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Pupillage Vacancy Information
About Landmark Chambers
Landmark is a leading chambers based in London offering integrated advocacy and advice in planning, property, environmental, public, rating and valuation law.
We are ranked as the number one planning, property and environmental chambers in the UK by the top legal directories. Landmark is regarded as one of the leading sets in our other main areas of work and have consistently won Real Estate Set of the Year and Planning/Environmental Set of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards. In October 2023, Landmark was awarded 'Set of the Year' at the prestigious Legal 500 UK Bar Awards.
Landmark Chambers offers up to three 12-month pupillages per year: one property pupillage and up to two pupillages for those who have a particular interest in at least one of Landmark’s other practice areas. We offer pupillages to those applicants who we believe have a realistic prospect of achieving a tenancy with us. Importantly, our pupils are not in competition with one another for a tenancy but are assessed solely on their own abilities and performance.
This page is exclusively for applications to the non-property pupillages available. If you wish to apply for the property pupillage, please see Landmark’s property advert on the Pupillage Gateway.
Training and assessment during pupillage
The pupillage year is divided into four seats of three months each. During the first three seats, we offer our pupils experience in all of Chambers’ complementary practice areas. For the final seat each pupil is given an opportunity to express a preference as to the practice area in which they are interested in receiving further training, and the pupil recruited to the property pupillage will be encouraged to take a fourth seat with one of the members of our property team.
Throughout the year we will encourage you to work for a cross-section of Chambers’ members and we will arrange for our Silks to act as your satellite supervisors on more complex cases. This will allow you to see a wide variety of work and take advantage of Landmark’s unique position as a leading specialist set, with significant overlap between its private law and public law practices. In your second six months you will also be offered opportunities to appear in court on your own account, usually in the County Court or First-Tier Tribunal.
We are committed to providing our pupils with high-quality and constructive training. To that end, you will receive regular feedback from your pupil supervisors and, at the end of the first and third seats, you will be invited to participate in formal feedback sessions with the Chair and Secretaries of our Pupillage Committee. Finally, our pupils participate in, and receive feedback in relation to three written and one oral advocacy assessment during their pupillage year.
The tenancy decision is taken on individual merit and is usually made after the first three seats of pupillage. Having taken on eight of nine pupils from the past three years, we have an excellent retention rate. However, if we are not able to offer you tenancy at the end of your pupillage, we have a good record of assisting our former pupils in finding third six opportunities or tenancies elsewhere.
Pupillage Vacancy Information
Landmark offers a pupillage award of £75,000 per year per pupil, which will be paid in equal monthly instalments. This includes an optional £30,000 drawdown, which may be used during the year preceding the start of pupillage. Chambers also funds pupils’ attendance at multiple external training events throughout their pupillage year, including the compulsory courses required of pupils by the Bar Standards Board and the Inns of Court.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Landmark is committed to actively improving equality and diversity at all levels at the Bar. We recognise the under-representation of women, black and ethnic minority groups and the LGBTQIA+ community both in Chambers and in the Bar more widely. We wish to recruit the best people from the widest possible group of talent. Equality of opportunity is essential for the maintenance of high standards and the provision of the highest quality service to clients. We have comprehensive and robust policies and procedures in place to ensure that there is no discrimination against prospective pupils, pupils, members, clients, or staff on grounds of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion or belief.
How to Apply
Aspiring barristers are invited to apply to Chambers between Wednesday 3 January 2024 and Wednesday 7 February 2024 using the Pupillage Gateway application system to search for the relevant Pupillage Vacancy and selecting ‘Apply for this pupillage’.
In addition to the standardised Bar Council questionnaire, candidates will be asked to respond to the following questions from Chambers:
- Why do you want to be a barrister? (Character limit 1000)
- Advocacy / the ability to persuade is a key skill required for a career at the Bar. Why do you consider you have the persuasiveness necessary to succeed at the Bar? (Please provide specific examples, if possible) (Character limit 1000)
- A career in the Bar is academically challenging. What evidence can you provide to demonstrate your academic ability? (Character limit 1000)
- To succeed as a barrister demands exceptional resilience. Giving examples where possible, how do you recover from setbacks and adapt to difficulties? (Character limit 1000)
- Effective cooperation is a key characteristic of a career in the Bar. How do you ensure any team you are in works effectively? (Character limit 1000)
- Why do you want to apply for a pupillage specifically at Landmark Chambers? (Character limit 1000)
- Which of Landmark's practice areas are you most interested in and how are you able to demonstrate that interest? (Character limit 1000).
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