Daily Diary

Transylvanian families

Posted 6/08/2007 by The Daily Diary

What are trainees for? Okay, so The Diary can think of a thousand unprintable answers City partners might offer to that question but at Addleshaw Goddard the answer is… bricklaying.

The gritty Madchester outfit is sending this September’s intake of trainees on a house-building project in Romania, perhaps to undermine the claims of national rival Pinsent Masons that it has the better construction practice.

Not only does the pro bono project soothe the guilt of trainees who missed out on a gap-year digging latrines in Swaziland, it also helps out the locals now all their cheap labour is living in London post-EU accession.

While Addleshaws’ class of autumn 2007 will be driving wooden stakes into the Transylvanian earth, the location for next year’s project is, cunningly, Africa – so just watch those training contract applications rocket this summer.