Pupillage Vacancy Information
Our pupillages are funded by way of a fixed award of £29,000 per annum, paid monthly. As an employee of the firm our pupils have their professional courses, work related travel and practice certification costs fully funded. Pupils are also fully covered by the firm’s existing professional indemnity insurance and as a member of the employed bar will not incur any chambers overheads or accountancy costs. Employees of the firm also benefit from Browne Jacobson’s generous package of benefits including pension contributions, life assurance, income protection and health screening.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is a key focus both for Browne Jacobson LLP and Browne Jacobson Barristers. The firm is heavily invested in positioning itself as a leading light for inclusivity amongst UK law firms and has championed its employees to form active communities working in the areas of Pride, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), social mobility, disability and conditions, gender and working families. The barristers team is proudly diverse and champions its members in their support of our firm’s vast array of diversity and inclusion initiatives. In the past year our team has been prominent in supporting REACH, BSL, neurodiversity and supporting ‘FAIRE’ access to the legal profession.
For further information, please visit our website.
Accessibility Officer: Zena Comrie
Telephone Number: 0115 9766214
How to Apply
Apply online at www.brownejacobsoncareers.com. Applications open on Wednesday 4 January 2023 and close on Wednesday 8 February 2023. Candidates who achieve well at interview may also be offered the opportunity for employment as an Assistant Advocate at the firm in one or more of our regional offices.
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
Browne Jacobson Barristers is a fully clerked team of employed barristers, plus assistant advocates and legal assistants operating as an in-house chambers within a full service law firm, ranked as the leading social mobility employer in the UK (Social Mobility Foundation, 2021). We truly offer a ‘best of both’ approach to the Bar, with the career flexibility and clerking style of the independent Bar alongside the team structure and financial incentives that come with an employed position.
Browne Jacobson LLP has offices in Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, Exeter, London, and Dublin with an impressive client portfolio including blue chip corporates, local and owner managed businesses, NHS Trusts, major insurers, education and public sector organisations. Our lawyers are highly experienced across a wide variety of sectors from local authorities, health and insurance to corporates and charities, working together to provide access to a full range of commercial and public sector legal services.
Launched in 2010, Browne Jacobson Barristers has offered in-house pupillages for 12 years and provides advocacy services to both internal and external clients. The team specialises in regulatory, civil and public law in the fields of health, education and social work as well as on behalf of major insurers. The team are instructed to prosecute on behalf of national regulators and briefed to conduct high profile inquests for health organisations and government bodies. Cases are regularly reported nationally and members have been consistently recognised in the Legal 500 and more recently at the Manchester Young Talent Awards and in the Young Lawyer magazine.
Having established an excellent reputation for training and quality, the aim of the 2023 - 25 pupillage programme is to maximise the unique opportunities that arise from undertaking pupillage within a solicitors’ firm. Pupils will be integrated with the firm’s cohort of trainee solicitors to fully experience the social and community aspects of working within a law firm and to forge a fuller understanding of the firm and collegiate working with solicitor colleagues. Pupils are encouraged to explore areas of work outside of the team’s traditional services including from our London and Dublin offices and previous experience has included in the Court of Appeal and at major public inquiries. The aim is that the successful candidate will, by the end of their pupillage, have acquired both the skills and professional networks to commence a practise which mirrors that of our current barristers; tackling serious and challenging cases dealing with society’s biggest issues.
Further details about our pupillage can be found in our pupillage policy at https://www.brownejacobson.com/careers/join-us/pupillage.
We are offering one pupillage to commence in September 2023. Whilst our team provide coverage nationally and our pupils are encouraged to work from all offices throughout their pupillage we intend to offer pupillage based from our Exeter office.
