Practice Leader - City of London, Greater London, United Kingdom - 9 KING S BENCH WALK

Description

24 days annual leave plus all public holidays.
Flexible arrangements are available, to work from home for short periods during each month, after a probationary period is completed satisfactorily
9 KBW is a long established, well regarded and very busy Criminal, Regulatory and Immigration set.

Our members are on the CPS Advocate Panels, both general and specialist at all levels including Level 4 for the CPS, the RASSO and Extradition Panels, and many of our members deal with regulatory cases where hearings are in regard to complex, sensitive and exceptional allegations.

Our members have a wealth of experience of both leading and junior work, dealing with the most serious and complex cases, and we are rapidly expanding our junior team and in recent years we have taken on all of our three pupils each year.

Those pupils rapidly find themselves in jury trials and we expect our clerking team to provide support and guidance in particular to those at the junior end.

For this reason, and because of the likelihood of a further increase in membership in the coming months, we need another Practice Manager to join our team, to ensure that we can continue to efficiently manage the level of diary work and accompanying billing.

We are looking for a Practice Manager who has preferably a minimum of 2 years experience in the job responsibilities set out below and who is fully conversant with, and confident in, assisting with the management of Chambers diary, and ideally in assisting the Senior Clerk with the practice management of members.

However, although experience of billing criminal fees will be an advantage, it is not an essential requirement.

Some experience of criminal clerking is however essential and regulatory and immigration experience is desirable, but not a requirement.

Chambers undertakes instructions from Direct Public Access clients and knowledge of this type of work is also desirable, but not essential, as training can be provided through both the Bar Council training courses and by our highly experienced Senior Clerk.

Working with the clerking team on diary management for all members and pupils; booking and managing cases in Criminal, Regulatory, Immigration and Direct Public Access matters.

Liaising with Instructing Solicitors and agencies regarding the allocation of suitable Counsel, both Leading and Junior and where multiple Counsel are required.

Assisting the Senior Clerk with the management of member practices. Assisting with general fee billing and collection.
Deputising for the Senior Clerk, where required, on the Tenancy and Pupillage Committee in dealing with the recruitment of Tenants and Probationary Tenants
A knowledge of the MLC software system is desirable.

If you would like a confidential discussion about this role, or any aspect of Chambers services, please contact Dave Fardon, Senior Clerk and he will be very happy to discuss with you what we can offer to the right applicant.

Copies of Chambers Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Dignity at Work, Parental Leave, Flexible Working and Reasonable Adjustments Policies are available upon request.