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What is the job of civil engineer?

A civil engineer is responsible for the planning, design, and management of various infrastructure projects. They play a crucial role in shaping the physical environment we live in. Civil engineers are involved in the construction of buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, dams, and water supply systems.

Their job begins with surveying and assessing the feasibility of a project. They conduct detailed site investigations, analyze data, and develop engineering designs that meet safety, structural, and functional requirements. Civil engineers also collaborate with architects, urban planners, and environmental experts to ensure the project aligns with the overall vision and adheres to regulations.

During construction, civil engineers oversee the implementation, monitor progress, and address any technical challenges. They ensure that structures are built according to specifications and standards, and take measures to ensure public safety. Civil engineers are also involved in assessing environmental impacts, managing resources efficiently, and promoting sustainable practices.

In addition to project management, civil engineers may be involved in research, analysis, and the development of innovative technologies to enhance infrastructure systems. Their work contributes to improving transportation networks, providing clean water and sanitation, and creating resilient and sustainable communities.

Overall, the job of a civil engineer is diverse, combining technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and a commitment to creating functional and safe infrastructure that serves society's needs.

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“It gets lonely, sometimes just playing with the cat, says an unemployed ex-convict as he stares bleakly out his window.” Toronto Star Archives. Object name: TSPA_0009289F. Photograph by Bob Olsen.  Published originally as part of “Behind The United Appeal: The lonely and wretched,” Toronto Star. August 30, 1971. Page 26. ---- This is the second in a series of articles on the many agencies supported by the United Appeal, which begins its public appeal for funds on Sept. 27. --- By HELEN WAINMAN Star staff writer --- When United Appeal agencies begin their public information campaigns this fall, they'll all produce slick and glossy brochures that speak of patient services, rehabilitation, vocational guidance, research, treatment and education. 

There'll be graphs and charts reporting total expenses and the amount received from United Appeal, so that the public has few questions on how their voluntary dollars are spent. 

Statistics will report the hundreds aided by the service, the thousands afflicted by the disease, the millions poured into research. 

But they won't tell about the 45-year-old woman on Bathurst St.. afflicted with multiple sclerosis and so worried about what her neighbors think that she re- fuses to stop outdoors, 

Or the 32-year-old unemployed ex-convict, living in a second-floor apartment on Pembroke St. who in tears told a John Howard Society worker: "It gets lonely sometimes, just playing with my cat." 

Loneliness feared While there are few comparisons in services provided by the 13 United Appeal agencies dealing with rehabilitation and social adjustment or health services and research, there are common denominators cutting across agency lines. 

But the problems of loneliness. confusion, fear, adjustment to disease or social condition sound trite when reproduced in the professional brochures. So the agencies are left describing impersonal services even though they cope with far more. 

"It's ironic," says Mrs. Doreen Konradis, executive director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, that the most important things we do are often the hardest to relate to the public." 

Mrs. Konradis has been looking for a skilled volunteer to befriend the Bathurst St. woman. 

Desperate for social contacts, the woman is "literally dying of loneliness" Mrs. Konradis says. 

"But she won't talk to her neighbors for fear they'll think she only wants them to come in and do housework." 

As a result, the association this fall will attempt to recruit more visiting volunteers to visit multiple sclerosis patients in their homes. 

Mrs. Konradis estimates there are fewer than 20 volunteers to serve the estimated 2,000 residents of Metro Toronto who have the disease. 

And when the John Howard Society of Ontario describes its role as providing "rehabilitation ser-vice" for men who have served terms in prison, the public thinks the society's work ends when the man has been given a job, says social worker Charles Henderson. 

Social integration "You can't just say, give a guy a job and it's all over. The man may come out and all he sees is job, money, rent or food. But work alone is not going to do any thing for him. You have to talk about social integration. Who are his friends. How does he relate?" 

The society, which received. $160.215 from the United Appeal in 1970 and handled a case load last year of 1,300, is considering vocational training for ex-convicts, Henderson says.  “These people too often end up with third-rate jobs and that leads them to believe they're third-rate people. They're often jobs few people would take. What does that do to his self-image, if he believes that his mobility is going in end with the job?”

The public is mistaken if they think he's going to exonerate himself by scraping grease off a machine for the rest of his life."

Henderson and social worker David Kennedy claim former prisoners suffer most from "a tremendous amount of rejection and distrust. Many literally hate themselves. 

"The problem is with the men themselves who are convinced they're going to be shafted. When they don't get a job, and often it's for a legitimate reason. they're sure it's because of their prison records,” Henderson says. 

He recalls the findings of a large Toronto firm, which hired 13 detectives last spring to investigate staff thefts. Nine employees were fired as a result. None of the three ex-convicts working for the company was involved. 

"You can imagine how they felt when they learned the 'square johns’ were getting away with something they had never attempted." 

Low priorities Like other United Appeal agencies. the John Howard Societ  would like a more sympathetic publi, even though Henderson admits "we're probably low down on people's list of priorities." 

If there's an unspoken competition for public sympathy among the agencies, Toronto's Adult Cerebral Palsy Institute also feels it suffers from the same lack of public response. 

Operating one of two residences in Canada for adults afflicted with cerebral palsy, home administrator Douglas Seaton admits: "The public doesn't seem to realize that crippled children become crippled adults. They just don't respond in the same way." 

Complicating their work is the public's mistaken notion that since cerebral palsy is a brain disorder, which results in speech disorders. its victims must also he mentally retarded. An estimated 25 per cent, in fact, are capable of taking university courses. 

