Male Colleagues Nicknamed Me ‘Tiny Tits’, Says Ex-Clifford Chance Intern Who ‘Trained As a Lawyer In London’

Officially, City law firms are beacons of post-sexism enlightenment. In private, though, you hear all sorts of stories…

Occasionally one of these stories creeps into print.

Yesterday an article (£) about French people in London featuring Clifford Chance intern-turned fashion blogger Camille Charrière (pictured) appeared in the Sunday Times. Here’s the relevant passage:

Charrière lives and works here, and has an English boyfriend, but she plans to go back to France one day. She first trained as a lawyer in London and worked in the City, but hated it. Male colleagues nicknamed her “Tiny Tits”, and she found the post-work drinking culture hard to keep up with.

However, there is confusion about where all this happened. The Linkedin profile of Charrière, 24, a graduate of Kent University, contains no mention of any legal training she has undergone in London, with the two month internship she completed at Clifford Chance taking place at the firm’s Paris office.

According to Linkedin, Charrière did work in London for West End-based asset management firm LNG Capital as an “operations assistant” and “business development manager” (a position she apparently still holds), but there is no mention of any legal role.

So did Charrière actually train as a lawyer in London? And where did she acquire the “Tiny Tits” nickname? It’s all a bit of a mystery…

For followers of fashion, Charrière’s blog is here.