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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

To contact our Singapore office, please contact our BD Director, Asia, Rachel Foxton. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

Twenty Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200
DX 0009 Lond/Chan Lane

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03
Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

To contact our Singapore office, please contact our BD Director, Asia, Rachel Foxton. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

Twenty Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200
DX 0009 Lond/Chan Lane

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03
Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Mini pupillage

Selection Criteria

We apply the general selection criteria below at all stages of recruitment, with adjustment appropriate to particular stages as follows:

  • Prospective mini-pupils and pupils. Where it is unrealistic to expect a candidate already to have the requisite level of attainment, we look for potential.
  • Prospective lateral recruits. We also take account of the following: (a) whether the applicant has a successful, substantial and reasonably portable practice; (b) whether the applicant’s fields of practice, experience and seniority accord with our overall strategy for recruitment and business development.


General selection criteria

We aim to recruit individuals who possess, to a standard of excellence, the knowledge, skills and attributes required by the Professional Statement and necessary for a successful career at Twenty Essex. We attach particular importance to the following:

1
Legal ability, intelligence and analytical skills
  • A strong knowledge and understanding of relevant principles of law and procedure, coupled with excellent research skills.
  • Outstanding intelligence, in particular the ability to apply legal principles intelligently, also showing common sense, commercial awareness and good judgement.
  • The ability to analyse, in depth, complex facts and law, so as to identify the real issues, and devise appropriate, client-tailored, solutions or strategies.
2
Advocacy and communication skills
  • An exceptional ability to communicate (both in writing and orally) in a manner which is clear, precise, concise and well-structured.
  • Highly effective, eloquent and persuasive advocacy skills (both in writing and orally).
  • The ability to engage suitably and responsively with different audiences, and appropriately adapt styles and methods of communication.
3
Practice management and development
  • A commitment to building a successful practice in Chambers, devoting time and effort as required to effective business development.
  • The ability to manage a practice effectively and deliver consistently excellent client service.
  • High levels of motivation, self-reliance, determination, and organisational skills.
4
Working with others
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a team, taking a leadership role where appropriate.
  • Excellent inter-personal skills, and the ability to inspire confidence in other lawyers, clients and team members.
  • Respect for others, courtesy and sensitivity, regardless of background or circumstances.
5
Personal and professional standards and values
  • Honesty, integrity, independence and courage.
  • Compliance with professional standards and duties.
  • Active pursuit of equality and respect for diversity.

Our mini-pupillage programme continues during the pandemic without any reduction in the number of mini-pupillages offered. We are very conscious of the difficulties currently facing applicants and consider it essential to offer you the best opportunity we can to get to know chambers. The application deadlines are at the end of November, February and June each year.

Mini-pupillages take place over two days. First, you will meet your supervisor, who will give you an insight into the atmosphere and work of chambers as well as providing an (optional) applications clinic to review your draft Gateway form and help you prepare for interviews.

Later that day, you will speak to a member of our practice management team and one of our current pupils. Virtual mini-pupillages are entirely unassessed, save in respect of any concern in relation to criterion 5 (personal and professional standards and values).

Applications for pupillage are only considered if the candidate has completed, or been offered, a mini pupillage in Chambers.

Any queries in respect of pupillage or mini-pupillage should be sent to pupillage@twentyessex.com.

How to apply

When to apply

What to expect from mini-pupillage

  • Recruitment

    • Application form