Most of United Appeal's health service agencies will concentrate on public information programs this fall. 

The most active will be launched by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada, which is urging all female relatives of males with the disease to take a simple blood test. The test, while not conclusive, can single out women likely to be carriers of Duchenne, the most prevalent - and deadly - form of the disease.

"It means that the woman's chance of having a dystrophic child is abnormally high," says executive director Frank Murphy. 

Since muscular dystrophy is fatal in 80 per cent of cases and life expectancy is only about 19 years, Murphy believes "any intelligent young woman told these risks would certainly decide not to have a child. 

"Now we believe it is more important that we prevent a dystrophic child from being born." 

Children afflicted The association estimates 10,000 to 12.000 children in Canada are afflicted with muscular dystrophy, a weakening of the voluntary muscles in the body. Since it is considered hereditary in 70 per cent of cases, preventing births is considered one way of curbing the disease. 

While the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society is also working to control disease, it faces an added problem: Combatting superstition and fad cures. 

"The whole field of quack cures, potions, vinegars and special diets that are supposed to cure arthritis is unbelievable," says information director Cecilia Long. 

The association estimates 2,000,000 work days are lost each year because of arthritis and rheumatism, resulting in an annual loss to the Canadian economy of $457 million. 

One and a half million Canadians are afflicted with arthritis. and 95,000 of these confined to bed or wheelchair. 

Early treatment As a result, programs are geared to letting the public know that "early treatment and proper diagnosis" can prevent disability. Serious disability results, the association warns, from "devastating neglect." 

The Metro Toronto division of Canadian Mental Health Association deals with the same frightening statistics. They predict that of all children born in 1968, one in six will need institutional treatment.

 The association has four mental health community divisions operating in Toronto in which lay and professional groups organize family life programs and communications seminars for youth and parents in area schools. 

The association also operates two rehabilitation programs for former mental hospital patients, a day camp on Toronto Island and summer camp at Niagara Lodge at Niagara-on-the-Lake.

[The later section dealing with muscular dsytrophy and arthritis, is really coming from an ableist and even eugenicist viewpoint - preventing women from having babies who might be carriers, preventing economic loss, etc. Most of the information about former prisoners isn’t much different fifty years later.]

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And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2019 are…

Gongs galore for industry’s top players, including firm of the year Taylor Wessing and ‘Most Admired’ chambers Blackstone

The Legal Cheek Awards 2019

The legal profession has celebrated the top rookie-rated law firms and chambers of the year in a glitzy ceremony held at the top of London’s iconic Cheesegrater skyscraper.

This year’s Legal Cheek Awards, sponsored by BARBRI International, took place on Thursday evening in Landing Forty Two of the tapering City of London tower officially known as the Leadenhall Building. Three-hundred guests from the UK’s leading corporate law firms and barristers’ chambers donned their sharpest suits and highest heels to ascend the escalators and glass-panelled lifts for the exclusive ceremony, hosted by Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge.

Before the Awards bash got underway, Sarah Hutchinson, BARBRI International managing director, presented the findings of Legal Cheek‘s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) survey, before the audience were treated to the premiere of a short film, produced exclusively for the event by the Legal Cheek team.

Can you spot the special guest playing a cameo role in this year’s Legal Cheek Awards video?

Legal Cheek student campus ambassadors presented no less than 23 gongs alongside a handful of sponsors and legal celebrities, including Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams.

Rosie Williams with the Legal Cheek campus ambassadors and vloggers Chrissie Wolfe and Eve Cornwell #squadgoals

So who won what? Read on to find out.

Best Law Firm for Training 2019: Osborne Clarke

The Osborne Clarke team pick up their gong from King’s College London’s Simran Malhi

Highly commended: Ashurst, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Mayer Brown, Norton Rose Fulbright, Pinsent Masons, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Quality of Work 2019: Shearman & Sterling

Emma Hopkins, our campus ambassador for Cambridge Uni, with Paul Gascoyne and the Shearman & Sterling team

Highly commended: Bristows, Farrer & Co, Fladgate, Foot Anstey, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Macfarlanes, Milbank, Mills & Reeve, Osborne Clarke, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Peer Support 2019: Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown’s Danielle White receives the award from Hertfordshire Uni’s Gayathiri Kanagasundaram

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Farrer & Co, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, PwC, Simmons & Simmons, Taylor Wessing, White & Case

Best Law Firm for Partner Approachability 2019: Womble Bond Dickinson

Carter Corson business psychologist Sara Duxbury presents Womble Bond Dickinson’s Joanne Smallwood with the award

Sponsored by Carter Corson, business psychologists supporting high-profile organisations, particularly professional services firms.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft, Eversheds Sutherland, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, RPC, Ropes & Gray, Shoosmiths, Squire Patton Boggs, TLT, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith

Best Law Firm for Work/Life Balance 2019: DWF

LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer with the DWF team

Sponsored by LawCare, the charity that supports and promotes mental health and wellbeing in the legal community throughout the UK and Ireland.

Highly commended: Ashfords, BLM, Blake Morgan, Browne Jacobson, Fieldfisher, Forsters, Irwin Mitchell, Mills & Reeve, Royds Withy King

Best Law Firm for Tech 2019: CMS

STEM Future Lawyers ambassador Nishant Prasad hands the CMS team their trophy

Sponsored by STEM Future Lawyers, the legal careers network for science, technology, engineering and maths students.

Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, DWF, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons

Best Law Firm for Perks 2019: Clifford Chance

Coventry student Phoebe Howard presents the award to Clifford Chance trainee Adam Hunter

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Milbank, Ropes & Gray, Skadden, White & Case

Most Impressive Law Firm Office 2019: Gowling WLG

The Gowling WLG team collecting their award from University of East Anglia student Giannis Christofi

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, Norton Rose Fulbright, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm Canteen 2019: Addleshaw Goddard

Roehampton Uni’s Aimee Peacock with the Addleshaw Goddard team

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clyde & Co, Gowling WLG, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm for Social Life 2019: Burges Salmon

Imperial student Gatsby Fitzgerald presents Burges Salmon with their award

Highly commended: Bristows, Browne Jacobson, Charles Russell Speechlys, K&L Gates, RPC, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris, Wedlake Bell

Best Law Firm for International Secondments 2019: White & Case

HBW Consulting co-founder and director John Hancock presents the prize to the White & Case team

Sponsored by HBW Consulting, a boutique agency that works as a specialist extension to your graduate recruitment team, helping law firms with media strategy, spend and analysis.

Highly commended: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Clifford Chance, Debevoise & Plimpton, Dechert, HFW, Shearman & Sterling, Skadden, Stephenson Harwood, Watson Farley & Williams

Best Law Firm for Client Secondments 2019: Squire Patton Boggs

City Uni law student Malek Arab presents Squire Patton Boggs with their gong

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith, RPC, Walker Morris, Weightmans

Most Admired Law Firm 2019: Bird & Bird

Final-year Queen Mary law student Saeed Mahmood hands a Bird & Bird rep their prize

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Slaughter and May

Legal Cheek Firm of the Year 2019: Taylor Wessing

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson with Taylor Wessing’s Lydia Block and Olivia Coppin

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith

Best Chambers for Training 2019: Hardwicke

The Hardwicke team receive their award from Coventry Uni’s Samiksha Shetty

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 5 Essex Court, 7 King’s Bench Walk, Atkin Chambers, Blackstone Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Quality of Work 2019: Littleton Chambers

Bar Squared CEO Helen Ford with Littleton Chambers

Sponsored by Bar Squared, legal tech company and developers of LEX, a leading software solution for barristers’ chambers.

Highly commended: 11KBW, 4 New Square, 5 Essex Court, Blackstone Chambers, Brick Court Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Landmark Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Colleague Supportiveness 2019: Cornerstone Barristers

Carolina Gasparoli and the Cornerstone Barristers team pick up their gong from Kingston Uni’s Maria Dvornikova

Highly commended: Devereux Chambers, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Outer Temple Chambers, St John’s Chambers

Best Chambers for Facilities 2019: Exchange Chambers

Bristol Uni’s Holly Hill presents Exchange Chambers’ Tom Handley with the trophy

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 3 Verulam Buildings, 39 Essex Chambers, 4 New Square, Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, Fountain Court Chambers, Hardwicke, Radcliffe Chambers

Best Chambers for Social Life 2019: Henderson Chambers

The Henderson Chambers team with City Uni’s Zulkaif Riaz

Highly commended: 1 Crown Office Row, 12 King’s Bench Walk, 2 Hare Court, 4 Pump Court, 5 Essex Court, Cornerstone Barristers, Keating Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings

Most Admired Chambers 2019: Blackstone Chambers

UCL’s Christopher Ho with the Blackstone Chambers team

Highly commended: One Essex Court, Brick Court Chambers, Matrix Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, 1 Crown Office Row, Essex Court Chambers, 11KBW, Doughty Street Chambers, Landmark Chambers

Legal Cheek Chambers of the Year 2019: Radcliffe Chambers

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson presents the Radcliffe Chambers team with their trophy

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, 5 Essex Court, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, 2 Temple Gardens

Best Use of Social Media 2019: YouTuber Angeliculture

Who better than Rosie Williams of Love Island fame to present Angelica Olawepo with the award for ‘Best Use of Social Media’?

Highly commended: Vlogger Chrissie Wolfe (Law and Broader) and Irwin Mitchell, 5 Essex Court’s Instagram account, Linklaters and Eve Cornwell’s collab video, The Bar Council’s ‘#iamthebar’ Twitter campaign, Blogger Rosie Watterson (Apply.Shine.Win) and Herbert Smith Freehills, Shoosmiths’ Facebook Livestreams, The Secret Barrister, The UK Supreme Court’s Instagram, Shearman & Sterling’s video series, ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’

Best Legal Cheek Journal Contribution 2019: Max Aitchison for ‘Revenge porn: Love Island and the law’

Max Aitchison receives his trophy from LPC Law partner Michael Javaherian

Sponsored by LPC Law, a specialist firm of solicitors, focused on providing a high quality advocacy and clerking service to clients throughout England and Wales.

Highly commended: ‘Why our employment laws need some serious attention’ by Fraser Collingham, ‘The coming of the age of AI in the law’ by Soh Kian Peng, ‘Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence’ by Gina Heung Lai Yin, ‘Should there be criminal liability for corporations?’ by Rodney Dzwairo, ‘What does artificial intelligence look like?’ by Nishant Prasad, ‘Should law firms be able to float?’ by Clive Wong, ‘Should sex offenders have access to the internet?’ by Maro Polykarpou, ‘Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?’ By Eeman Talha, ‘Owens v Owens: Has the time finally come for a ‘no-fault divorce’ system?’ By Thomas McGrath

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And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2019 are…

Gongs galore for industry’s top players, including firm of the year Taylor Wessing and ‘Most Admired’ chambers Blackstone

The Legal Cheek Awards 2019

The legal profession has celebrated the top rookie-rated law firms and chambers of the year in a glitzy ceremony held at the top of London’s iconic Cheesegrater skyscraper.

