Tag: Pupillage

‘I spent years trying to crack the pupillage Rubik’s Cube’

Future pupil barrister Taz Aldeek offers up his top tips for those seeking a career at the bar

Oct 20 2022 10:26am
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Top barristers’ chambers raises pupillage award by over 40% to £100,000

Exclusive: Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers becomes first set to guarantee new graduates six figures in their first year

Aug 3 2022 8:43am
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Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair

Leading chambers and law schools return on 8 October for UK’s biggest bar careers event

Jun 29 2022 10:59am

DAC Beachcroft to offer pupillages for first time

In-house advocacy group 8DB looks to recruit two rookie barristers

May 24 2022 12:12pm
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6 top tips for securing pupillage

Gatehouse Chambers’ Jasmine Murphy shares her advice for aspiring pupils

Jan 21 2022 1:19pm

Why I rejected a magic circle TC offer to pursue a career at the bar

Henderson Chambers’ Beatrice Graham reflects on her career journey while offering advice to aspiring barristers aiming to secure pupillage

Jan 17 2022 12:08pm

Minimum pupillage awards to rise next month

A little over £19k for baby barristers in London

Dec 9 2021 2:01pm

Bar report: Ethnic minorities find it harder to secure pupillage

'There is a need to tone down your blackness' during interviews, one junior barrister told researchers

Nov 8 2021 12:02pm
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Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government

Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE

Oct 20 2021 12:49pm

Competition for pupillage fiercer than ever, Bar Council report finds

Number of applicants chasing each pupillage spot 'steadily increasing' every year

Sep 29 2021 9:23am

Pupil barrister pay hits £75,000 as top London sets boost awards

Rises at One Essex Court, Monckton, Matrix, 7KBW, 39 Essex and Outer Temple

Aug 4 2021 10:47am

Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years

757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020

Jul 28 2021 11:33am

Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair

Leading chambers and law schools return on 9 October for UK's biggest bar careers event

Jul 20 2021 9:54am

Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic

Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show

Jul 16 2021 10:24am

‘The bar must do better at giving pupillage applicants feedback’

BTC graduate and aspiring barrister Kieran Alker recounts his 'frustrating' experience and suggests a way to improve the process

Jun 10 2021 9:20am

Super regulator sides with pupillage seekers in row over rejection by silence

Follows letter from wannabe barrister first reported by Legal Cheek

Jun 8 2021 12:00pm

Pupillage: Bar leaders urged to stop ‘shameful’ rejection by silence

Aspiring barrister Noah Gifford describes common practice among chambers as ‘insulting’ in open letter

Mar 29 2021 11:14am

The dos and don’ts of pupillage applications

A trio of barristers from Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers and Radcliffe Chambers share their practical tips ahead of the Gateway deadline on Monday

Feb 4 2021 3:15pm