...except it isn't, really. I'd be very surprised if The Other Pupil and I don't both get recommended to chambers. And if we do, well, we're both good and we're not really directly in competition as we work in different areas of law. We could both be taken on. With the way the work looks at the moment, I'm probably in a slightly better position, but that's no reflection on her (or me) at all, it's just luck. The most recent tenant did eighteen months of pupillage here and was taken on only six months ago. There is undoubtedly a question about how much junior family work there is in chambers. But I don't do much family work at all, I specialise in other areas, and I've been fairly busy.
I've heard that many family sets are simply not recruiting at the moment. Apparently Coram Chambers, for example, have turned around to their three pupils (paid £20,000 each) and said to them that they are not recruiting this year. I've heard that our chambers are interviewing twelve candidates for third sixes, which suggests there are a lot of 'floaters' out there.
There are a lot of nervous junior family law barristers out there, waiting to see how the legal aid reforms work out.
Am I kidding myself? Trying to convince myself that there's no race here? Ask me again in a month.
If one or both of us are recommended, it goes to a vote. It is a simply majority vote here, but in many chambers there is a two-thirds requirement.
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Good luck, I have every confidence that you'll get a worthwhile tenancy either there or somewhere else. Although to be fair, I base this confident prediction on absolutely no inside knowledge. I will be on tenterhooks for you for the time being.
Good lUCK!
When will you know?
Don't keep us in suspence...
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