The Barrister Group (TBG) has launched an outsourced clerking service which utilises its in-house operations infrastructure.
The move allows TBG to capitalise on the capabilities required of its dispersed model: the London-based set provides a platform for hundreds of barristers working remotely across the UK.
The VENTRiQ service covers an array of functions, including credit control, billing and regulatory and cybersecurity compliance.
VENTRiQ will be officially launched at TBG’s 2026 spring conference in London on 12 March.
TBG says it already takes instructions from 3,000 law firms alongside 5,000 private citizens each year, while processing more than 2,000 new cases each month. Users will be charged a percentage of the fees processed using the service.
Emily Foges, CEO of TBG and a former chief executive of legaltech firm Luminance, said: “The motivation is collaboration between chambers; we work closely with the Bar Standards Board (BSB), and we are always pushing the boundaries of what clerking and chambers are, and how they need to be brought into the 21st century.
“The BSB are very keen on driving collaboration between chambers because the obligations and overheads that chambers face are increasingly too heavy for their size, as the costs of data privacy and cyber security for example escalate.”
Currently, around 600 barristers and mediators and 30 clerks use the VENTRiQ platform. Two other chambers are already utilising this technology through white-label agreements.
In 2023, TBG, formerly Clerksroom, became the first chambers to receive financing from private equity, with a minority investment from LDC, a venture capital subsidiary of Lloyds’s Bank.
Clerksroom was co-founded in 2001 by Harry Hodgkin and Stephen Ward, previously a barrister and the senior clerk at South Western Chambers, respectively.
Hodgkin is now a non-executive director of TBG, while Stephen Ward is the commercial director.
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