hello hello how are you i'm really really excited for today's video because okay i'm just laughing
just thinking about it from honest with you but i am going to be sharing my most embarrassing
moment in the legal profession like this this tops it it's so you know those memories of things that
you have and you think about it you just your face just crinkles up you just want the ground
to swallow you up this is that video where i'll be sharing my most embarrassing moment
and some of you obviously will stay anonymous have also kindly shared
the most embarrassing moments you've had in the legal profession as well so all in all
quite a fun video let's just all laugh at me and slash each other as well let me just share
my most embarrassing moments i have to get it up on my phone just to remind me of the
uh the cringiness this was buried in the back of my mind and i just got reminded of it recently i
just thought you know what why not share it on youtube and you can all have a laugh i'm not
going to specify when or where this happened and basically let me just give you a bit of context so
there was a time when netflix would give uh like three month free trials or one month free trials
if you signed up with a new account and i'm sure some of you have done this but you sign up with
loads of different emails so you end up getting like three months trials like nearly every month
so i had a new email address that i could use and it was my work email that i could use
so i basically signed up to netflix using my work email and created a new account like that
and then had a free trial with that with that account i thought this is perfect now this is
great and what i did was which i shouldn't have done looking back is i turned on my kind of email
preferences so it meant that netflix could send me promotional videos about what to watch
etc so i left the organization after you leave the firm and i left the organization
i didn't know this but my email address and the inbox attached to that email address
another partner could have access to that or another colleague could have access to that
so when i left a partner had access to my inbox just to check that no emails came in from clients
exception they didn't miss anything so that's essentially what happened when i left the firm
and then obviously i'm just going about my life just you know enjoying
life and i get this email to my private email address from the partner and
it was a forwarded message from netflix and it was the title was
okay you know what i won't give the title first so what the email said was hi simran i hope all is
well just to say i receive your email so this is the partner emailing this and i've received this
and another email from netflix you might want to update your details although i hear series
1 of this show was very good now let me tell you what show this was the show was sex education so
the title of this email address was sex education season two is out now on netflix
and obviously the partner was just like oh yeah sim watches sex education he's just even says an
email i heard series one of the show was really good i don't know why i think it was because of
the title of the show and what it's about it honestly just really really cringed me out
it was like why did you have to send me this it was just oh so cringy like yeah it was cringe
like oh like why did i why didn't i just change my email preferences man
like just dumb i was just dumb i was just done and what i did was i replied back to
that email and i think i mentioned something because there's someone from my university who
actually featured in the show on netflix on in sex education so um i emailed back and i
said yeah fun fact i actually went to uni with one of the people who's in the show
just to kind of make it a bit light-hearted and i don't think they replied
so yeah that's that's great but yeah that was that was awkward and that was my most embarrassing
moment in the legal profession uh so yeah if you sign up to any subscriptions using your work email
just make sure you change your mailing preferences afterwards please to avoid awkward situations like
that now obviously i revealed my most embarrassing moment let's hear about yours right this is the
fun stuff because now everyone's laughed at me now everyone can laugh at all of y'all so
it's fine we're all here just laughing at each other right this one's clever so someone said
that they attended a virtual open day after law firm so it was virtual and they were speaking to
the partner and their mind went blank so what they did was they started miming so it looked
like there was an issue with teams that is so clever like acting as if you know you're just like
and everyone just thinks that you've like frozen it's amazing that's so so clever
i mean i can see why it'd be embarrassing because you're always just gonna be scared
and i'm not gonna lie it's clever but maybe they could hear the background noise i don't know
so you're always gonna be unsure about whether that's worked or not so
that's that's clever but i can see why it's also big orcs for you as well just starting to mime
that is that is hilarious so the next one was a pen leaked in my shirt pocket so you walked
around with massive ink on your chest no but they said that they firmed it though you know what
those kind of things even though they like they seem embarrassing you can try and change the
situation so they turn into conversation starters and then people can see your personality come out
so i can see why that'd be embarrassing because you're like oh my god like i've got this like ink
