Lucy Burrows Consulting
Strategic coaching and consultancy for barristers and other legal professionals, grounded in decades of first-hand Chambers experience.
“Working with Lucy was transformative. She brought courage, authenticity, and an unwavering commitment to helping me.”
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International Coaching Federation
Qualified Coach
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Mental Health First Aid Trained
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20+ Years Chambers Experience
Selected Speaking, Advisory and Media Engagements
If you represent a professional body, barristers’ chambers, law firm, or other organisation and are interested in engaging me for consultancy or strategic advisory work, or would like to invite me to deliver a workshop, talk, or training session, please get in touch.
Supporting Barristers Returning to Practice
Coaching and strategic support for barristers returning from parental leave or extended time away from practice, focused on rebuilding confidence, managing workload and reconnecting with clients and clerks. Trusted by chambers seeking to retain talented practitioners and support long, sustainable careers. Find out more.
Advisory and Coaching Services
Strategic Practice Development & Planning
Strategic coaching and business planning support for barristers and practice groups seeking thoughtful, sustainable growth - shaped by years inside leading commercial sets of chambers. Find out more.
Wellbeing, Mentoring and Retention
Confidential coaching and advisory support for barristers and chambers addressing pressure, burnout risk and retention challenges. This can include mentoring schemes, policy review and practical wellbeing initiatives designed to support sustainable practice and long careers at the Bar. Find out more.
About me
I am an independent consultant and qualified coach to barristers and sets of chambers, with more than 20 years’ senior experience working within leading commercial magic circle sets of chambers. My roles have included senior clerking, practice management, business development, strategy and recruitment. I bring deep, first-hand insight into how chambers operate in practice, how legal careers develop, and what underpins sustainable, successful practices at the Bar. I am deeply committed to the development and retention of legal talent, and my work focuses on helping individuals and chambers nurture careers, build resilient practices and create environments in which people can thrive over the long term.
I am regularly invited to contribute to thought leadership initiatives and panel discussions on practice management, talent retention, wellbeing and sustainable careers at the Bar, and have played an active role in profession-wide initiatives with the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association. In 2024 I was appointed to the reference group for Baroness Harriet Harman KC’s review in to bullying and harassment at the Bar. The findings were published in September 2025 and can be found here.
I was recognised in the The Lawyer Hot 100 2024 list and was the recipient of the Women & Diversity in Law Awards Unsung Hero in Leadership Award (2023) and now serve as a judge on the Awards’ judging panel.
I am known for combining commercial pragmatism with thoughtful, collaborative leadership, and for acting as a trusted adviser on sensitive and high-stakes issues for individuals and chambers alike.
Testimonials
“Lucy has helped me enormously with building a sustainable career at the Bar. She brings warmth, thoughtfulness and immense wisdom and experience to her work, which has made a real difference to my wellbeing, confidence and approach to building a fulfilling career. I cannot recommend her enough.”
Barrister (4 years’ call)
“Lucy’s support around maternity planning was exceptional. She helped me think strategically about protecting my practice while stepping back, and returning with confidence. I felt understood, supported, and properly prepared.”
Barrister, Public Law
“Lucy worked with our chambers to design a mentoring framework that was robust, proportionate, and aligned with our culture. She navigates leadership dynamics with discretion and authority.”
Head of Chambers
“Lucy has the perfect combination of commercial nouse and emotional intelligence which gives her a deep understanding of the modern Bar. She also has an extremely sophisticated grasp of the complex equality and diversity issues which barristers must navigate at various stages of their careers. Her wisdom in this area gives her the expertise to sensitively challenge these issues leading to improvements for individuals’ situations but also the profession as a whole”.
Commercial Barrister, 10 years’ call
“Lucy creates a space where you can speak openly about the pressures of practice without fear of judgement. She combines warmth with real strategic clarity. I left our work together with a clear business plan and a renewed sense of direction.”
Junior Tenant
“She is willing to address difficult issues directly, but always constructively. Her contribution has strengthened both individual practitioners and the wider collegiate culture of our set.”
Member, Management Committee
“At a time when I was close to burnout, Lucy brought calm, perspective, and gentle challenge. She understands the culture of the Bar instinctively and helped me make changes that have had a lasting impact on both my wellbeing and my practice.”
Silk, Commercial Set
“Working with Lucy was transformative. She brought courage, authenticity, and an unwavering commitment to helping me. She wasn’t afraid to address difficult issues head-on in a way that felt constructive and safe.”
Barrister (8 years’ call)
“Lucy brings a depth of understanding about the realities and pressures of the Bar that is both rare and invaluable. What sets Lucy apart is not only her professionalism and practical approach, but the genuine care and compassion she brings to her work and the people around her.
Lucy is thoughtful, empathetic and consistently committed to helping others thrive. She has a long‑standing dedication to talent retention at the Bar and in clerking and her support is always grounded in real insight and a sincere desire to see people succeed.
Lucy is the kind of person who makes a meaningful difference. Anyone working with her will quickly appreciate her integrity, her judgement, and the positive, people‑centred approach she brings.”
Chambers Director
“What I value about Lucy is that she keeps both perspectives in view - the individual barrister’s ambitions and the cohesion of chambers as a whole. Myself and the rest of the clerks’ room enjoyed working with her.’’
Senior Clerk, Commercial Set
FAQs
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An initial conversation is the starting point - informal, confidential and without obligation. It is simply an opportunity to understand what you are looking for and to explore whether my services would be helpful.
If it feels right to proceed, we agree next steps and scope in a way that is proportionate, practical and tailored.
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I work with individual barristers at all stages of practice, including those returning from parental leave, as well as with clerks, practice managers and chambers leadership teams.
Engagements range from one-to-one coaching to chambers-wide advisory projects.
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All work is bespoke. This might involve confidential one-to-one coaching, strategic practice planning, mentoring programmes or targeted advisory support for chambers.
Timescales and format depend on what is needed - from short interventions to longer-term programmes.
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Fees depend on the nature of the engagement. One-to-one coaching is usually priced per session or in short blocks of sessions, while chambers-wide or advisory projects are typically structured on a day-rate or project fee basis.
All fees are discussed openly at the outset and agreed in advance following an initial conversation.
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Yes. All enquiries and engagements are handled with discretion and strict confidentiality.
Where I am working with chambers, boundaries around information-sharing are agreed clearly at the outset.
Get in Touch!
All enquiries are treated in strict confidence. Initial conversations are discreet, exploratory and entirely without obligation.
