Barrister Clerk

**Barrister Clerk - Central London**

**Salary: £24,000 - £28,000**

**The Role**:
The Barristers Clerk will work as an administrator within barrister chambers. Keep chamber diaries up-to-date, calculate and negotiate fees for the work carried out and ensure every member is informed of their commitments.

**Duties Include**:

- Negotiating and agreeing fees for cases
- Appropriately allocating cases to barristers, taking into account experience, availability, skills and specialisms
- Planning barristers’ workloads
- Negotiating and agreeing a timetable of required work
- Managing financial accounts
- Undertaking relevant research
- Carrying out administrative and business management activities
- Liaising with solicitors and the Crown Prosecution Service
- Organising meetings between clients, barristers and instructing solicitors

**What we are looking for**:

- Smart and professional
- Reliable
- A good communicator with an ability to get on well with people at all levels of seniority and from all walks of life
- Willing and able to cope with an active and demanding role, to undertake varied duties (including outdoor duties such as delivering papers to courts) and to prioritise tasks
- Friendly and helpful.
- Other qualities include an excellent telephone manner; IT skills and a fantastic team spirit.

**The Company**:
Our client specialises in Immigration, Civil, Commercial, Bankruptcy, Housing, Professional Negligence, Shipping/ Marine Law, Arbitration, Mediation, Employment, Family and Criminal Law.

**_Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003._