Our principal areas of practice include arbitration, banking and financial services, civil fraud and investigations, commercial litigation, company, insolvency and restructuring, pensions, professional liability, property, trusts, tax, probate and estates.

You should possess high intellectual ability, excellent communication skills and a strong motivation to do commercial chancery work. You need to be mature and confident, have the ability to work with others and analyse legal problems clearly, demonstrating commercial and practical good sense. We have a minimum requirement of a 2.1 degree in law or another subject, and we have a track record of taking on GDL students, as well as undergraduate law students, as pupils and as tenants.

We offer up to four 12-month pupillages. We provide an excellent pupillage and operate a well-structured programme aimed at providing you with a broad experience of commercial chancery practice. You will sit with different pupil supervisors with whom you will be able to develop your skills.

A key feature of pupillage programme is that our pupils are not in competition with one another for a tenancy. We assess each pupil solely on their own abilities and performance, with a view to taking on both pupils as tenants at the end of their time with us.

Pupillage applications should be made via the Pupillage Gateway. Please refer to the Gateway for all relevant dates.

We run four mini-pupillage weeks per year. Please visit our website for an application form and further information on when to apply.

A pupillage award of £75,000 is offered to all pupils. The award is payable in monthly installments and up to £30,000 of the award may be drawn down during the BPTC year.