Practice Manager – Civil Liability
Job type: Practice Manager - Civil Liability
Salary: Competitive and depending on experience, discretionary bonus and benefits
Location: London
Closing date: 01/07/2026
Contract: Full time (42.5 hours per week) and permanent
The Role: Practice Manager – Civil Liability
Reporting to the Director of Clerking, your duties will include work generation, business development, fee negotiation, court liaison and diary management for a team of barristers as well as day-to-day management of more junior team members. The work is fast-paced, challenging and always interesting.
About Us: 39 Essex Chambers
We are a leading barristers’ chambers with offices in London, Singapore, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. We are made up of almost 200 barristers (including 55 King’s Counsel), along with a staff team of 53.
We work in a wide range of sectors and practice areas of law, specialising in Civil Liability, Planning, Environment and Property, Public Law and Commercial and Construction Law, throughout the UK and internationally. Many of our cases are high profile – you may have seen or read about them in the media.
Person Specification
The Person
We are looking for a candidate who has the following:
- Experience of practice management within a barristers’ chambers or management in professional client services.
- A confident networker, with a proven record of spotting and capitalising on opportunities for business development, and building and maintaining client relationships.
- Client focused, committed to providing a professional and quality service.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to negotiate and influence outcomes.
- Able to work effectively as part of a team, with a demanding workload and in a high-paced environment.
- Experience in or demonstrable interest in the area of civil liability law.
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office Suite. Experience of LEX case management system (or other chambers case management software) desirable.
- 2 A-level qualifications equivalent, or relevant degree standard qualification (desirable).
Please see full personal specification for the role here.
Contract Terms And Benefits
What Chambers can offer:
- A full-time (42.5 hours) and permanent role.
- A competitive salary depending on experience, and discretionary bonus scheme.
- 23 days’ holiday, increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 25 days, plus bank holidays.
- Following a successful probationary period, our discretionary benefits include access to our private medical scheme, ride to work scheme, private GP service, life assurance, employee assistance programme, interest-free season ticket loan, discretionary bonus scheme, annual eye test, along with additional paid annual leave including ½ day birthday leave, 2 days religious holidays, 2 days annual slow travel leave and 1 ‘give back’ day.
- Chambers offers a group pension scheme paying 6% of salary into an individual’s pension scheme where the employee contributes at least 3% of their salary.
Please see the full benefits in the job specification here.
Applications
How to Apply
Please send a completed application form, along with the Equality & Diversity monitoring form, to recruitment@39essex.com. Please ensure that you put ‘Practice Manager – CLG’ in the email subject heading.
CVs will not be accepted. Please see our general recruitment guidance for more information.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Jamie.Tucker@39essex.com
We will make reasonable adjustments to enable disabled candidates to demonstrate their suitability for the position. Please contact us at recruitment@39essex.com.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 1 July at 12:00pm (noon). Applications received after this time will not be considered.
The interview dates are Tuesday, 7th & Wednesday, 8th July in London. Please keep these dates free.
Please note:
- We may not be able to respond to every candidate individually. You will, however, receive an automatic reply to your email acknowledging receipt of your application.
- We will only consider applications from individuals who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
39 Essex Chambers is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We encourage and welcome applications from people of the global majority, those with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, women and candidates from groups which are under-represented in the legal sector.
