Pupillage Gateway deadline
Pupillage to commence 2027
31
Aug 2025
Mini-pupillage deadline 2025
More info
We are a leading commercial chancery set of chambers ranked at the top of our field in the legal directories. We provide advocacy and legal advice across a huge range of business disputes, from major international litigation to domestic contractual and property disputes. We are known for the combination of high-quality instructions we receive, the breadth of our work and the volume of advocacy that we do.
We undertake a full range of commercial chancery work, which essentially involves business, finance and property. Our core areas of practice include commercial litigation and arbitration, civil fraud, company & partnership, insolvency & asset recovery and offshore & trusts, with a number of leading specialists in related fields. We appear across a full range of UK civil courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court and Privy Council as well as in Caribbean, Asian and other jurisdictions.
Our typical recruit possesses a sharp intellect, strong commercial awareness, and thrives on the challenge of both oral and written advocacy. Academically we look for an upper second class degree as a minimum. You must have an aptitude for and general enjoyment of complex legal argument. We welcome applications from both law and non-law graduates and recognise that training in other disciplines can be good preparation for a career at the Bar. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or age.
We offer up to four 12-month pupillages. You will sit with four different barristers during your time in chambers and so have the opportunity to see a wide range of practices. At regular intervals during your pupillage you will participate in advocacy exercises that take the form of mock hearings, which are prepared in advance from a set of papers, just as in practice. Senior members of chambers act as the tribunal, probing your argument during the ‘hearing’ and then providing detailed feedback afterwards. There is no limit to the number of tenancy offers we can make in each year; therefore our pupils are not in competition with one another, if you are of the requisite standard, you will be offered tenancy.
Maitland Chambers is a member of the Pupillage Gateway.
Applications are considered three times a year; please see our website for current deadlines and details of how to apply.
A pupillage award (£85,000 for pupillage starting in September 2027) is offered to all pupils in chambers. Up to £30,000 of the award may be drawn down in advance for Bar course fees or during the Bar course year. We operate a cashflow assistance scheme during the early stages of practice.
Practice Areas
Extra info
7 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London, WC2A 3SZ
Phone: 020 7406 1200
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.maitlandchambers.com
Phone: 020 7406 1200
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.maitlandchambers.com
| Mini-pupillages: | Yes |
| Minimum qualification: | 2.1 degree |
