Vacancies

Maitland Chambers – 12 Months – October 2024

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to increasing the diversity of chambers (alongside the commercial and chancery bar as a whole), and applications from members of groups presently underrepresented at the commercial and chancery bar are strongly encouraged.

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:

• Please provide any available evidence of your experience and ability in the use of oral communication to argue, persuade and present complex information effectively. (Character limit 1750)
• Please provide any available evidence of your ability to make effective decisions using sound judgment. (Character limit 1250)
• Please provide any available evidence of your ability: (a) to manage a workload effectively by independent planning, organisation and good time management when under pressure; (Character limit 1000) (b) to work effectively with a range of different sorts of people. (Character limit 1000)        
• In relation to each of the Higher Education qualifications which you have set out in Section 2 - Education, please set out (i) the marks which you achieved in each paper or course undertaken and (ii) a short explanation, where this is not obvious, of how those marks and your overall grade relate to the degree classifications (1st; 2(i); 2(ii); 3rd) commonly used in UK higher education. (Character limit 2500)     
• Are there any other matters, not mentioned above, which you should disclose to us when making your application? If none, please write "none". (Character limit 5000)

About AETO and Structure of Pupillage

Maitland Chambers is one of the UK’s largest commercial chancery chambers and we are consistently ranked as a leader in our field. Our core areas of practice include commercial and chancery disputes, insolvency and restructuring, company, property, fraud and asset tracing, trusts, banking and financial services, partnership and professional negligence. We are based in London and our work includes both international and domestic litigation and arbitration, as well as a significant number of cases in offshore jurisdictions.

Any Other Relevant Information

Our first and second round interviews are on the fixed dates of Tuesday, 14 March and Wednesday, 22 March 2023 respectively. Interviews will be held on those dates in person.

We accept applications from candidates who would be qualified to start pupillage in September 2024 (whether by completing Bar courses before then or by any other relevant qualification pathway). Save in exceptional circumstances candidates will need to have obtained, or to obtain in due course, a minimum upper second class degree or equivalent (albeit that applications can be made on predicted grades). Please note that unsuccessful applicants for pupillage may apply for a second time in a subsequent year; however, we do not accept further applications from candidates who have applied twice previously.

Further information in relation to the selection process, and pupillage at Maitland, may be found in the Pupillage section of our website: https://www.maitlandchambers.com/join-us/pupillage.