This is called pupillage, and arranging it may present a problem.

You may make your pupillage contract for six months in each of two different chambers.

After six more months of pupillage, he or she can commence full practice.

Following a period of pupillage Griffiths was called to the bar in 1980.

In the second six months of pupillage, each pupil is responsible for their own case load.

After graduation from in 1997, Chan started a pupillage at a local law firm, only to leave six months later.

Therefore opportunities for earning outside of pupillage are limited by time constraints.

Pupillage is recognised as a difficult and demanding time.

He then resumed his legal career with a one-year pupillage, before going up to Cambridge.

One who wishes to become a practising barrister must first obtain a "pupillage".

No-one would be without pupillage and having to apply during exams.

The terms and conditions of the pupillage or training contract vary from department to department.

Mountain undertook three years of pupillage with an engineer in Switzerland.

During the first six months of pupillage the fledgling barrister is not allowed to accept briefs.

If he closed his eyes, he was back in his own pupillage.

Each pupillage team conducts one program for the Inn each year.

In many chambers, this is the more relaxed part of the pupillage, as the pupil has little responsibility.

However, before they can practise independently they must first undertake 12 months of pupillage.

After pupillage, the new barrister must find a seat or "tenancy" in a set of chambers.

But that's not really the point of pupillage as far as I see it.'

My Brief Career, an account of his pupillage at a barristers' chambers.

When pupillage is over the young barrister may join a local Bar instead of practising in London.

Once your pupillage has ended you must complete a minimum of 12 hours of continuing professional development each year.

"Maybe we should start doing that for pupillage interviews," said HeadofChambers.

They then complete twelve months of unpaid work, known as pupillage, for a practising barrister at that person's chambers.