We were founded on a simple belief: exceptional legal expertise should be easier to access. Backed by great service and the right technology, that principle has guided us for over twenty years.
Harry Hodgkin and Stephen Ward founded Clerksroom with a question that had been bothering them for years: 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 creating friction, for barristers, for solicitors, for clients. Together, they set about building something that removed it.
The answer was a chambers without walls. We invested in our people and used technology to connect the right expert with the right case. We treated barristers and clients as partners, not an afterthought. A straightforward idea. It just took time, and a global pandemic, to prove it.
When COVID-19 hit in 2020, much of the legal profession scrambled to adapt to remote working. We didn't. The barristers were already distributed across the country. The systems were already built for flexibility.
The model worked. The cohort of barristers grew quickly. And in 2023, backed by Lloyds Development Capital, we relaunched as The Barrister Group. A statement of intent about what we were building next.
We didn't scramble in 2020 because we'd spent twenty years building a chambers that didn't depend on a single office, a single clerk, or a single way of working. That was always the point.
Today, The Barrister Group Chambers is one of the largest barristers' chambers in England and Wales. We cover more than 100 areas of law and operate across every court and tribunal in the country.
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. 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 support thousands of instructions every month through a clerking team built around specialist functions rather than a traditional one-clerk-does-everything model. We are backed by Lloyds Development Capital, operate on VENTRiQ, our proprietary chambers management platform, and give clients and solicitors 24/7 online access through Chambers365.
Our barristers cover every court and tribunal in England and Wales, with a breadth of background that means almost every case has a genuine match within the network.
We moved away from the traditional one-clerk-does-everything model. Instructing solicitors deal with clerks who understand their area of work and respond quickly.
VENTRiQ connects clerking, compliance and case management in one environment. Chambers365 gives solicitors and clients 24/7 online booking without losing the clerking relationship.
Whether you are looking to instruct a barrister, explore mediation, or build your practice with a chambers that does things differently, we would like to hear from you.
