We are currently recruiting energetic, experienced and able prospective tenants at all Junior levels in the fields of Clinical Negligence, Tax, Professional Discipline, Personal Injury/Abuse, Inquests/Inquiries, and Public Law, due to the high volume of work from  leading Claimant and Defendant firms. Find out why and how to join us here.

Pupillage

1 Crown Office Row is committed to providing excellent training for pupils. We want each of our pupils to be a future star of the Bar.

You will quickly become involved in whatever your Pupil Supervisor is doing at the time, so be prepared to hit the ground running. You will be expected to contribute meaningfully – so please don’t expect a quiet life in the shadows providing administrative support. We are much more interested in your brain than your photocopying. As a friendly set you will get to know us, and more importantly, we will get to know you, in no time.

Want to know more? Watch our recent webinar ‘Pupillage Application Tips and Life at the Bar‘ here or see Legal Cheek’s Pupillage Survey 2021 which gave us the outstanding score of A for chambers overall with an A* for social life.

Deadline: Pupillage Gateway opens 3rd January 2024 and closes 7th February 2024. 

Mini-pupillage

The aim of our mini-pupillages is to help people to decide whether a career at the Bar is for them and to expose them to relevant and appropriate experience of our work to that end. The process of selection for mini-pupillage is entirely separate from the pupillage process and acceptance/rejection of an application for mini-pupillage is not an indication of the likely outcome of any application for pupillage.

Applications open on 30th November and close on the last day of February the following year.

Assessed Mini-pupillage

One Crown Office Row is committed to assisting the Bar to become as diverse and representative of society as possible. To this end, in 2015 we launched an assessed mini-pupillage scheme targeted at socio-economically disadvantaged applicants, which guaranteed a first-round interview for pupillage to those applicants who performed well in their assessments.

Staff Recruitment

For Clerks, we normally obtain candidates from two sources – the list of names maintained for this purpose by the Institute of Barristers Clerks (the IBC) and through specialist recruitment agencies such as “Chambers People” and “Gill Rees Legal”. For other staff, we may advertise in the national or London press (eg The Times or Evening Standard) and/or use a relevant recruitment agency. We will always seek to verify any stated academic and vocational qualifications and, once a position has been offered, request two references.

Tenant Recruitment

If we have a specific vacancy for an experienced practitioner, we shall advertise that fact in Counsel Magazine and, as may be appropriate, in any other legal or trade journal and/or the national press. The advertisement will set a clear deadline for applications.


All recruitment of tenants, pupils, clerks and staff, is conducted in a way to be fully compliant with the terms of our Equality & Diversity Policy. Our chambers has step-free access.