Specialist counsel,
cleanly clerked.
Clerk&Counsel is a modern clerking agency. We connect clients and solicitors with independent, BSB-registered barristers — and run a quiet, capable back office for the members of the Bar we work with.
Join a growing network of specialist barristers. We market your expertise, generate Direct Access enquiries through our website, and support you with professional clerking and practice management technology.
Every barrister we work with.
Without exception. Each is an independent practitioner regulated by the Bar Standards Board, with current practising certificate and indemnity in place.
A clerking agency, plainly stated.
Clerk&Counsel does not provide legal services. We clerk for the Bar — receiving instructions, matching them to counsel and handling the paperwork around them.
Direct access where suitable.
We will tell you, candidly, which route fits your matter — and decline cases that ought to go through a solicitor first.
Independent.
Genuinely.
- i.Fully autonomous. You stay self-employed and BSB-regulated. We clerk for you — we don't manage you.
- ii.Free to accept work from anywhere. Solicitors, other agencies, existing referrers — none of it is exclusive to us.
- iii.No chambers attendance. No building to sit in, no rota, no marshalling, no committee work.
- iv.No rent, no levy. No chambers rent, no fixed monthly contribution, no marketing tax — a single percentage on collected fees.
- v.No minimum hours. No billing targets, no minimum sittings. Practise as much, or as little, as you choose.
Instruct
counsel.
Tell us about the matter. We will quietly identify the right independent counsel and look after the engagement from first call to final fee note.
Send a brief→For members of the BarClerking
services.
Sourced instructions and business development — handled. Stay independent. Lose the back office.
See clerking services→Three steps,
start to instruction.
Brief us
Tell us the practice area, the urgency and the parties. Direct access or via your solicitor — both routes welcome.
We match
Our clerks identify suitable, available, BSB-registered counsel and come back with options and indicative fees.
Instruct
Engagement letter and conflict checks completed digitally. Counsel briefed and on the case.
Want us clerking
your practice?
We bring the work and run the back office on a single, transparent percentage. No annual subscription, no rent, no hidden marketing levy.
What Clerk&Counsel
is and is not.
- — A clerking agency for the independent Bar
- — An intake desk for clients and solicitors
- — Working only with BSB-registered counsel
- — A barristers' chambers
- — A firm of solicitors
- — Providers of legal advice ourselves
- — An online directory you book through unassisted