A legal awards dinner was greatly improved last week as a trainee vomited over other guests.

The trainee, who is from Stephenson Harwood, was attending the Law Society Excellence Awards, a "glittering" annual bash held at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. Sources report that as the glittering trophies were handed out, the trainee became so drunk that she was sick on three associates, and an ambulance had to be called.

    It was the quickest way to escape

RollOnFriday will not be naming the trainee, on the basis that everyone's been there once, albeit not normally in front of hundreds of lawyers and all over several of them. A spokeswoman for the firm said, "Our trainee is understandably extremely embarrassed and regrets drinking too much. She's very grateful to her colleagues for being so forgiving". Specifially, that's the colleagues who were hit with a geyser of goat's cheese tart, lamb shank and crème brûlée.

"We spend considerable time teaching our trainees the essentials of law and wider business skills", added the spokeswoman, desperately hoping to move onto safer territory, "but clearly we need to emphasise more the skill of knowing when you've had one too many glasses of bubbly. It’s a lesson many of us learned the hard way!". Stephenson Harwood did not win any awards at the event. 
 
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Comments

Anonymous 30 October 15 12:07

I think the problem with SH's spokeswoman's comments is that most of us learn the hard way at Uni... unless the individual in questions was tee-total and only driven to drink by life as a trainee, one would assume she has had similar problems before at not actually learnt anything...

Anonymous 30 October 15 15:01

Well done Stephenson Harwood for a sensible response. I hope they carry that into the way they actually treat her too.

Anonymous 30 October 15 18:02

Is "trainee has few drinks & pukes" really news now? If she's reading, commiserations but take comfort in the fact that if someone claims they've never had a similarly awful moment, they are either lying or dull as fvck.

Back when I was a trainee, one of our number showed up (unnamed) on national news having sparked a massive search and rescue mission by leaving his clothes on a south coast beach late one night. In fact, he'd gone for a drunken dip and staggered home stark naked when he lost sight of his kit.

Roll On Friday 31 October 15 07:06

We must give SH credit for being so reasonable over this (and RoF for not naming the trainee).

Anonymous 03 November 15 15:23

I'm reminded of the story of the Eversheds trainees who were on a training course and decided to get naked and run round the hotel. Very funny.

For the avoidance of doubt I have never been employed by the Shed.