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Senior Practice Manager

Salary: Competitive

Location: Lincoln’s Inn, London

XXIV Old Buildings is seeking an ambitious, highly experienced, and dynamic Senior Practice Manager to join our clerking team. This is a crucial leadership role, reporting to the Senior Clerk and Deputy Senior Clerk and overseeing a dedicated group of barristers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a first-class clerking service, driving practice development, leading a junior clerking team, and contributing to the overall strategic success of Chambers. This is a hands-on position requiring exceptional commercial acumen, managerial skills, and a deep understanding of barristers’ practices and legal business development.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Practice Management: Proactively managing and developing the practices of your group, including complex fee negotiation, brief allocation, and diligent diary and work-in-progress oversight.
• Team Leadership: Taking direct responsibility for the performance, training, and development of junior clerks and practice assistants within your assigned group.
• Business Development: Actively identifying and executing opportunities to grow barristers’ practices through client relationships, marketing contribution, and internal strategy.
• Operational Excellence: Ensuring adherence to all clerking standards, quality systems, and regulatory requirements
• Senior Support: Acting as an ambassador for Chambers and providing essential cover and support to the Senior Clerk and Deputy Senior Clerk during periods of absence.

The Ideal Candidate Will:

• Possess prior experience as a Senior Practice Manager/Team Leader or significant prior experience as a practice manager in a barristers’ chambers.
• Demonstrate strong commercial and financial acumen, particularly in fee negotiation and billing processes.
• Be a proven team leader, motivator, and developer of junior staff.
• Have outstanding interpersonal skills, capable of building effective relationships with clients, barristers, and all members of the administration team.
• Be highly organised, proactive, and meticulous in administrative and diary management.

A full job description can be downloaded here.

To apply, please send your CV and a brief covering email to [email protected] by Friday 31 October.