Assistant Practice Manager (1910)

Assistant Practice Manager (1910)
Enterprise Chambers
£Competitive

Enterprise Chambers are expanding their clerking team and recruiting two additional Assistant Practice Managers. As part of a wider restructuring, they are moving from two practice management teams to three, each comprising a Practice Manager and an Assistant Practice Manager. The new structure will form dedicated practice groups;

• Commercial and Business
• Insolvency and Company
• Property, Trusts & Probate

Each practice team will manage a specific group of barristers, providing a more tailored and responsive service to clients and members. This is an exciting time to join Chambers, as they strengthen their clerking offering and enhance career development opportunities within the team.

Assistant Practice Manager Job Description

The Assistant Practice Manager will assist their Senior Clerk and Practice Managers in the following roles:

Clerking:

• Developing sound knowledge of Chambers areas of practice and the practices of all individual members and keeping up to date with developments and market trends. Sharing this knowledge with other members of the clerking and business development team.
• Ensuring that the clerks room is considered to be the best at the Bar, offering a proactive, dynamic and efficient service to all members of Chambers (and specifically barristers within your team), solicitors and other professional clients at all times.
• Working collaboratively with the other clerks, ensuring that information and developments are consistently communicated.
• Line management, supervision and professional development of the junior clerks.
• Assisting the practice manager with practice development meetings with members of Chambers to establish a progressive and effective long-term approach to practice development and career targets (e.g. taking Silk). Including the preparation of the necessary material and proactively dealing with follow up.
• Providing estimates and quotations for work and negotiating fees.
• Professional management of the diaries of all members of your team (and all members in the event required)
• Preparing for and attending, as required, appointments to fix hearings in all divisions of the High Court and County Courts, and ensuring that all relevant details are fully recorded on the management system
• Ensuring that a high quality level of support is received by members of your team (and other members of chambers as necessary) 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; overseeing where necessary the prompt delivery to and collection from court of papers; the copying of authorities; and any other reasonable barrister requests and requirements in relation to the above
• Using the LEX system to oversee accurate record-keeping including data capture in relation to enquires/instructions/case descriptions, agreeing contracts, general case management and the generation of reports from this system as required.
• Ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements in the BSB handbook and all other professional fiscal and regulatory requirements relevant to the management of Chambers and the practices of individual members.
• Working collaboratively with the Fees Clerk in respect of credit control matters.
• Ensuring Chambers work allocation is done in a fair manor across all centres and in line with direction from the Fair Allocation of Work committee.
• Any other task which maybe required of you by the Senior Clerk

Business Development:

• Working collaboratively with the Senior Clerk, Practice Managers and Members to support the activities of Chambers business development initiatives, and support relevant marketing activities.
• Ensuring a coordinated approach to client relationships, identifying opportunities to match client needs to Chambers capabilities
• Being proactive in managing opportunities to cross-sell, improving internal communications and following up on agreed actions.
• Assisting in developing client communications and care mechanisms including regular client visits, feedback and satisfaction monitoring, service reviews and proactive discussions about improvements, and innovations to improve client service and relationships.
• Promoting Chambers generally and attending functions such as seminars and other marketing initiatives

General Management Responsibilities

• Being an active member of any sub-committees set up in Chambers, particularly those with a business development and/or marketing function.
• Ensuring that the clerking team always provides and maintains a first class, courteous and professional service.
• Contributing to the creation of an open culture between staff members and members of Chambers, one in which individuals feel able to share ideas and express opinions.
• Providing feedback to members and Chambers senior management on work undertaken by the clerking team. Reporting back on successful meetings with solicitors and other professional clients, sharing client and industry developments.

All applicants are requested to complete an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion form, available here

For all enquiries please contact:

Deadline for Applications: 14th May 2025

ABC Chambers Solutions LLP - 0203 890 8190 enquiries@abcllp.com

To apply for this role please e-mail a comprehensive CV and covering letter to one of the team or contact them directly for a confidential discussion:

Sarah Willshee sarah@abcllp.com | Georgina Sundown georgina@abcllp.com

All third-party applications will be forwarded to ABC Chambers Solutions.

ABC are committed to equality and to fostering diversity in our profession.

We will treat everyone equally and irrespective of their age, background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Please advise us in advance of the interview if you have any access needs (including those arising from neurodiversity) and/or require reasonable adjustments for the interview so that we can make appropriate arrangements.