AlfieĀ Lee
  • Alfie Lee is an exceptional appointment to senior clerk. He is very practical and direct. He will drive the chambers into the next level up.

    Chambers UK 2025

  • Alfie is absolutely brilliant: hands-on, he knows his barristers and can match counsel to a case quickly. The clerks are all extremely friendly, always welcoming and want to be helpful.

    Chambers UK 2025

  • Director of clerking, Alfie Lee, is the quintessential modern day clerk. He has commercial awareness and can place his barristers into cases and bring people to work together from different firms.

    Chambers UK 2025

  • Alfie is absolutely brilliant: hands-on, he knows his barristers and can match counsel to a case quickly. 

    Chambers UK 2025

  • Alfie Lee always goes the extra mile.

    Legal 500 2025

  • Alfie Lee, recently promoted to the position of Senior Clerk, is an outstanding clerk with tremendous ability to deal with issues skilfully and sensitively.

    Legal 500 2025

  • Alfie Lee brings new energy.

    Legal 500 2025

  • Impeccable. Alfie Lee being appointed to director of clerking has reinvigorated this already thriving set.

    Legal 500 2025

  • The newly appointed senior clerk, Alfie Lee, is a tour de force. He is a rain-maker of exceptional talent, industry, energy, intuition and foresight.

    Legal 500 2025

  • Forever effervescent, always approachable and thoroughly modern in outlook, Alfie represents the present and future of how good clerking should be done to the benefit of all users."

    Legal 500 2025

  • Alfie Lee is knowledgeable, personable and always manages to find a solution.

    Chambers UK 2024

  • Alfie Lee is fantastic. If I tell him something needs to be done, he sorts it out and goes above and beyond to ensure everything runs smoothly.

    Chambers UK 2024

  • Alfie Lee will move heaven and earth to accommodate you.

    Chambers UK 2024

  • Alfie Lee is particularly impressive in the manner in which he assists in the day-to-day running of chambers and in the management and development of client relationships. 

    Legal 500 2024

  • He is extremely reliable and goes that extra mile should the need ever arise.

    Legal 500 2024

  • Alfie Lee is exceptional.

    Legal 500 2023

  • Alfie Lee is a superstar clerk in the making.

    Legal 500 2022

  • Alfie Lee and Emma Makepeace head up the clerks’ room with great efficiency and skill and are always approachable, understanding and accommodating to the needs of their lay and professional clients.

    Legal 500 2021

  • The clerks' room are the backbone of chambers. They are without doubt second-to-none. They never let you down, are always your back-up. I would be lost without them. Alfie Lee is definitely a rising star.

    Legal 500

  • Alfie Lee is a class clerking act. 

    Legal 500

  • Outstanding.

    Legal 500

  • The clerks are completely on the ball. They simply understand what a solicitor wants from a set of chambers. They guarantee exceptional service in terms of the Counsel that they are able to offer, and the service that they, as a Chambers, should offer over and above that.

    Legal 500

  • The clerks offer an excellent service and when issues do arise the contact is timely and realistic with a solution to the problem already on hand. Very impressive clerking team.

    Legal 500

  • The clerks offer an excellent service and when issues do arise the contact is timely and realistic with a solution to the problem already on hand. Very impressive clerking team.

    Legal 500

  • The quality of clerking is held by some to be “second to none” amongst criminal sets.

    Chambers UK

  • Alfie knows intuitively what is needed and bends over backwards to accommodate.

    Legal 500

Alfie Lee

Director of Clerking

January 2024 - Present: 25 Bedford Row, Director of Clerking
October 2022 - December 2023: 25 Bedford Row, Deputy Director of Clerking
January 2016 - October 2022: 25 Bedford Row, Senior Practice Clerk
November 2012 - January 2016: 25 Bedford Row, Joint 2nd Junior Clerk
January 2009 - November 2012: Furnival Chambers, Clerk
December 2007 - January 2009: 6 King's Bench Walk, Junior Clerk
January 2007 - December 2007: 9-12 Bell Yard, Junior Clerk

Alfie has been with 25 Bedford Row since November 2012. He has a strong background in all aspects of criminal and common law. Prior to starting his career as a clerk, Alfie studied Law at the University of Hertfordshire.

Alfie was appointed Director of Clerking in January 2024. Alfie's role in Chambers includes relationship management with clients, diary and practice management. Alfie is also responsible for the management and supervision of the work undertaken by, and the development of, the rest of our clerking team. 

Alfie Lee is exceptional.

Legal 500

Alfie was shortlisted for Clerk of the Year at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2022.

Alfie has completed the BTec Advanced Award in Chambers Administration. This professional qualification is set nationally and certifies competence as a barrister’s clerk.

Alfie is a member of the Institute of Barristers' Clerks and a member of The British Association for Sport and Law (BASL).

Alfie is often found on the terraces supporting West Ham Utd. He also has a keen interest in travel, movies and keeping fit.