An Associate, Just Outside Your Chambers
Firms hire associates for a reason. Somebody has to read the file, find the authorities and write the process, and the partner who will argue it rarely has the hours to do all three. The trouble is that an associate is a salary, a desk and a commitment — and the work does not arrive evenly. It comes in a rush before a filing season and thins out afterwards.
The Associates began as a working habit before it became a service. A lawyer in active litigation kept meeting the same week: court in the morning, chambers in the evening, and a written address that had to be produced somewhere in between. Rather than accept that the drafting would always be done last and done tired, it became a separate desk with its own hours — a desk that does nothing but read, research and draft.
Other practitioners asked to use it. That is the whole origin of the business, and the whole of the idea: the associate you need, for exactly as long as you need one.
We are not a law firm. We hold no clients of our own, we appear in no matter, and our legal work is taken only from lawyers. What we offer is not clerical help. It is the work a capable associate in your own chambers would produce, in the weeks you need it and not a day longer.
