Legal training does not stop after university or law school. It is not done when the two-year training contract and professional skills course are complete either. Whether you are a newly-qualified solicitor or an equity partner, on-going training is part and parcel of the job. And some are more begrudging of this than others.
“Magic circle partners can suffer from the ‘don’t bother me’ attitude to training,” says Sophie Turner, head of training and development at Pinsent Curtis Biddle, who has also worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Norton Rose. “Some of them have an arrogance, which says, ‘unless you are a professor from a business school, you have nothing to teach me’.”
