“Mini-pupillages are essential for getting a pupillage in the end and most sets would not look at a candidate without them,” says Brick Court Chambers co-head Jonathan Hirst QC (pictured).
Following last year’s creation of PRIME by a group of leading law firms the Bar in March announced its own bid to increase socio-economic diversity with the ‘Pegasus Access Scheme’. The initiative is not a direct counter-point to PRIME as it is focused on forging a direct path to pupillage for under-graduates rather than raising aspiration by introducing relatively under-privileged school children to the legal profession.
