Where it began

In 2001, Harry Hodgkin and Stephen Ward founded Clerksroom with a question: what would a modern barristers' chambers actually look like?

Harry had been called to the Bar in 1983 and spent nearly four decades in practice. Stephen brought deep clerking experience and a clear-eyed view of where the traditional model was failing. Together, they could see the friction: for barristers, for solicitors, for clients. So they set about building something that removed it.

The answer was a chambers without walls. One that invested in its people, used technology to connect the right expert with the right case, and treated barristers and clients as partners rather than an afterthought. It was a straightforward idea. But one that took time, and a global pandemic, to prove.

The moment everything changed

When COVID-19 hit in 2020, much of the legal profession scrambled to adapt to remote working. Clerksroom didn't. The infrastructure was already there. The barristers were already distributed across the country. The systems were already built for flexibility.

The cohort of barristers grew quickly. The model worked. And in 2023, backed by Lloyds Development Capital, the organisation relaunched as The Barrister Group: a statement of intent about what it was building next.

What we've built

Today, The Barrister Group Chambers is one of the largest barristers' chambers in England and Wales. We cover more than 100 areas of law, operate across every court and tribunal in the country, and support thousands of instructions every month through a clerking team that is built around specialist functions rather than a traditional one-clerk-does-everything model.

Our barristers come from an enormous range of backgrounds — from career advocates to former medical professionals, engineers, government lawyers and business owners. That breadth is deliberate. It means that when a solicitor or client brings us a case, there is almost always someone in our network who has real, specific expertise in exactly that area.

We are backed by Lloyds Development Capital and operate on VENTRiQ, our proprietary platform that connects clerking, compliance and case management into a single environment. Alongside that, Chambers365 gives clients and solicitors 24/7 online access to book, track and manage their matters — without losing the support of an experienced clerking team when they need it.

Built differently. From the start.

Where it began

The moment everything changed

What we've built

168

120

3K

20K

Work with us or join us