This year’s Legal Cheek Awards, sponsored by BARBRI International, took place on Thursday evening in Landing Forty Two of the tapering City of London tower officially known as the Leadenhall Building. Three-hundred guests from the UK’s leading corporate law firms and barristers’ chambers donned their sharpest suits and highest heels to ascend the escalators and glass-panelled lifts for the exclusive ceremony, hosted by Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge.

Before the Awards bash got underway, Sarah Hutchinson, BARBRI International managing director, presented the findings of Legal Cheek‘s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) survey, before the audience were treated to the premiere of a short film, produced exclusively for the event by the Legal Cheek team.

Can you spot the special guest playing a cameo role in this year’s Legal Cheek Awards video?

Legal Cheek student campus ambassadors presented no less than 23 gongs alongside a handful of sponsors and legal celebrities, including Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams.

Rosie Williams with the Legal Cheek campus ambassadors and vloggers Chrissie Wolfe and Eve Cornwell #squadgoals

So who won what? Read on to find out.

Best Law Firm for Training 2019: Osborne Clarke

The Osborne Clarke team pick up their gong from King’s College London’s Simran Malhi

Highly commended: Ashurst, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Mayer Brown, Norton Rose Fulbright, Pinsent Masons, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Quality of Work 2019: Shearman & Sterling

Emma Hopkins, our campus ambassador for Cambridge Uni, with Paul Gascoyne and the Shearman & Sterling team

Highly commended: Bristows, Farrer & Co, Fladgate, Foot Anstey, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Macfarlanes, Milbank, Mills & Reeve, Osborne Clarke, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Peer Support 2019: Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown’s Danielle White receives the award from Hertfordshire Uni’s Gayathiri Kanagasundaram

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Farrer & Co, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, PwC, Simmons & Simmons, Taylor Wessing, White & Case

Best Law Firm for Partner Approachability 2019: Womble Bond Dickinson

Carter Corson business psychologist Sara Duxbury presents Womble Bond Dickinson’s Joanne Smallwood with the award

Sponsored by Carter Corson, business psychologists supporting high-profile organisations, particularly professional services firms.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft, Eversheds Sutherland, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, RPC, Ropes & Gray, Shoosmiths, Squire Patton Boggs, TLT, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith

Best Law Firm for Work/Life Balance 2019: DWF

LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer with the DWF team

Sponsored by LawCare, the charity that supports and promotes mental health and wellbeing in the legal community throughout the UK and Ireland.

Highly commended: Ashfords, BLM, Blake Morgan, Browne Jacobson, Fieldfisher, Forsters, Irwin Mitchell, Mills & Reeve, Royds Withy King

Best Law Firm for Tech 2019: CMS

STEM Future Lawyers ambassador Nishant Prasad hands the CMS team their trophy

Sponsored by STEM Future Lawyers, the legal careers network for science, technology, engineering and maths students.

Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, DWF, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons

Best Law Firm for Perks 2019: Clifford Chance

Coventry student Phoebe Howard presents the award to Clifford Chance trainee Adam Hunter

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Milbank, Ropes & Gray, Skadden, White & Case

Most Impressive Law Firm Office 2019: Gowling WLG

The Gowling WLG team collecting their award from University of East Anglia student Giannis Christofi

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, Norton Rose Fulbright, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm Canteen 2019: Addleshaw Goddard

Roehampton Uni’s Aimee Peacock with the Addleshaw Goddard team

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clyde & Co, Gowling WLG, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm for Social Life 2019: Burges Salmon

Imperial student Gatsby Fitzgerald presents Burges Salmon with their award

Highly commended: Bristows, Browne Jacobson, Charles Russell Speechlys, K&L Gates, RPC, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris, Wedlake Bell

Best Law Firm for International Secondments 2019: White & Case

HBW Consulting co-founder and director John Hancock presents the prize to the White & Case team

Sponsored by HBW Consulting, a boutique agency that works as a specialist extension to your graduate recruitment team, helping law firms with media strategy, spend and analysis.

Highly commended: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Clifford Chance, Debevoise & Plimpton, Dechert, HFW, Shearman & Sterling, Skadden, Stephenson Harwood, Watson Farley & Williams

Best Law Firm for Client Secondments 2019: Squire Patton Boggs

City Uni law student Malek Arab presents Squire Patton Boggs with their gong

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith, RPC, Walker Morris, Weightmans

Most Admired Law Firm 2019: Bird & Bird

Final-year Queen Mary law student Saeed Mahmood hands a Bird & Bird rep their prize

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Slaughter and May

Legal Cheek Firm of the Year 2019: Taylor Wessing

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson with Taylor Wessing’s Lydia Block and Olivia Coppin

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith

Best Chambers for Training 2019: Hardwicke

The Hardwicke team receive their award from Coventry Uni’s Samiksha Shetty

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 5 Essex Court, 7 King’s Bench Walk, Atkin Chambers, Blackstone Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Quality of Work 2019: Littleton Chambers

Bar Squared CEO Helen Ford with Littleton Chambers

Sponsored by Bar Squared, legal tech company and developers of LEX, a leading software solution for barristers’ chambers.

