Why VENTRiQ exists
Legal businesses are often held back by operational complexity: disconnected systems, duplicated effort, slow processes, and limited visibility. Growth adds pressure, not clarity.
VENTRiQ was created to address this problem directly.
Solving the operational problem in legal services
VENTRiQ is the operational infrastructure that powers legal brands, chambers, and independent legal businesses behind the scenes.
We take responsibility for the complex, time-consuming operational work that sits underneath legal practice, so legal teams can focus on what they do best: delivering excellent legal services, growing sustainably, and making confident strategic decisions.
VENTRiQ is not a marketplace, a directory, or a consultancy. It is a structured, technology-enabled operations platform built specifically for the realities of legal services.
Why VENTRiQ exists
Legal businesses have evolved. Operational models have not.
Too many chambers and legal brands are still relying on fragmented systems, manual processes, and overstretched internal teams to manage finance, compliance, reporting, onboarding, and growth.
VENTRiQ was created to solve that problem.
We exist to give legal leaders clarity, control, and momentum — without forcing them to rebuild their business from scratch or bolt together multiple suppliers.
A brand of
The Barrister Group
Built from real-world legal experience
VENTRiQ is a brand of The Barrister Group: one of the UK’s most established and forward-thinking legal services organisations.
It has been developed by people who understand, first-hand:
How chambers actually operate day to day
The pressures on clerks, practice managers, and finance teams
What boards, Heads of Chambers and senior leaders need in order to make decisions
Where traditional legal ops models break down at scale
This is operational infrastructure designed from lived experience, not abstract best practice. Our heritage ensures VENTRiQ is grounded, credible, and designed for the realities of legal operations.
Board-led oversight and governance
We operate with board-level oversight, ensuring strong governance, accountability, and strategic direction.
This structure provides confidence for partner brands and chambers, reinforcing that the platform is not an experiment or short-term solution, but a long-term operational foundation built to support growth, compliance, and resilience.
Our Leadership Team
Christina Blacklaws
Christina has spent her career working at the heart of the legal profession, including serving as President of the Law Society of England and Wales.
She brings deep experience in regulation, governance and leadership, and helps ensure VENTRiQ is built with strong ethical foundations.
Her role is to make sure the platform supports innovation without losing sight of responsibility, standards and public trust.
Non-Executive Director
Dr Keiran Fleming
Keiran leads the technology behind VENTRiQ. He focuses on building systems that are secure, reliable and easy to use.
His role is to make sure the platform does what it should do, without adding unnecessary complexity.
Chief Technology Officer
Emily has built her career in legal services and legal technology, working at the point where operations, people and systems meet.
She has led organisations through growth, change and modernisation, and understands what it takes to run complex legal businesses day to day.
At VENTRiQ, she focuses on turning strategy into something practical — making sure the platform actually works for the people using it.
Chief Executive OfficerEmily Foges
Stefan comes from an investment and growth background, working with businesses as they scale and mature.
He has experience supporting leadership teams through periods of change, expansion and restructuring.
At VENTRiQ, he helps guide long-term strategy and keeps a close eye on how growth is managed, making sure it stays ambitious but sensible.
Investment DirectorStefan Gunn
Harry Hodgkin
Harry is a co-founder of The Barrister Group, the umbrella organisation that VENTRiQ sits within.
He has first-hand experience of building and growing legal ventures and understands what it takes to make them work in practice.
At VENTRiQ, he helps keep the platform practical, useful and aligned with the wider group’s direction.
Non-Executive Director
Oliver Schofield
Oliver brings private equity experience to the board, with a focus on building strong, sustainable businesses.
He supports VENTRiQ’s commercial development and long-term planning.
His role is to help ensure the platform grows in a structured and well-run way.
Investment Director
Stephen looks after VENTRiQ’s commercial direction, making sure what we offer genuinely works for legal organisations.
He focuses on how the platform is used, how it delivers value, and how it grows.
As a co-founder of The Barrister Group, he brings direct experience of building legal businesses into every commercial decision.
Commercial DirectorStephen Ward
Steven leads the board and brings a wealth of experience from chairing and advising growing, investor-backed businesses.
He focuses on governance, risk and keeping the business strategically focused.
His role is to make sure VENTRiQ grows in a way that is credible, controlled and trusted.
ChairmanSteven Weller
VENTRiQ is designed to grow with the legal sector, adapting as regulation, technology, and client expectations evolve.
Our focus is simple:
build operational foundations that allow legal businesses to move faster, scale responsibly, and remain in control.
Looking ahead
Brands powered by VENTRiQ
VENTRiQ is already supporting a growing network of legal brands operating across different practice areas and service models. Each partner retains its own identity while benefiting from shared operational infrastructure, connected workflows, and access to a wider professional ecosystem.
Explore the organisations currently operating within the VENTRiQ network.
