Job Purpose:
- To manage and direct all clerking and non-clerking staff
- To provide strategic direction
- Responsible for the running and development
- Day to day management of all aspects staff, buildings, IT etc
Main Duties:
Diary and Practice Management for all members
- Allocating work to appropriate members
- Providing estimates for work to be done
- Supervising Court Listing arrangements
- Dealing promptly with complaints from solicitors in accordance with procedures and BSB and Bar Council rules, and maintaining complaints log – to be reviewed quarterly
- Review quarterly the allocation of work to monitored barristers
- Attending (or arrange clerking attendance) at all team meetings and publicity events and seminars
Fees and Finances
- Estimating, Negotiating and Agreeing fees for work to be done with barristers
- Recording in writing, by email or letter, fees agreement made
- Billing and recording work done, and where appropriate
- Chasing unpaid fees where appropriate by reference to Aged Debt reports
- Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date knowledge of fee rates and systems for areas of practice
- Assisting counsel with VAT calculations and self employed income tax calculations
Business Development and Marketing
- Discussing barristers’ practices on an individual and regular basis and oversee practice development meetings
- Promoting the work to solicitors and other professionals
- Providing Management Committee with practice information
- Visits to key-client solicitors
- Maintaining good working relationships with clients and other professionals
- Identifying new contacts/sources of work and liaising with Management Committee as to implementation of action plans, using initiative and foresight to anticipate changes in the profession
Staff Supervision
- Supervising all clerking staff
- Ensuring adequate staff cover in core hours
- Ensuring adequate cover in holiday periods and in cases of illness
- Ensuring clerking staff are properly trained, disciplining clerking staff and conducting bi-annual appraisals and reviews of staff performance and oversee appraisals of junior staff
General Administration
- Attending all Management Committee and meetings as required
- Conducting regular staff meetings
- Ensuring that all quality standards are maintained, including making sure that the computer system is being properly utilised to maximise the collection of fees
- Assisting in the setting of the annual budget
- Efficient and effective management of buildings and assets including planning maintenance programme, security, liaison with communication and IT consultants
- Attending at relevant Bar Council meeting as and when necessary
Working Monday to Friday 8:30am – 6pm
Salary: £40,000 – £45,000
To apply for this job email your details to jill@jgr.co.uk