Ah, I remember the LPC and the power my future employers had over me. Nothing was more scary than an email appearing in your inbox from them. Was I sacked? Had they made a mistake? Was my employment part of an elaborate practical joke that someone was just too embarrassed to admit?
Which means I did laugh heartily at the BLP article today. I can guarantee this is how they read it...
Injunctaway
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From: Anthony Lennox, Training Principal, Berwin Leighton Paisner
Sent: 19th May 2011
Dear All
As you may know, I am the partner with responsibility for trainees at BLP as well as being the firm's "Training Principal". I work closely with both the graduate recruitment and learning and development teams in overseeing your training contracts with us.
You all know bloody well I hold your future careers as lawyers in the palm of my well-manicured hand….
It has recently come to my attention that concerns have been raised about your collective behaviour in two of your LPC+ electives, namely, Acquisitions and Public Companies.
Despite this I get a phone call from CoL telling me you’ve all been f*cking about…
We have received complaints from the College of Law that a number of you have been using previous students' notes in the workshops and, worryingly, already have the answers to workshop questions that have not been distributed as yet.
Apparently, you’re all cheating b*stards….
I understand that even after being warned not to attend the workshops with these historic notes/answers and asked to complete the questions yourself, several of you have continued to use them in workshops. I am told that the problem has become so acute that one of your tutors has had to resort to banning notes from tables during these sessions.
And not only were you caught, you were stupid enough to get caught twice…
As you will appreciate, this is embarrassing feedback to receive and I am extremely disappointed that you are not participating fully in the LPC+ electives.
As you might guess, I’ve got better things to do than deal with stupid-f**king phone calls about how you’re making them look bad for not updating their questions…
The feedback from your tutors reflects badly on you as a group as well as BLP's reputation and shows an unacceptable lack of respect towards your tutors and the College of Law.
This sh*t you’re pulling reflects badly on me…
As future employees of BLP we expect you to represent us in a respectful and professional manner. I trust I will not receive anymore negative feedback from the College during the remainder of your workshops and hope that you will revise fully for your final elective exams.
so if get one more phone call about this, you’ll find out exactly why no b*stard dare calls me ‘Annie’.
Kind regards
I know where you live.
Anthony Lennox
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP