Junior Barristers' Clerk

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom ABC Chambers Solutions Full time

**Junior Clerk**

£ Competitive salary plus excellent benefits

Our client is widely recognised as a leading set in its core specialist areas of commercial litigation, insolvency, pensions, private client and trusts, property, professional negligence, and arbitration. Chambers is able to offer specialist barristers at all levels of seniority and across the spectrum of commercial and chancery work. Members work hard to build and maintain strong long-term relationships with their clients, including leading UK and international law firms, multinational corporations, major organisations, private companies, and individuals.

**Hours**:8.30am to 5.30pm or 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday

**Reporting to**:Senior Practice Manager

**Job Summary/ Key Accountabilities**:

- Always Providing an effective and efficient practice management service to all members of chambers (and additionally to members outside of that when required, in agreement with your Senior Practice Manager, the practice managers in that team and/or the Practice Director)
- Assisting the Senior Practice Manager, Practice Manager and Practice Assistant in the day-to
- day smooth functioning of the practices of the team of barristers designated to your team
- Deputising for the Practice Manager or Practice Assistant as and when required, where agreed in advance with the Senior Practice Manager
- Ensuring that chambers always remain within the requirements of the BSB Handbook

**Responsibilities**:
**General clerking function**
- Ensuring at all times, via your own personal conduct, that chambers’ clerking function remains within the requirements of the BSB Handbook.
- Answering telephone or video calls in a timely and professional manner as per established quality standard procedures (including the calls to colleagues on other teams if and when required)
- Entering instructions/case related papers and any other notes as may be necessary on the LEX system, in respect of your team members, and ensuring they are passed immediately to the relevant member of chambers or other clerking members of your team for action/information.
- Ensuring your team complies at all times with its established best practice procedures in respect of money laundering, complaints, conflict searches and fair distribution of work requirements.
- Professional management of the diaries of all members of your team as and when required.
- Ensuring that a high quality level of support is received by members of chambers at all times in relation to their attendances at court and at conferences: for example, but not limited to, ensuring the time and location of hearings/conferences is communicated well in advance; ensuring where necessary the prompt delivery to and collection from court of papers; the copying of authorities; allocating/agreeing in advance which clerk will attend court with the barrister if assistance is required; and any other reasonable barrister requests and requirements in relation to the above;
- Ensuring, as and when required, the prompt exchange and lodging of Skeleton Arguments and lodging of Minutes of Order and associated record keeping in line with the Code of Conduct.
- Ensuring full details of any requests for fee quotes for members of your team are passed on to another member of the clerking team as soon as is practicable and recording full details of any quotes given on the LEX system when it has been agreed that you should give the quote yourself.
- Taking full details of any fee disputes as and when they arise and promptly referring matters onto the other clerks in your team or to the fees team for consideration.

**Junior clerking/support function**
- Collecting/receiving and distributing the DX/general post each morning.
- Organising, franking and taking the general outgoing post to the post box each evening, the outgoing DX to the main Document Exchange building and ensuring requests for special/recorded deliveries are dealt with efficiently as and when they arise.
- Ensuring the timely collection of deliveries from the main reception throughout the day as and when informed.
- Assisting in the process of the regular and timely return of completed paperwork back to solicitors and other clients (or confidential shredding if agreed with the barrister/client) and in particular ensuring the build-up of boxes and papers in corridors is kept to a minimum at all times.
- Assisting with the regular post-runs around the buildings and the daily locking up of chambers (in the absence of the Junior Administrator) and undertaking the final post run each day.

**Other/General**
- Deputising for the Practice Assistant in their absence as and when agreed with the Senior Practice Manager and/or Practice Manager.
- Ensuring that inter-team co-operation and good working relationships are developed/maintained with the other teams and ensuring that support is both provided and requested from the other teams as and when necessary, in order to ensure that the practice manage

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