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 the furtherance of equality and diversity at the Bar. Increasing diversity at Landmark is a top priority and forms part of a co-ordinated strategy across all Chambers’ Committees. We are an equal opportunities employer and we have implemented and developed several initiatives designed to promote equality, diversity and wellbeing. We encourage and welcome applications from women, people of minority ethnic origin and people with disabilities, as well as candidates from other groups which are underrepresented in the legal sector.
How to Apply
Aspiring barristers are invited to apply to Chambers between Wednesday 4 January 2023 and Wednesday 8 February 2023 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:
- 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 have a particular interest in property law and how are you able to demonstrate it? (Character limit 1000)
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
Landmark Chambers, consistently ranked as a top tier set by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500, specialises in planning, property, environmental, public and rating and valuation law.
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 written and oral advocacy assessments 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 all eight pupils from the past three years, we have a good 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 pupillages or tenancies elsewhere.
Any Other Relevant Information
Making an Application
Candidates are asked to note that the following dates have been provisionally set for this year's recruitment process:
- 27 March 2023 – Assessment
- 26 April 2023 – Interviews in Chambers
- 5 May 2023 – Offers of pupillage for October 2024.
Following a review of all applications, we contact candidates, either to invite them to sit an assessment or to inform them that their application has been unsuccessful.
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