Every year the Pretoria Attorneys Association hosts a gathering for the new candidate attorneys in order to welcome them into the legal fraternity and to encourage them to actively participate in the well-being of the profession, which is in essence the focus of the Association. Each year the Association secures a speaker, renowned in the legal fraternity, to impart a few words of wisdom and in so doing assist them on their journey. This year the Association was very proud to have secured Gerhard Painter. We trust that our new CAs benefited from his pearls of wisdom and embraced the opportunity to get to know their each other on a more social level.