Tag: Pupillage
Why Unemployed Law Graduates Should Ignore The Trend To Go Out On The Street And Hustle For a Job
Earlier this week, a City lawyer told me that his firm had experienced a “surge”...
Entry To The Bar: ‘Let The Cream Rise To The Top’
OccupyTheInns disagrees with the call made by Mr Justice Burton at Saturday’s Young Bar Conference...
How To Survive The Bar Professional Training Course
After finally securing a pupillage over the summer, OccupyTheInns returns to offer his words of...
Survival Tips For Baby Barristers At The Publicly Funded Bar
Last week, David Cameron’s former chief-of-staff, Alex Deane, explained to Legal Cheek why he tired...
Didn’t Get a Pupillage? Well, There’s Always Origami
Hope is gradually fading for this year’s batch of BPTC graduates without pupillages as the...
Noses Back To The Grindstone: What Will The New Academic Year Bring For Law Students And Trainees?
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge and Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the big...
Law Graduate Sought For Barristers Chambers Job That Is ‘Not a Step Into Legal Work’
Amid falling training contract and pupillage numbers, these are bleak times for law graduates. Still,...
Finally, The Inns Of Court Are Occupied!
During the past year the light at the end of the tunnel grew so dim...
Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract
There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...
Pupillage Portal Gets The Year And The Day Wrong As Chambers Make Their Graduate Offers
There was widespread disbelief earlier this year when, for the first time in its three-year...
Pupillage Offer Day: How You’ll Feel…
…if you net that elusive pupillage And if you don’t…
‘If At First You Don’t Succeed, Just Give Up’
Accepting you’re not going to get a pupillage can take more courage than blindly persisting...
Plan B: If You Can’t Get a TC Or Pupillage, Become An Entrepreneur
The BBC’s Paul ‘I’ve-lived-in-London-for-20-years-but-still-speak-like-a-miner’ Mason is pessimistic about the future of conventional graduate jobs. “The...
EXCLUSIVE: Drug Possession Pupil Barrister Henry Mostyn Is Rejected For Tenancy
In May, 4 New Square chambers opted not to sack one its pupils, Henry Mostyn,...
Restricting The BPTC To Students Who’ve Already Bagged a Pupillage Wouldn’t Breach Competition Law…
…but it would put pressure on chambers to fund the course – and could lead...
Chambers Failure To Provide Interview Feedback And Travel Costs Is ‘Unacceptable’
For most people, summer means festivals and perhaps a few weeks in Ibiza. Not so...
Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis
The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that...
BPP Law School CEO Says Avoid Criminal Bar; Bar Council Chief Voices ‘Great Concern’ At Number Of Barrister Wannabes – Yet Still Students Keep Flocking To The BPTC
On Sunday BPP Law School chief executive Peter Crisp became the latest – and most...
‘Rushing More Ethnic Minority Students Into Pupillage Could Cause Culture Clash’
OccupyTheInns cautions against a “knee-jerk” reaction to a study that found ethnic minority students are...
You’ve Either Got It Or You Haven’t: The ‘Personality X Factor’ That’s Needed To Land a Pupillage
Orwell prize short-listed blogger Amanda Bancroft, a former barrister, on what differentiates the wannabes from...
Deadline Disbelief As Pupillage Portal DOESN’T Go Down
There is widespread shock among Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students today after the Pupillage...