A member of the grad rec team at Trowers & Hamlins has apparently told an LPC graduate not to bother applying for a training contract, before admitting that she was drunk.

The hapless grad telephoned various firms before Christmas to ask whether they had training contracts available. When he got through to Trowers he says he was told that the Graduate Manager was on holiday but that his assistant could help. The grad says "I had the strangest conversation where she told me it probably wasn't worth me applying (apparently AAB and a 2:1 from Durham doesn't cut it) and the call ended with her saying 'sorry, I'm a bit drunk'".

    A Trowers grad rec manager relaxing at work yesterday

Trowers was confirmed last week as the recipient of 2015's Golden Turd, with one partner wondering whether the reason the windows don't open is "to stop one ending it all". But are things really so bad that the workforce can only get by if they're half cut?

A spokeswoman for the firm declined to comment.
 
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Comments

Anonymous 06 February 15 09:32

so the LPC graduate phoned them "to ask whether they had any TCs available", rather than check the website and follow the application process that is specifically set up.

"to ask whether they had any" - they're not flowers off a market stall.

Anonymous 06 February 15 10:27

It's a shame that budding lawyers have to resort to this sort of thing when they find out they aren't good enough to join a firm. I rather enjoy Trowers' refreshing sense of humour and refusal to take firm of the year questions seriously. I don't believe the above story for one second however.

Anonymous 06 February 15 13:42

What an absolute pile of ..... First of all, it isn't the grad manager in drunken shocker, is it, RoF, it's allegedly someone else. And you've trashed someone's reputation on the say so of someone who is too daft to work out how to use a computer or any of the approximately seven billion websites dedicated to helping trainee solicitors. Hmmmm. Sour grapes maybe??

Anonymous 06 February 15 15:10

Sure, the grad may have been a halfwit, and he should have applied online rather than calling up.

But how can a grad rec manager at an international law firm deal with an enquiry when she's pissed? And admit to it? Can you imagine this happening at a proper firm?

Sour grapes my arse. Trowers is a joke, the grad is well out of it.