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 recruit the best applicants and ensure that our pupils have an excellent foundation from which to start a successful career at the Bar.

Award

Our pupillage award for 2011 is £60,000, comprising

  • £22,500 paid as a grant at the start of your BVC year 
  • £22,500 paid in the first 6 months of pupillage
  • £15,000 guaranteed earnings during your  second six months*

 

*our experience is that second six pupils earn significantly more

Training

We offer pupillage only to those with real potential to become 2tg tenants. During your pupillage we ensure, by training and assessment, that you acquire and demonstrate the skills and excellence required to obtain an offer of tenancy. There is no quota, hence you are not in competition with your fellow pupils. Reviews at regular intervals monitor progress and enable queries and problems to be resolved at an early stage.

We expect to take on all of our pupils who meet our requirements for tenancy at 2tg – and we have an excellent record in this regard.

Variety

2tg has 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 practice areas on the main website for further details.

Pupils have three different pupil supervisors during pupillage and work for other members of chambers.  You will experience as much of the variety of chambers' work as possible during your 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.

 

How to apply

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  look for pupils who will continue and maintain our tradition of excellence.

 

We invite the 40 best applicants to a selection day.

Assessment includes 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 informally to members of chambers at different stages of their careers.  Applicants find the day enjoyable as well as challenging!

 

We invite the best 15 applicants back for individual interviews. 

It is not necessary for applicants for pupillage to have done a mini-pupillage with us. However, 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.