Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun etc. See pupilage, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law A form of apprenticeship for prospective barristers

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Examples

  • Her dream of working as a barrister has never-materialised because she has been unable to get a firm to take her on for a 'pupillage' - the year's on-the-job training that is the final stage of qualification.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Her dream of working as a barrister has never-materialised because she has been unable to get a firm to take her on for a 'pupillage' - the year's on-the-job training that is the final stage of qualification.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Her dream of working as a barrister has never-materialised because she has been unable to get a firm to take her on for a 'pupillage' - the year's on-the-job training that is the final stage of qualification.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Barristers must undergo a one year ‘pupillage’, which is much more like an apprenticeship.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Combined B.A. / J.D. Programs 2009

  • In having the training contract/pupillage period immediately after law school, the system also admits what many of the posters above raise: that a newly-minted lawyer straight from law school often lacks life experience, soft skills and maturity.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Combined B.A. / J.D. Programs 2009

  • “Though in return he had to undertake never to do pupillage or to practise,” added TheCreep.

    BabyBarista - Times Online - WBLG 2009

  • BabyBarista is a fictional account of a pupil barrister undergoing the trials of pupillage at the English Bar.

    BabyBarista - Times Online - WBLG 2009

  • Indiana he looked upon with ineffable contempt; the incapacity she had shewn during the short time she was under his pupillage, had convinced him of the futility of her whole sex, from which he held Eugenia to be a partial exception; and Miss Margland, who never spoke to him but in a voice of haughty superiority, and whom he never answered, but with an air of solemn superciliousness, was his rooted aversion.

    Camilla 2008

  • Da Geek exemplifies Simon Myerson's advice in arguing for the law to be different - I'm not sure his language is to be recommended in pupillage interviews, though.

    Reactions to Dacre 2008

  • Da Geek exemplifies Simon Myerson's advice in arguing for the law to be different - I'm not sure his language is to be recommended in pupillage interviews, though.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

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