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While a pay packet of £100,000 may no longer represent the top of the market for junior solicitors, the amount was yet to be achieved at the Bar. Until now. News that Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers has increased its pupillage award by 43 per cent, from £70,000 to £100,000, has been met with shock by […]
In March 2020 1 King’s Bench Walk Chambers (1KBW) had to suspend its mini pupillage programme due to the government-imposed lockdown. The family courts closed and conducted hearings by telephone and video conference. In the months that followed it became very difficult for the next generation of family lawyers to obtain work experience and get […]
“Remember that chambers are businesses. The pupillage application process is ultimately a system designed to identify the candidate that would be the most beneficial addition to that business.”
Klara Slater, a new tenant at 4PB, provides some tips for tackling the pupillage application process and making the most of your first six when you get there.
DAC Beachcroft’s in-house barrister and advocacy group, which launched just over a year ago, has decided to offer pupillages, The Lawyer can reveal. 8 DAC Beachcroft Buildings, or 8DB, will recruit two pupils under its new training programme, having been granted status as an authorised education and training organisation by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) […]
Leading barristers have taken to Twitter to share their application rejection tales as candidates across the country today find out if they have secured pupillage. Employment, clinical negligence and personal injury barrister Andrew Rhodes revealed that it took “four cycles and about 43 interviews” before landing a pupillage, which he underwent at Cloisters before completing […]
Pupillage awards are soaring as chambers battle for the best pupils.
The Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) has been scrapped nearly a decade after its introduction. The test was introduced in introduced in 2013 as a way to filter out aspiring barristers with little hope of making it, and had to be passed in order for a student to be accepted on the Bar Professional Training […]
One in six young barristers want to quit the profession, new research has revealed. Research carried out in spring 2021 by The Bar Council found the three top issues among barristers who wanted to quit were the amount of working hours, the unpredictability of working hours, and the potential mental health consequences of remaining at […]
As law firms compete to offer the best NQ salaries, barristers’ chambers too are considering how best to attract top talent.
The independent review of last year’s Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) has found that the three-way relationship between the BSB, the eight law school providers of the BPTC, and the electronic testing company Pearson VUE, which delivered the online exam, “ultimately contributed to the complexities in the booking and delivery of the examinations.” The Director […]
Seven top sets of barristers’ chambers have agreed to fund pupillages that would have been otherwise cancelled due to Covid-19. They follow in the wake of Keating Chambers, which put forward £20,000 in the summer to help fund a criminal Bar pupillage in a bid to offset the financial impact of the pandemic on the […]
A complex crime and fraud set has taken the decision to pause pupillage recruitment due to the pandemic. Red Lion Chambers will not be recruiting any pupils for its September 2022 cohort, with its programme re-opening in October 2021 for its 2023 cohort. The set said the pandemic has meant it has had to extend […]
Keating Chambers has put forward £20,000 to help fund a criminal bar pupillage, in a bid to offset the financial impact of the pandemic on the criminal bar. The one-off fund will support one pupillage for an aspiring criminal barrister. Construction set Keating has pledged the money for a set that has had to withdraw […]
The Director General of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has promised a “lessons learned review” of how the online Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) exams were managed this August. Over the course of the last week a host of students have complained about serious problems with the exams, including technical issues with the online delivery […]
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has updated its statement to students in relation to the difficulties some faced when taking an online exam this week, but the update itself has sparked an angry reaction from the profession. Some students attempting to take the ethics exam for the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) were dismayed with […]