Pupillage at 2tg
What we offer
We offer one of the most generously funded, well structured and enjoyable pupillages at the Bar. We take pupillage very seriously: we aim to recruit the best applicants, and to ensure that our pupils have an excellent foundation from which to start a successful career at the Bar.
Award
Our pupillage award for 2009 is £45,000. This is made up of:
- A grant of £35,000, of which up to £10,000 can be taken in the BVC year.
- All of the remainder of the grant will be paid in instalments in the first six months of pupillage.
- A guarantee of earnings during the second six months of £11,000. In fact, our experience is that pupils in their second six months normally earn significantly more than this.
Training
We only offer pupillage to those we consider good enough to become tenants. It is our aim during pupillage to ensure, by training and assessment, that our pupils demonstrate the skills and excellence required to obtain an offer of tenancy. We do not operate a quota system when making tenancy decisions. You are not in competition with your fellow pupils. Reviews at regular intervals keep pupils posted on progress and enable queries and problems to be resolved at an early stage. We aim to take on all of our pupils who are good enough to be our tenants – and we have an excellent record in this regard.
Variety
2tg boasts a wide range of practice areas, across both commercial and common law work. Our commercial expertise includes: banking law and finance, commercial fraud, insurance and reinsurance, construction, private international and general commercial contractual disputes. Our common law specialisms include: professional negligence, personal injury, employment, clinical negligence and property damage. Please refer to the specialist areas on the main website for further details.
Pupils have three different pupil supervisors during pupillage, and will also do work for other members of chambers. Our aim is for pupils to experience as much of chambers' work as possible during their pupillage year.
A career in advocacy
At 2tg we believe that advocacy is of the utmost importance. Training with each of the three pupil supervisors is supplemented by in-house advocacy exercises and practical drafting sessions. Our pupils spend a high proportion of their time “on their feet” in court during their second six months running their own cases.
Application for pupillage
Applications are made in accordance with the OLPAS scheme (summer season). For further details of the OLPAS scheme please click here.
Selection of pupils is on merit and in accordance with the OLPAS rules and Chambers' Pupillage Selection Policy. Please click here for a copy of the selection criteria. We expect all applicants to have a strong academic background (at least a strong 2:1). Click here to download "What we look for in a pupil" which may help you in completing the OLPAS application. Above all, however, we are looking for pupils to continue and maintain our tradition of excellence.
We invite the 40 best applicants to a selection day. Assessment is by way of a series of exercises involving team activity, debates and written tests. It also provides the chance for you to find out about life at 2tg, the variety of practice, the structure of pupillage and the rewards of practice at the Bar. You will meet and talk to members of chambers at different stages of their careers. Our experience is that applicants find the day enjoyable as well as challenging.
On further consideration of references we will invite the best 15 applicants back for individual interviews, which will include a legal problem.
We do not require applicants for pupillage to have done a mini-pupillage with us. Nevertheless, we encourage prospective applicants to apply for a mini-pupillage to learn more about life at 2tg and a career at the Bar.
Chambers is committed to equal opportunity in the selection of pupils and tenants and regularly reviews its policies and practices to ensure that this is achieved.