Highly commended: 11KBW, 4 New Square, 5 Essex Court, Blackstone Chambers, Brick Court Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Landmark Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Colleague Supportiveness 2019: Cornerstone Barristers

Carolina Gasparoli and the Cornerstone Barristers team pick up their gong from Kingston Uni’s Maria Dvornikova

Highly commended: Devereux Chambers, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Outer Temple Chambers, St John’s Chambers

Best Chambers for Facilities 2019: Exchange Chambers

Bristol Uni’s Holly Hill presents Exchange Chambers’ Tom Handley with the trophy

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 3 Verulam Buildings, 39 Essex Chambers, 4 New Square, Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, Fountain Court Chambers, Hardwicke, Radcliffe Chambers

Best Chambers for Social Life 2019: Henderson Chambers

The Henderson Chambers team with City Uni’s Zulkaif Riaz

Highly commended: 1 Crown Office Row, 12 King’s Bench Walk, 2 Hare Court, 4 Pump Court, 5 Essex Court, Cornerstone Barristers, Keating Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings

Most Admired Chambers 2019: Blackstone Chambers

UCL’s Christopher Ho with the Blackstone Chambers team

Highly commended: One Essex Court, Brick Court Chambers, Matrix Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, 1 Crown Office Row, Essex Court Chambers, 11KBW, Doughty Street Chambers, Landmark Chambers

Legal Cheek Chambers of the Year 2019: Radcliffe Chambers

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson presents the Radcliffe Chambers team with their trophy

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, 5 Essex Court, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, 2 Temple Gardens

Best Use of Social Media 2019: YouTuber Angeliculture

Who better than Rosie Williams of Love Island fame to present Angelica Olawepo with the award for ‘Best Use of Social Media’?

Highly commended: Vlogger Chrissie Wolfe (Law and Broader) and Irwin Mitchell, 5 Essex Court’s Instagram account, Linklaters and Eve Cornwell’s collab video, The Bar Council’s ‘#iamthebar’ Twitter campaign, Blogger Rosie Watterson (Apply.Shine.Win) and Herbert Smith Freehills, Shoosmiths’ Facebook Livestreams, The Secret Barrister, The UK Supreme Court’s Instagram, Shearman & Sterling’s video series, ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’

Best Legal Cheek Journal Contribution 2019: Max Aitchison for ‘Revenge porn: Love Island and the law’

Max Aitchison receives his trophy from LPC Law partner Michael Javaherian

Sponsored by LPC Law, a specialist firm of solicitors, focused on providing a high quality advocacy and clerking service to clients throughout England and Wales.

Highly commended: ‘Why our employment laws need some serious attention’ by Fraser Collingham, ‘The coming of the age of AI in the law’ by Soh Kian Peng, ‘Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence’ by Gina Heung Lai Yin, ‘Should there be criminal liability for corporations?’ by Rodney Dzwairo, ‘What does artificial intelligence look like?’ by Nishant Prasad, ‘Should law firms be able to float?’ by Clive Wong, ‘Should sex offenders have access to the internet?’ by Maro Polykarpou, ‘Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?’ By Eeman Talha, ‘Owens v Owens: Has the time finally come for a ‘no-fault divorce’ system?’ By Thomas McGrath

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And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2019 are…

Gongs galore for industry’s top players, including firm of the year Taylor Wessing and ‘Most Admired’ chambers Blackstone

The Legal Cheek Awards 2019

The legal profession has celebrated the top rookie-rated law firms and chambers of the year in a glitzy ceremony held at the top of London’s iconic Cheesegrater skyscraper.

This year’s Legal Cheek Awards, sponsored by BARBRI International, took place on Thursday evening in Landing Forty Two of the tapering City of London tower officially known as the Leadenhall Building. Three-hundred guests from the UK’s leading corporate law firms and barristers’ chambers donned their sharpest suits and highest heels to ascend the escalators and glass-panelled lifts for the exclusive ceremony, hosted by Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge.

Before the Awards bash got underway, Sarah Hutchinson, BARBRI International managing director, presented the findings of Legal Cheek‘s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) survey, before the audience were treated to the premiere of a short film, produced exclusively for the event by the Legal Cheek team.

Can you spot the special guest playing a cameo role in this year’s Legal Cheek Awards video?

Legal Cheek student campus ambassadors presented no less than 23 gongs alongside a handful of sponsors and legal celebrities, including Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams.

Rosie Williams with the Legal Cheek campus ambassadors and vloggers Chrissie Wolfe and Eve Cornwell #squadgoals

So who won what? Read on to find out.

Best Law Firm for Training 2019: Osborne Clarke

The Osborne Clarke team pick up their gong from King’s College London’s Simran Malhi

Highly commended: Ashurst, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Mayer Brown, Norton Rose Fulbright, Pinsent Masons, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Quality of Work 2019: Shearman & Sterling

Emma Hopkins, our campus ambassador for Cambridge Uni, with Paul Gascoyne and the Shearman & Sterling team

Highly commended: Bristows, Farrer & Co, Fladgate, Foot Anstey, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Macfarlanes, Milbank, Mills & Reeve, Osborne Clarke, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris

Best Law Firm for Peer Support 2019: Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown’s Danielle White receives the award from Hertfordshire Uni’s Gayathiri Kanagasundaram

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Farrer & Co, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, PwC, Simmons & Simmons, Taylor Wessing, White & Case

Best Law Firm for Partner Approachability 2019: Womble Bond Dickinson

Carter Corson business psychologist Sara Duxbury presents Womble Bond Dickinson’s Joanne Smallwood with the award

Sponsored by Carter Corson, business psychologists supporting high-profile organisations, particularly professional services firms.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft, Eversheds Sutherland, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, RPC, Ropes & Gray, Shoosmiths, Squire Patton Boggs, TLT, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith

Best Law Firm for Work/Life Balance 2019: DWF

LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer with the DWF team

Sponsored by LawCare, the charity that supports and promotes mental health and wellbeing in the legal community throughout the UK and Ireland.

