Kings Chambers looks to win more international work

A barrister set in the region has reported a record year and announced plans to secure more international work for its members.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Jul 2015, 18:24 BST

Kings Chambers opened in Leeds in 2001 and has chambers in Manchester and Birmingham. The civil set has more than one hundred barristers as members including 16 QCs.

Billings last year jumped 17 per cent to £29m and the chief clerks at the set say they are targeting further growth having attracted work into Leeds from international sources as well as securing more work regionally that had traditionally been done by London-based sets.

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Colin Griffin, chief clerk at Kings Chambers, said: “We’ve earned an outstanding reputation nationally and we are seeing the benefits of many years of careful recruitment of the best practitioners and controlled growth in Leeds.

“We are the first set in Leeds to have a specialist EU and competition law barrister in Adam Aldred and we anticipate continued increased demand for his expertise.”

Major law firms instructing Kings include Walker Morris, Blacks, Pinsent Mason, DLA Piper, DAC Beachcroft and Lupton Fawcett.

Key areas of specialism at Kings in Leeds are chancery and commercial, planning and public law, personal injury and clinical negligence.

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Mr Griffin said: “We made a brave decision to cease practising in criminal, family and publicly funded work when we launched in 2001 to focus on our key strengths and become Leeds’ first purely multi-disciplinary civil set and that was possibly the best decision we ever made.

“We’ve seen year-on-year growth for the past 17 years in Leeds and are determined to maintain growth whilst providing outstanding service to our clients across Yorkshire.”

Bill Brown, chief clerk at Kings, said: “There’s no reason for a solicitor in Leeds to instruct a London set when we’ve some of the finest barristers practising in the city centre.

“We’re now servicing work which routinely went to London counsel a few years ago and this has seen our members work on increasingly large cases.”

Several members of Kings have been admitted in foreign jurisdictions including the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre.

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