Following a bizarre competition, Clifford Chance has announced plans to issue colour-coded hoodies to its students to show which have been awarded training contracts. Still, it could have been worse as one design would have made them look like hipsters.
Nine different designs by students at Kingston University were modelled at a CC fashion show on Red Nose Day and put on the firm's grad rec facebook page. It announced that the design which won the most votes at the fashion show and most 'likes' on facebook would be "worn by our Clifford Chance lawyers of the future". Introducing the winning Off The Shelf collection:
With 356 'likes', Marjade Roniet's caste system clothing was the clear winner on facebook, with votes from mum ("I love my daughter's design") and a suspicously large contingent from Nassau in the Bahamas. It is not clear how many actual students who might secure a CC vac scheme participated, but those who didn't bother will now pay for their apathy by having to wear clothing which identifies their lack of tenure.
It also means graduate recruitment teams at other firms missed the perfect opportunity to send the number of Clifford Chance vac scheme applications plummeting, which they could have done by voting repeatedly for the design which came last, with only five 'likes':
Labouring under the misapprehension that the Magic Circle is a cereal cafe in Dalston, the designer opened the door to a world in which students at Canary Wharf wear halfmast slacks, fisherman beards and giant yellow jumpers decorated with tyre-treads. If only Linklaters had known, it could have forced its rival to dress students like rejects from Hot Chip crossed with roadkill.
While that dream has died, CC says on its facebook page that the colour-coded designs are so good they are going to be used to create "a new line of merchandise that will be available FIRM-WIDE - an unforeseen but very exciting development!!". It's not known whether hoodie banding will be determined by PQE or hours billed, but will presumably be aggresively hierarchical and top out with a plush gold velour number for Managing Partner Matthew Layton.
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Nine different designs by students at Kingston University were modelled at a CC fashion show on Red Nose Day and put on the firm's grad rec facebook page. It announced that the design which won the most votes at the fashion show and most 'likes' on facebook would be "worn by our Clifford Chance lawyers of the future". Introducing the winning Off The Shelf collection:
With 356 'likes', Marjade Roniet's caste system clothing was the clear winner on facebook, with votes from mum ("I love my daughter's design") and a suspicously large contingent from Nassau in the Bahamas. It is not clear how many actual students who might secure a CC vac scheme participated, but those who didn't bother will now pay for their apathy by having to wear clothing which identifies their lack of tenure.
It also means graduate recruitment teams at other firms missed the perfect opportunity to send the number of Clifford Chance vac scheme applications plummeting, which they could have done by voting repeatedly for the design which came last, with only five 'likes':
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Labouring under the misapprehension that the Magic Circle is a cereal cafe in Dalston, the designer opened the door to a world in which students at Canary Wharf wear halfmast slacks, fisherman beards and giant yellow jumpers decorated with tyre-treads. If only Linklaters had known, it could have forced its rival to dress students like rejects from Hot Chip crossed with roadkill.
While that dream has died, CC says on its facebook page that the colour-coded designs are so good they are going to be used to create "a new line of merchandise that will be available FIRM-WIDE - an unforeseen but very exciting development!!". It's not known whether hoodie banding will be determined by PQE or hours billed, but will presumably be aggresively hierarchical and top out with a plush gold velour number for Managing Partner Matthew Layton.
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April Fool was yesterday.
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I guess this will be deleted, as I know they patrol rof and complain as soon as anything negative is posted.
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Any feelings of pride, achievement or dare I say smugness from wearing that black "training contract offer" hoodie around campus will soon disappear when they speak to their future US firm trainee counterparts / anyone who knows what trainee life is like in the MC.
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