Pupillage Vacancy Information
We offer a total pupillage award of £40,000 [£20,000 (tax free) in your First Six and guaranteed earnings of £20,000 in your Second Six] plus additional benefits, including free private healthcare and access to PerkBox, as well as excellent IT support including provision of Microsoft 365 and PDF applications. We provide a wide range of online resources, a strong and supportive clerking team and excellent barristers from whom you can learn. Detailed information about your pupillage training and other benefits can be found on our website at https://www.3pb.co.uk/pupillage/
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Our recruitment system is as fair and transparent as we can make it. We work to competencies and qualities and have stripped out any reliance on A Levels, which school or university you went to or who you know. We even strip out your name for marking in the paper sift. Your application is marked independently by two different markers. The interviews are conducted openly and fairly, with a careful structure to ensure that everyone gets a chance to shine and show us their best. We make reasonable adjustments when necessary. We select for excellence and nothing else. And we are flexible about how how excellence can be demonstrated – it can be the traditional ways but we also look beyond to unusual backgrounds and achievements. We think our recent recruits demonstrate beyond doubt that excellence comes in many different packages.
How to Apply
In addition to the standardised Bar Council questionnaire, candidates will be asked to respond to the following questions from Chambers:
- Why do you believe you have the qualities to be a good barrister? In your answer, please identify any relevant experiences or skills that you believe may help you in your career and why.
- Please tell us why you want to join 3PB in particular. Please also mention any areas of law in which you are interested and why.
- Please choose one judgment from the last twelve months in any area of law, give us a short precis and explain why it is important.
- Tell us about a mistake you have made. How did you rectify it and what did you learn?
- Describe an obstacle that you have had to overcome and how you dealt with it.
- Tell us about a time you had difficulties with another person or group of people. What steps did you personally take to resolve the difficulties?
- Advocacy can take many forms. What advocacy experience do you have? Please describe one occasion on which you believe your advocacy made a difference and why.
This year we are recruiting through the Gateway. You will already have realised that we do not have a template for our pupils, but we do look for strong evidence of:
- Intellectual ability, which can include achievements outside the confines of university
- Good judgment
- Ability to deal with people
- Drive and Determination
- A commitment to the Bar and to 3PB and an understanding of what being a barrister means.
- Experience of public speaking, whether it be mooting, debating or other ways of presenting information.
We take your application to us very seriously and so our process is thorough and painstaking.
Our first-round interviews will be by Zoom on 30th March 2023 to 1st April 2023. Second round interviews will be held in person on 21st and 22nd April 2023 at our London Centre. You can see the quality and diversity of our pupils from our website and our helpful “To Pupillage & Beyond” and other webinars are available on our 3PB Pupillage Centre https://www.3pb.co.uk/pupillage/, together with other useful information about applying to us.
TENANCIES
Pupillage doesn't guarantee you a tenancy at 3PB, but we treat every pupil within Chambers as a potential candidate. You will not be in competition with the other pupils, but with yourself.
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
3PB is a highly regarded, multi-disciplinary, friendly and inclusive set with plenty of quality work and offering excellent prospects for excellent pupils across our six centres.
As a multi-disciplinary set, we can offer pupillages in different areas of law and in different ways, either focussed (if you already know what you want to do) or more general (if you are still not sure). You have the opportunity to explore a number of areas of law if you wish and we are always happy to help and advise you.
Opportunities For 2024
We are looking for six pupils to start in 2024. We strive to recruit for excellence above all and so are flexible about location and the area of law in which you want to practice. We are particularly interested in someone who would like to undertake a primarily commercial/civil practice from our Birmingham Centre and are always interested in a pupil for our Family Team (who can be based in almost any of our Centres). However, our other teams are also on the lookout for quality pupils, so if you believe you can satisfy our criteria, then you have a real prospect of being selected irrespective of the area of practice in which you are interested
