Job Description
Role: Legal Cost Drafter (Croydon)
Salary: £20,000- £22,000
Location: Croydon
Hours: 40-hour week
About the role:
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a successful Law Firm, with a team of 50 staff members, compromising of highly experienced, dedicated solicitors and paralegals. They take pride in their result-orientated approach to ensure that their clients receive the very best and legal advice. The firm provide expertise in areas such as Immigration, Conveyancing, Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Housing and Family Law.
Requirements:
Responsibilities:
If interested, feel free to reach out:
t: 0207 430 2446
e: Riyad.Kahir@pertemps.co.uk
Salary: £20,000- £22,000
Location: Croydon
Hours: 40-hour week
About the role:
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a successful Law Firm, with a team of 50 staff members, compromising of highly experienced, dedicated solicitors and paralegals. They take pride in their result-orientated approach to ensure that their clients receive the very best and legal advice. The firm provide expertise in areas such as Immigration, Conveyancing, Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Housing and Family Law.
Requirements:
- Ideal candidate must hold a legal background
- Minimum 1 year experience cost drafting
Responsibilities:
- Drafting bills/ costs of costs schedules (electronic)
- Knowledge of case management systems
- Preparing new electronic bills
- Preparing Precedent H budgets & Precedent R
- Drafting estimates of costs
- Dealing with part 8 claims
- Preparing N260 costs schedules
- Negotiating costs
- Preparing points of dispute/replies
- Provisional/detailed assessment proceedings
- Final costs certificates
- Default costs certificates
- Complete post Assessment work including agreeing figures and concluding assessment process
- Provide costs advice/guidance to fee earners as and when required
- Ability to deal with paying party solicitors on a day-to-day basis
If interested, feel free to reach out:
t: 0207 430 2446
e: Riyad.Kahir@pertemps.co.uk
