Krishan Neelendra (below) felt a 2.1 in law from the University of Oxford was not sufficient to win a training contract at a good law firm. Nor his list of private pursuits: playing football, tennis, cricket and hockey for his college (Somerville), presenting a show on Oxide, the university radio station, a role on his college’s undergraduate committee and contributing poetry to Cherwell, the student newspaper. Despite working at a pro-bono law organisation, he still believed his CV needed something extra to make him sparkle. So he did an internship at Lantai partners, a Chinese law firm, in Beijing.
克里尚•尼倫德拉(Krishan Neelendra)認爲,他在牛津大學(University of Oxford)法學專業二等一級的成績(2.1,相當於中國大學本科平均分75分以上,譯者注),還不足以讓他贏得一家優秀律師事務所的培訓合同(training contract,在英國,在律所完成兩年培訓是成爲正式執業律師的必要步驟,這種合同本質上是工作合同——譯者注)。他曾爲他所就讀的牛津大學薩默維爾學院(Somerville)踢足球、打網球、板球和冰球,在大學廣播電臺Oxide主持一檔節目,在所在學院大學生委員會任職,還在學生報紙《查韋爾》(Cherwell)上發表過詩歌,但他的這些經歷,都不足以幫他實現贏得律所培訓合同這個目標。儘管他當時正在一家非盈利法律機構工作,但他仍認爲,他的簡歷中還需要有一些別的內容,才能讓他脫穎而出。因此他來到北京,在一家名爲蘭臺的中國本土律師事務所實習了一段時間。