The recruitment team at ABC has an unrivalled depth of sector and professional recruitment knowledge. We offer the whole gamut of recruitment services to chambers:
- Lateral Bar recruitment
- Chambers Management & Support Staff recruitment
For a confidential discussion regarding your needs, please contact one of the team.
Please note that due to the need for confidentiality, we do not identify Chambers clients seeking lateral Bar recruitment.
Bar Recruitment
Our experienced bar lateral recruitment team form the most experienced working in consultancy and recruitment within the Chambers environment.
They have an extensive and impressive background gained over many years in the profession and across all practice areas.
Here at ABC we believe we offer an unrivalled service with our:
- uniquely intimate knowledge of the chambers’ market place; and
- our extensive network of contacts amongst the judiciary, barristers, clerks and solicitors.
Consequently, we are ideally placed to assist sets:
- looking to recruit barristers or a group of barristers;
- Members of the Bar seeking to move or relocate, to improve their practice.
For a confidential discussion regarding your needs, you can contact us here.
Please note that due to the need for confidentiality, we do not identify Chambers clients seeking lateral Bar recruitment.
Staff Recruitment
All of us at ABC have either worked in, or alongside, Chambers. We therefore understand how time-consuming and stressful sourcing appropriate new staff can be, especially when there are so many other demands from chambers on your time.
We can remove this burden completely by dealing with the whole process, whilst ensuring you remain control.
What we offer:
- assisting with preparation of job descriptions
- drafting advertisements for publication
- reviewing and sifting of all applications
- initial first-round interviews and background checks
- drawing up a shortlist of appropriate candidates
- assisting in the preparation of job offer letters if required
- taking up formal references on your behalf
- dealing with any post offer queries that may arise
…… whilst ensuring adherence to E&D and fair recruitment policies.
ABC is unique in that once we successfully place a candidate, we endeavour to visit all new recruits in their chambers, to ensure neither party has any concerns and they are settling in well.
It is also company policy not to go back to people we have placed at a later date in an effort to move them on again, which reinforces our commitment to provide long-term staffing solutions to Chambers.
ABC assist with the recruitment of the following positions in Chambers:
- Senior Clerks, CEOs and Chambers Directors
- Practice Managers and Practice Assistants
- Business Development Managers
- Team Leaders and Team Leader Assistants
- Starter and Junior Clerks
- Marketing Managers & Marketing Assistants
- Finance & Operations Managers, Finance Assistants
- Fees Clerks
- PAs and Administrators
- Receptionists & Housekeepers
Our extensive database of potential candidates reaches all levels. Our consultancy service to them means they entrust us to notify them only should an excellent career move present itself to us.
We also subscribe to what we believe are two of the best on-line recruitment portals in the UK, which has helped us to be so successful in sourcing first-class applicants from outside our industry, to encourage diversity.