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Times
22-05-2025
- Times
Powerlifting blogger secures pupillage after 52 applications
A powerlifting legal blogger who is renowned for his online summaries of public law cases has finally been offered a pupillage place in chambers. It took four years of disappointment and 52 applications for Gabriel Tan to be offered a pupillage — the one-year barristers' training requirement — at Matrix Chambers. Tan, 30, will start the pupillage in October next year. He built momentum on 'legal Twitter', a network of social media profiles on X that are united by a love of pedantry about the law, where he posts as @finishedloading. Tan says the network, in which law students discuss topical legal matters with eminent silks, was 'massively' encouraging. He recalls that he became so prolific on the platform that at one stage he
Times
22-05-2025
- Business
- Times
City firms keep it in the family with in-house barrister training
Employed barristers working outside chambers form a fifth of the practising profession — and City law firms are increasingly training them in-house. The Government Legal Department and the Crown Prosecution Service are the largest providers of in-house pupillage, the 12-month training that must be completed to practise as a barrister. But over the past few years regulators, banks and just short of 40 law firms, ranging from high street practices including AHS Law and GT Stewart to larger ones such as Candey, DWF and Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen, have started to recruit pupils. Some even have in-house advocacy units that mirror the chambers model. Browne Jacobson was one of the first law firms to train pupils; since 2010 its advocacy team has grown to