Highly commended: Ashfords, BLM, Blake Morgan, Browne Jacobson, Fieldfisher, Forsters, Irwin Mitchell, Mills & Reeve, Royds Withy King

Best Law Firm for Tech 2019: CMS

STEM Future Lawyers ambassador Nishant Prasad hands the CMS team their trophy

Sponsored by STEM Future Lawyers, the legal careers network for science, technology, engineering and maths students.

Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, DWF, Gowling WLG, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons

Best Law Firm for Perks 2019: Clifford Chance

Coventry student Phoebe Howard presents the award to Clifford Chance trainee Adam Hunter

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Milbank, Ropes & Gray, Skadden, White & Case

Most Impressive Law Firm Office 2019: Gowling WLG

The Gowling WLG team collecting their award from University of East Anglia student Giannis Christofi

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, Norton Rose Fulbright, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm Canteen 2019: Addleshaw Goddard

Roehampton Uni’s Aimee Peacock with the Addleshaw Goddard team

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clyde & Co, Gowling WLG, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing

Best Law Firm for Social Life 2019: Burges Salmon

Imperial student Gatsby Fitzgerald presents Burges Salmon with their award

Highly commended: Bristows, Browne Jacobson, Charles Russell Speechlys, K&L Gates, RPC, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris, Wedlake Bell

Best Law Firm for International Secondments 2019: White & Case

HBW Consulting co-founder and director John Hancock presents the prize to the White & Case team

Sponsored by HBW Consulting, a boutique agency that works as a specialist extension to your graduate recruitment team, helping law firms with media strategy, spend and analysis.

Highly commended: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Clifford Chance, Debevoise & Plimpton, Dechert, HFW, Shearman & Sterling, Skadden, Stephenson Harwood, Watson Farley & Williams

Best Law Firm for Client Secondments 2019: Squire Patton Boggs

City Uni law student Malek Arab presents Squire Patton Boggs with their gong

Highly commended: Baker McKenzie, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith, RPC, Walker Morris, Weightmans

Most Admired Law Firm 2019: Bird & Bird

Final-year Queen Mary law student Saeed Mahmood hands a Bird & Bird rep their prize

Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Slaughter and May

Legal Cheek Firm of the Year 2019: Taylor Wessing

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson with Taylor Wessing’s Lydia Block and Olivia Coppin

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Bird & Bird, Bristows, Burges Salmon, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith

Best Chambers for Training 2019: Hardwicke

The Hardwicke team receive their award from Coventry Uni’s Samiksha Shetty

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 5 Essex Court, 7 King’s Bench Walk, Atkin Chambers, Blackstone Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Quality of Work 2019: Littleton Chambers

Bar Squared CEO Helen Ford with Littleton Chambers

Sponsored by Bar Squared, legal tech company and developers of LEX, a leading software solution for barristers’ chambers.

Highly commended: 11KBW, 4 New Square, 5 Essex Court, Blackstone Chambers, Brick Court Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Landmark Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn, Wilberforce Chambers

Best Chambers for Colleague Supportiveness 2019: Cornerstone Barristers

Carolina Gasparoli and the Cornerstone Barristers team pick up their gong from Kingston Uni’s Maria Dvornikova

Highly commended: Devereux Chambers, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Outer Temple Chambers, St John’s Chambers

Best Chambers for Facilities 2019: Exchange Chambers

Bristol Uni’s Holly Hill presents Exchange Chambers’ Tom Handley with the trophy

Highly commended: 2 Temple Gardens, 3 Verulam Buildings, 39 Essex Chambers, 4 New Square, Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, Fountain Court Chambers, Hardwicke, Radcliffe Chambers

Best Chambers for Social Life 2019: Henderson Chambers

The Henderson Chambers team with City Uni’s Zulkaif Riaz

Highly commended: 1 Crown Office Row, 12 King’s Bench Walk, 2 Hare Court, 4 Pump Court, 5 Essex Court, Cornerstone Barristers, Keating Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings

Most Admired Chambers 2019: Blackstone Chambers

UCL’s Christopher Ho with the Blackstone Chambers team

Highly commended: One Essex Court, Brick Court Chambers, Matrix Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, 1 Crown Office Row, Essex Court Chambers, 11KBW, Doughty Street Chambers, Landmark Chambers

Legal Cheek Chambers of the Year 2019: Radcliffe Chambers

BARBRI’s Sarah Hutchinson presents the Radcliffe Chambers team with their trophy

Presented by BARBRI, the interntional legal qualifications specialist.

Highly commended: Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, 5 Essex Court, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, 2 Temple Gardens

Best Use of Social Media 2019: YouTuber Angeliculture

Who better than Rosie Williams of Love Island fame to present Angelica Olawepo with the award for ‘Best Use of Social Media’?