stain on my chest basically this one is hilarious instead of saying i would love it thank you
this individual said to an associate that they had just met thanks i love you
that is embarrassing man oh my god that is hilarious thanks i love how would you even get
back from that like oh god you dropped the l bomb on someone you don't even met that is hilarious
so the next person said on the first day the managing partner walked into my office introduced
himself and i asked him if he was an associate oh my god i know what you mean by this and i
know why it's super embarrassing but some partners genuinely look i'm not gonna i'm not saying that
all partners have to be old because and they have to look old it's not like that at all but there
have been individuals in the firm they look so young and you just think oh wow like you know they
must be an associate or something i think that's part of us you know we need to change our mindset
into thinking and not making those assumptions so one thing that i do when i reach when i meet
new people is i say oh hi nice to meet you and i try not to make any assumptions about where
they're at in terms of their position luckily our email signature tells us what position that person
is so whether they're a managing associate or a trainee etc so i just take it from there but yeah
massive hint just don't assume that you know what someone's position is also you may meet someone in
the firm who's quite a bit older and you might they might look like a partner but they might
actually be a director or they might be a managing associate so yeah really really be careful with
that oh no oh this one this one happens to the best of us this person said that they're being
their brain malfunctioned and a simple task took around four to five redos and the partner
was done with me i'm not gonna lie i've been there there have been moments i think it was when i was
paralegaling and i was given a document and i had to just make some really something really simple
out of it i think i misunderstood and i took the task on a whole other level and did some massive
corrections to it gave it back to the part and partner they said no i only wanted you to do this
then i'll go back and do it and then there's still like typos in there and you said you need to do it
again so this letter ended up getting printed out so many times because i just couldn't get it right
and i was getting really flustered i remember you know getting like my heart was beating a little
bit and the partner was done with me as well they were just like what are you doing with your life
so don't worry you know we've all been there um it's yeah it's it's slightly embarrassing but we
move we do move this person got stuck in another firm's canteen which is in the same building oh
my god that is hilarious i'm not gonna lie one thing about having firms in the same building
you've got to be really really careful about this and it's something that i have only come to learn
now on my training contract because in my office we share the office with other law firms and
sometimes when you're in the lift other lawyers from other firms can walk into the lift
because they're wanting to go downstairs to the canteen or they want to head out to the office etc
so really be careful about talking about don't talk about basically client information or what
matters you're working on because it could easily take someone in the lift to figure out
what you're talking about that goes beyond what this embarrassing story was like getting stuck
in another firm's canteen that is hilarious but maybe the food was nice you could have like done
a little bit of a taste session and see what your firm needed improving on in terms of menus
oh no this person totally blanked the managing partner because they had no idea who he was
you know what we've been there like there are sometimes so many people
in the firm that you cannot ever know everyone you can't it's it's impossible sometimes so yeah don't
beat yourself up about that one that that happens but hopefully managed to speak to him afterwards
the last one that we have is this was in an interview and the individuals asked what would
you do if you were at nando's with your friend and they were fighting over whose food was which
and um you know how would you what would you do in that situation when if your friends are arguing
over whose food is is who's this person said that they'll do nothing and just laugh i'm not gonna
lie i'll do the same i'll just be like a bunch of losers like why are you arguing over food for
just you know just order some more yo um and then the interview apparently didn't
take that well and then they just replied back and said oh sorry i'd exercise my
conflict resolution skills and negotiate and ensure a seamlessly fun experience for every
single person at the table that is hilarious because that is not what we would do we would
laugh at our friends we would say what are you all on why are you arguing about this you all are dumb
and then i'd probably if i was at nando's you know what if my friends were arguing over whose food
was which in a restaurant i'll just go get up i'll go get my garlic and herb sauce just pick
out all the sauces that i did i'd really take my time with it and maybe even order some perinaise
in the hope that when i get back to the table they would have sorted it out already and i just don't
have to do anything i've just got all the sauces there and i'm ready to eat that's what i would do
personally but that's just because i love nandos so much but yeah hopefully this video you found
really really useful thank you so much for watching and i'll see you all in the next one bye