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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

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Your ultimate guides to training contract and pupillage applications this festive period

Legal Cheek careers resources reveal inside line on over 100 law firms and 50 chambers, and contain key graduate recruitment deadlines

Dec 29 2021 11:03am
Minimum pupillage awards to rise next month

A little over £19k for baby barristers in London

Dec 9 2021 2:01pm
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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
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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
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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
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Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years

757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020

Jul 28 2021 11:33am
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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
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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
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5 tips for putting in the perfect pupillage application

Tess Edge, barrister turned tutor at The University of Law in Birmingham, shares advice with students ahead of the Gateway deadline next week

Feb 2 2021 11:52am
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5 pupillage application essentials

Hardwicke barrister Katrina Mather on her path to pupillage and advice to applicants ahead of the Gateway deadline

Jan 28 2021 2:28pm
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A barrister’s guide to securing pupillage

Henderson Chambers’ Beatrice Graham reflects on her career journey and offers advice to aspiring barristers

Jan 19 2021 3:27pm
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Putting in a pupillage application amidst the pandemic

‘Each application is a piece of written advocacy’, says Devereux Chambers barrister Charlie Hill, who shares his top tips as the portal reopens today

Jan 4 2021 1:03pm