Highly commended: Vlogger Chrissie Wolfe (Law and Broader) and Irwin Mitchell, 5 Essex Court’s Instagram account, Linklaters and Eve Cornwell’s collab video, The Bar Council’s ‘#iamthebar’ Twitter campaign, Blogger Rosie Watterson (Apply.Shine.Win) and Herbert Smith Freehills, Shoosmiths’ Facebook Livestreams, The Secret Barrister, The UK Supreme Court’s Instagram, Shearman & Sterling’s video series, ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’

Best Legal Cheek Journal Contribution 2019: Max Aitchison for ‘Revenge porn: Love Island and the law’

Max Aitchison receives his trophy from LPC Law partner Michael Javaherian

Sponsored by LPC Law, a specialist firm of solicitors, focused on providing a high quality advocacy and clerking service to clients throughout England and Wales.

Highly commended: ‘Why our employment laws need some serious attention’ by Fraser Collingham, ‘The coming of the age of AI in the law’ by Soh Kian Peng, ‘Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence’ by Gina Heung Lai Yin, ‘Should there be criminal liability for corporations?’ by Rodney Dzwairo, ‘What does artificial intelligence look like?’ by Nishant Prasad, ‘Should law firms be able to float?’ by Clive Wong, ‘Should sex offenders have access to the internet?’ by Maro Polykarpou, ‘Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?’ By Eeman Talha, ‘Owens v Owens: Has the time finally come for a ‘no-fault divorce’ system?’ By Thomas McGrath

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A trust spokesperson said: “Patrick has given most of his working life to the NHS and in particular to healthcare here in York and North Yorkshire and has led the trust through some of the most significantly challenging times that the health service has faced.” The spokesperson added that the CEO, who’s trust board was voted Board of the Year in 2012, has “distinguished himself as an advocate of the patient” throughout his career and ensured that patient focus remains the priority of the trust. Crowley, the spokesperson added, was proud to lead the trust to pay the living wage and higher to all staff in 2015, and positive staff engagement was an important element of his leadership at the trust. “We wish Patrick all the very best for the future and thank him for his many years of service, support and leadership. Patrick leaves the trust after a distinguished career in the service of both the people of York and North Yorkshire and our National Health Service,” the trust said. 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Haha soz

so looks like I haven’t done an update since Barcelona, which was about 15 months ago.. 

A shit tonne has actually happened since that trip, I will endeavour to give as much detail as possible, but I make no promises.

Here we go:

Olivia and I flew into Paris and spent the first day exploring Paris, which was amazing. We did the Eiffel Tower, ate pastries and of course, went and got macarons from Laduree. We lasted 2 days before we finally exploded and it resulted in me packing my bags and flying back to Edinburgh. Olivia ended up doing the rest of the trip by herself, which probably wasn’t terrible. She really enjoyed being able to do her own thing. 

Edinburgh was a bit lame in those 2 weeks as Tristan was away on an army camp and Anna was away as well. I spent my days cooped up in Anna’s flat trying not to spend any money before jetting off to DC. I managed to kill a week (even though it felt like forever) and I finally hopped on the plane down the London before boarding another flight to DC where I did a layover in Iceland. It was a long, painful flight and I was so jet-lagged when I finally arrived into Baltimore Airport where Connor picked me up. Seeing him again was magical, I didn’t realise how much I missed him. We headed back to his place and I was trying so hard not to fall asleep. I felt awful because all I wanted to do was chat and sing and just enjoy being with Connor. We finally get back to his place and head out in search of food. I almost fell asleep eating my food, so we headed back to his place and I crashed around 10pm and Connor headed out to mates place in another apartment for a bit so I could get some rest. 

The next few days he showed me around DC and we visited the monuments which we beautiful. I would love to go back some day and do it all again. DC was my favourite state in America (so far). After a few days with Connor, I jumped on a bus up to Philadelphia to visit Aunty Liz and Uncle Arthur for a week. It was amazing to see them again, and see their house and see what their lives are like. They live in a really nice, quant suburban area of Philly where they are surrounded by woodlands and little coffee shops. Their house was beautiful and it was great to catch up with William and Alex as well. After spending a week with Liz and Arthur, I jumped on another bus up to the next state; NEW YORK!

So wow. New York was next level! Connor and I were staying at a hostel on the edge of Central Park, it was alright.. I’ve stayed in better places, but for the price of it, we couldn’t complain. We spent our first day walking from our hostel (north west central park) through central park and down in the centre of Manhattan to walk through Broadway and experience the real New York. One of the nights that we were there, we even went to a Broadway show - MISERY. One of my favourite books by Stephen King. The main character - Paul Sheldon, was played by Bruce Willis which was pretty cool to see him doing some live play acting. It was such a great night! The next day Connor and I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and explored the back streets of Brooklyn. After quite awhile, we finally came across the hipster area of Brooklyn which was so cool (I did not feel cool enough to hang out there). It was full of guys with beards and top buns. It was surreal. I would have bought all the clothes if it weren’t for the fact that everything costed ridiculous amounts of money. That day was a lot of weeping, whining and window shopping.

