The Pupillage Interview/Acceptance/Rejection Thread 2012

Not yet. In fact, I've only heard from one commercial set and that's to ask for references (!)

Good luck on the mini - app. I agree that nearly all the Non-PP chambers I've applied to have responded, either just by way of acknowledgement but also a lot with dates. I don't want to speak too soon but things seem a lot more organised this year.

12 KBW interview invites have been sent by e-mail.

Has anyone had confirmation of their application being received by 4 Paper Buildings? Thanks

Congratulations! I'm assuming that's an invite to it, not just a letter confirming the date?

I don't think I want to go home and check the post now.

Halwar:

DO: Do whatever they tell you to do, be helpful, get involved.
DON'T: Be shy, speak out during a conference, ask stupid questions, set fire to the Chambers.

Thank you Mini Pupil

You made me laugh. I wont burn the place down. I have only done one mini in my life and that was last week. Now I have an assessed mini coming as part of the pupillage process at a commercial set and an interview in view of another assessed mini all part of the portal process at another set. I do not know what is meant by assessed mini, whether I will be having questions thrown at me at short notice. My worry is do I need to brush up on my legal knowledge before I venture in? Or is the assessment based on photocopying skills, good manners, keenness and so on.

Assessed minis usually have some kind of work involved. Drafting something, problem question or a piece of research - something like that.

I would very strongly suggest that you have a firm grasp of the law behind the practice area of the set you've applied to - it will enable you to ask more relevant questions and look generally more competent.

I don't mean that you have to be an expert, but having university level contract under control could prove useful for a commercial set (obviously I don't know which set).

For instance, my passion is crime, so I consider it important to know the elements of the 'big' offences, to have a good grasp of vlarious evidential rules (hearsay, bad character, etc) and to have a solid understanding of criminal procedure in both the mags and the crown - it will just make assessed minis and interviews that little bit easier.

I do want to express my thanks to you Mini-Pupil. It is a big commercial set and they pretty much cover more than twenty practice areas but I am mainly interested in seven areas in which they are leaders. Thand God I still have all my revision notes from my Uni years and will read up a lot beforehands and just hope for the best. Thank you again.