I was admitted as an attorney on 29 August 1995 and that means, as of today, I have been an attorney for 17 years. It amazes me how quickly the time flies. At the Law Society they generally give out certificates of long service to attorneys who have been in practice for 25 years, which most people concede is long enough to turn you mad and that for me is only 8 years away!

I was assisted by my admission application by an advocate who has now become a Senior Counsel, by the name of John Peter and I have to say it was a very special day for me and I think it is for anyone who gets admitted to a profession. Law does not suit everybody, although the skills that you will learn from law suit the running of most business but it has increasingly become a profession where more and more people are fighting over less and less money while under extreme duress from clients. I don’t ever like to put people off because the truth is, no matter how many attorneys there are, you could still make a success of the profession, but there is no doubt that statistically that is not the right profession to be getting into in South Africa anymore, but that does not mean, on a case by case basis, and one individual compared to another, that somebody cannot have a rewarding career in law.