Law Work Experience Opportunity 4 New Square Chambers

Work Experience

Chambers offers unpaid work experience placements to young people aged 16 years and above who are considering a career in a set of chambers. These placements are intended for people who do not wish to apply for a mini-pupillage or may not yet be in a position to apply for a mini-pupillage. While individual members of chambers retain the right on a purely individual basis to have people shadowing them, chambers encourages applications for work experience placements. There is no need to apply on an individual basis for a work experience placement if your school or local education authority arranges work experience; such applications should be made in the usual way to Charlotte Goodman.

These placements are designed to provide a valuable introduction to the work of a barrister and to chambers generally. The work experience programme will include a range of different duties from photocopying and filing to delivering barristers’ papers and dealing with post. There will typically also be the opportunity to attend court.

Chambers is committed to providing equality of opportunity. We encourage applications from members of ethnic minorities, students at state schools and other groups that are traditionally under-represented in chambers. We are willing to make reasonable adjustments for disabled candidates. Chambers will reimburse reasonable travel expenses.

All applicants must fill in the Work Placement Application Form and the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Questionnaire both of which may be downloaded from this website.

The forms must be printed and submitted by post (Work Experience Placements, 4 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3RJ) by the deadline dates set out below.

All applicants should preferably have at least 8 GCSEs at grades A* to C including at least A grades in maths and english (language or literature) or equivalent qualifications and grades.

All applications must be supported by a written reference from a responsible person who is not a relative or close friend of the applicant. The reference must state the period over which the referee has known the applicant, in what capacity they have known the applicant and that the referee considers that the applicant is a fit and proper person to attend a work experience placement in chambers.

The periods during which work experience placements are offered and the deadlines for applications for those periods are as follows:

25 March 2012 to 19 April 2013: deadline 8 February 2013

15 July 2012 to 6 September 2013: deadline 31 May 2013

All applicants must apply for a work experience placement for one period only and must specify all dates in that period when they are not free to attend. Applications may be made at any time prior to the relevant deadline. Successful applicants will be notified by email as soon as possible after the deadline date of the dates for their placement.

There are limited work experience places and they will be allocated on a strictly first come first served system based upon the date of the application.

Work experience placements last two consecutive days.  

The dress code for work experience placements is smart/office attire.