based on general knowledge, food, music, and films. I'm not the best at quizzes, but I thought that I would give it a go to see if I could surprise myself!

The firm provided dinner which was absolutely lovely and there was also lots of wine, the firm drank the place so dry that they had to go out and get some more!

The quiz was fun, but there were some questions that I had no idea about, I'm blaming it on my young age and lack of life experience...

Most of the answers I knew were in the music and film categories, general knowledge, not so much! In typical lawyer fashion, there were disputes over the types of answers that could be given to some of the questions, but the question master firmly put them in their place.

After an evening of great fun, unfortunately my team came last, but at least we were in a noticeable position!

As for this week, it's been very busy and I've been given a wide variety of tasks to carry out which has made things very interesting. I now have a long weekend by having Monday off, so it's time to relax!