Pupillage at Fahri, Azzat & Co.
Fahri, Azzat & Co. is a friendly and diverse firm with an enviable reputation for legal and advocacy excellence. We are a multi-disciplinary firm, covering a wide range of work including most aspects of civil, criminal and family litigation. All of our pupils can expect to undertake a mixed practice, giving them broad-based advocacy experience at the start of their career. We believe that early experience across practice areas, on our feet and in our written advocacy, provides firm foundations for success in any specialism. We offer some of the best structured and most enjoyable pupillages at the Bar for two or three candidates each year.
We are looking for highly motivated, hardworking applicants who have the potential to be exceptional advocates. We pride ourselves on the investment we place in our pupils. The structure of pupillage at Fahri, Azzat & Co. ensures that all pupils receive training in civil, criminal and family law, with a unique arrangement that allows pupils to choose a practice area for their last six months of pupillage and tailor their pupillage to their interests. Our pupillage programme is designed to develop and challenge, equipping candidates with the skills and experience needed to enjoy a successful and stimulating career.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the necessary intellectual and analytical skills to be able to understand and advise on complex legal issues across a variety of practice areas. You will need first-rate communication skills, both oral and written. Added to this, a significant proportion of the Firm’s work, particularly criminal work, is predominantly in Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam. You will therefore be expected to regularly travel to court complexes whilst managing a demanding schedule. We need to be sure that our pupils are truly committed to life at the Bar and life in our Firm in particular, with all the rigours and hard work that this involves.
We welcome applications from candidates with a qualifying law degree and give no special preference to those with local law degrees. We are happy to consider those embarking on the Bar as a second career. It is not a pre-requisite to have studied company or insolvency law, although those candidates who have had the opportunity to do so are generally expected to have done so.
It is not necessary to have undertaken a mini-pupillage in the Firm, although we encourage those with an interest in pupillage at this Firm to apply to do so. Successful pupillage candidates who have not done a mini-pupillage may be invited to do a short, non-assessed mini-pupillage in the Firm in order to help them decide whether to take up a pupillage offer.
Our application process consists of two interviews, the first involving the discussion of a case and the second a hypothetical legal problem. We usually interview 10 to 14 people during the course of interviews. The cases and problems are chosen with a view to being fair to all applicants, regardless of their experience of law. The interviews seek to test, amongst other things, analytical skill and reasoning.