From New York, Connor and I headed back down to Philly together to spend Christmas with Liz, Arthur and Alex (William was in the Canary Islands with his boyfriend). It was the most incredible few days, they loved Connor and Connor loved them. We all got drunk together on many occasions and spent our days playing board games and setting up the house for Christmas Day. After Xmas, Connor and I headed back down to DC for New Years where we ended up just spending it in his apartment getting drunk, dancing, and making ridiculous videos of ourselves! We spent the next few days just chilling, teaching ourselves to play guitar and eating amazing food. We rented a car and drove to West Virginia and it was the best road trip possibly ever. We sang and sang and sang. We stopped off at Shenandoah National Park and explored that for a bit. We eventually made it to Connors flat mates house, whose family we were visiting as there was a massive post christmas party taking place down the road. Holy shitting christ - this was probably one of the most surreal experiences of my life (other than the caving in Budapest). The house party we ended up going to was a lot of family friends gathering together in the massive, white estate looking house in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in Virginia. The wives were all perfect and the husbands.. well they weren’t so perfect. It was almost like stepping in the movie, The Stepford Wives. The children were perfection, we all got high, and they all sat around and sang beautiful songs and played instruments. Connor and I just sat back and enjoyed. It doesn’t sound like much, but you needed to be there to experience it. For them it was so normal, but my god, yeah surreal..

We headed back to DC the next day and headed onto our next destination, Boston. Now, I can’t really say much for Boston. Maybe it was because it was our last state on the trip, or because it was fucking freezing, I don’t know. But neither of us loved it. We visited Harvard whilst we were there and it was pretty underwhelming. I can’t even recall what else we did there - we did stumble upon this cool comic book store. But that’s basically it. (I couldn’t even tell you how long we were there).

I flew home after Boston, and the first thing I did when I landed was call Anna and tell her I was craving Wings, and then I texted Tristan and told him the same thing. 1 hour later and I found myself sitting in Wings with my two favourite people, in my favourite cafe, in my favourite city in the world. I couldn’t have been happier. It was great to catch up with them and just seeing their faces again were great. I hadn’t seen either of them in 6 weeks. It was great to see Tristan again and know that we could be apart for 6 weeks and still have the flame. Especially because we had only been seeing each other for 3 weeks when I made the decision to stay in Edinburgh for a further 6 months. 

Tris and I had booked an AirBnB for my return as we wanted to spend some time together and celebrate our own little Christmas. We rented it up near Toll Cross really close to where Charlie was living. It was a really cute little apartment. I had gotten Tris a mug from the Friends store and he got me a copy of Child44 - my favourite book at the time. It was a lovely weekend with him.

I got a job pretty quickly at JLT - an occupational pension administrator company. It was lame as hell, but it paid the bills - well until Tristans mum asked me to move in with them about 4 months into Tris and I dating. I said yes and I was suddenly living cost free - which was great as Tristan had decided to come back to New Zealand with me in June. Not a lot happened in my last 6 months of living in Edinburgh. It was a pretty mundane lifestyle as Tristan and I were frantically saving for New Zealand and I worked a VERY mundane job. I saw the girls as much as possible, but after moving out to Dalmeny, it was pretty hard to see them most days. It was mainly in the weekends. I miss them all so damn much.

Tristan and I came back in NZ in June 2016, and we spent 2 months adventuring around the North Island and spending time with Mum and Nigel and then Dad and Drew. Tris had planned to only spend 2 months here as he needed to get back to Scotland for Uni and Army. I was OK with that at the time, and I am certainly OK with it now. I think I always knew that I didn’t see Tristan as a long term partner. Which is a shame - because I know that he saw me that way. I broke up with him about a week after he left. I realised that I didn’t miss him as much as I should have. Every time he called me, it felt like a chore to have to answer the phone and chat to him. So that was the end of that..

I got a job pretty quickly, working at Fisher Funds for a month covering a guy called Matt who was heading to America to visit his mum who was sick. The job was a crappy job, but I ended up making an incredible couple of friend through the job. Mainly - Helen. Helen has become one of my closest friends in Auckland and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is currently 6 months pregnant and I cannot wait to be ‘Aunty Elle’ and she has named me. I utterly adore her <3. Another couple of friends I have made from Fishers is Sarah and Matt. Both incredible and I love hanging out with all of them.

I last at Fishers for a few weeks but ended up resigning as there ended up being a bit of a complication as I outted them accidentally to the recruitment agency that Fishers was lying to them and avoiding paying recruitment fees.. so post that, there ended up being some bullying and I wasn’t going to stand for it, so I was OUT. I moved to Perpetual Guardian, which really wasn’t any better. It was a total bore - it was working in Wills, EPA’s and Trusts which could not have been more boring if i’d tried. Whilst working there, I got a call from Nuala from Hudson tell me about this new job at Network for Learning where I would be Admin/Receptionist in this really awesome tech company in Parnell. Well, you shoulda seen my face when I was offered the job after an interview the week before. I couldn’t have got out of Perpetual Guardian fast enough.

So,

Since June last year, Tristan and I ventured around the North Island together for 2 months, then I broke up with him a week after he left because I realised I didn’t love him anymore. I have jumped between 3 jobs since being back. I moved into Glen Innes/St Johns with Dad and Drew since being and home, and hopefully we will be moving again soon. Mum and Nigel live in Te Aroha and Olivia is killing it at The Raw Kitchen. Nothing overly noteworthy has happened over the past 10 months other than I now work at N4L which I love, living at home still, and am currently ‘seeing’ someone who I think is pretty damn cool. Hope he sticks around when he finds out how much of a weirdo I am.

Oh on a kinda exciting note: I have flights booked to Japan in August for a 20 days solo trip. Also, heading down to Dunedin/Wanaka for 6 days next week. Hopefully after that I will have some interesting things to talk about.

Ciao.

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