Profile of Chambers

Littleton Chambers is a long-established civil set, specialising in employment law, commercial litigation, and professional negligence. We are acknowledged as being a top class set in each of our main practice areas. Our success is based upon both the desire to maintain high professional standards and a willingness to embrace change.

Chambers prides itself on the skills of its tenants, not only as advocates and advisers on the law, but also for their practical and unstuffy approach. This creates an environment which is industrious, supportive and down to earth.

Areas of Expertise

Employment law including discrimination, unfair dismissal and whistleblowing; Commercial law incorporating banking, commercial fraud, company and insolvency disputes, litigation arising in the entertainment, media and sports industries, as well as public law claims; Professional negligence, including claims against legal, financial and medical professionals; and Mediation and arbitration.

We have particular expertise in the business aspects of employment law, such as restrictive covenants, team move injunctions and bonus disputes. We are ranked in band one in both of the leading legal directories (Chambers & Partners and Legal 500) for our employment work with Chambers & Partners recording that “this set demonstrates quality throughout its ranks, offering “top-drawer specialist barristers” and “excellent junior juniors”.

Our tenants feature in many of the leading cases and regularly appear in the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords and the ECJ.

Pupils

We take a considerable amount of care in choosing our pupils. We like to take on pupils who not only have good academic skills, but who show a flair for advocacy, have the ability to understand practical commercial issues and, importantly, have the interpersonal skills to provide the qualities that are expected of the modern day Bar.

We believe that fair remuneration is important. Our pupils receive a £40,000 pupillage award and keep all second six earnings. In recent years, second six pupils have typically earned in excess of £10,000. £10,000 of the award can be drawn down a year early.

Application Details

Chambers is a member of the Pupillage Portal. Offers of pupillage are made as early as possible (within the Pupillage Portal timetable), and where appropriate, in the academic year before Bar Finals.

We generally make our offers on the basis of an assessed mini-pupillage which forms part of the pupillage application process. Mini-pupillages are not offered outside this process. We hope that by the end of their mini-pupillage, potential pupils will have gained an insight into the working of Chambers