SOLO LAWYER & BARRISTER
ADMIN SUPPORT
Solicitors usually have a PA. Barristers, more often than not, don't. Clerks are stretched across everyone in chambers and aren't there to manage your inbox or chase your bundling the night before a hearing. If you're a barrister, a sole practitioner, or running a small team, you're often the one holding the admin together between briefs, court, and everything in between, wherever you happen to be working from that day.
That's where I come in. Eleven years inside the Magistrates' Court of Victoria means I'm genuinely comfortable liaising directly with police, instructing solicitors, and other specialist agencies on your behalf, not just processing paperwork, but understanding how those conversations need to go and representing your practice professionally in them. I know how these people operate because I've worked alongside them.
Support built for how you actually work, not how a big firm does.
Bundles ready before you have to think about them
Court documents bundled, paginated and indexed properly, so it's not a last-minute job the night before.
Briefs and diary managed, not just noted
Diary and brief management, so nothing's double-booked and nothing's missed.
Someone who can actually speak to the other side
Direct liaison with instructing solicitors, police and other agencies, professionally and on your behalf.
eLodgement and compliance, done right the first time
Document preparation, eLodgement and compliance record-keeping handled properly.
What I Can Do
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Bundling and preparing documents for hearings, pagination, indexing, formatting, done properly and on time.
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Diary and brief management, so nothing gets double-booked and nothing gets missed.
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Liaising directly with instructing solicitors, police, and other agencies on your behalf, professionally and accurately.
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Document preparation and eLodgement.
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File management and compliance record-keeping.
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Correspondence and day-to-day client communication.
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Deadline tracking, because in this line of work, missing one isn't a small thing.
I don't give legal advice, draft legal arguments, or appear in court. That's squarely your job, and it's not mine to touch. What I do is make sure everything around it, the admin, the liaison, the paperwork, runs properly, so you can focus entirely on the parts only you can do.
What I Can't Do
Who this is for
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Barristers who need bundling, diary management, and liaison support without relying solely on a shared chambers clerk.
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Solo practitioners running their own practice who need the admin held together without taking on an in-house hire.
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Small legal teams, up to around five people, who've outgrown ad hoc admin but aren't ready for a full-time employee.
