How does a work placement compare to a pupillage?
The Fox Scholarship work placement is similar to a pupillage.  A pupillage is a year‐long training contract in a set of chambers that all aspiring barristers in England must complete after finishing the Bar course. The odds of securing pupillage are long, especially at a prestigious commercial set, as these sets only take on about two dozen pupils each year in all of London. Pupils sit in various barristers’ rooms, shadowing them in their practice and completing various tasks assigned, from research to drafting memos and briefs. The Fox Scholarship is comparable to a pupillage, in that the scholar is not eligible for employment at its conclusion, and it provides the scholar the opportunity to sit at multiple sets of chambers.