Pupillage Vacancy Information
About Landmark Chambers
Landmark is a leading chambers based in London offering integrated advocacy and advice in planning, property, environmental, public, local government, and 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 consistently regarded as one of the leading sets in our other main areas of work and recently won Real Estate Set of the Year and Planning/Environmental Set of the Year at the prestigious Chambers UK Bar Awards.
As well as offering junior tenants access to some of the most high-profile cases in our core areas, Landmark prides itself on providing an excellent support infrastructure, investing in ongoing training and development for all members and providing a dedicated Practice Management Team designed to assist new barristers establishing their careers.
Landmark barristers have been involved in some of the most significant cases and inquiries in recent years, including Crossrail and HS2, Marks and Spencer v SSLUHC, Friends of the Earth and South Lakeland Action Group v West Cumbria Mining Ltd, the Supreme Court property cases Fearn and others v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery and Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority, the Infected Blood, Post Office Horizon IT and UK Covid-19 Inquiries and the infringement of LGBTQ+ rights case Jones v AG Trinidad & Tobago.
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 for the property pupillage. If you wish to apply for one of the two non-property pupillages available, please see Landmark’s other 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 seven of eight 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 Thursday 2 January 2025 and Thursday 6 February 2025 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? Please also tell us why you want to apply for pupillage at Landmark. (Character limit 1,000)
- What experience do you have of effective oral advocacy? Any examples of public speaking will be considered. (Character limit 1,000)
- Is AI an ethical threat to the legal profession? (Character limit 1,000)
- To succeed as a barrister demands exceptional resilience. Please give us an example of when you have demonstrated resilience and had to adapt to difficulties/setbacks. (Character limit 1,000)
- Effective cooperation is a key characteristic of a career in the Bar. Please provide an example of when you have worked effectively with others to achieve a successful outcome. (Character limit 1,000).
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