“Before I sack you, can you tell me why the signature isn’t in the blocks?”

When a then trainee Jason Glover stood before his firm’s senior partner, Stuart Popham of Clifford Chance, to try and mumble an excuse as to why there was no signature block on the contract for a particularly fickle player on the deal, he thought he was done for. “It was a fraction of a moment where I thought my legal career was over before it had even started. That was the worst moment of my career,” he said.