Costs Draftsman – Robert Collington

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Costs Draftsman – Robert Collington

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Robert Collington is an experienced and adept Costs Draftsman, and Head of Legal Costs at Legal Practice Support, and oversees all drafting, negotiations and advocacy to ensure that the best possible results are obtained for all clients.

Robert has past experience working both as an external consultant, and as an in-house Costs Draftsman, and still runs his own caseload of legal costs matters.   Graduating from Keele University with a degree in a Forensic Science and Criminology, Robert initially looked to engage in accountancy work, and ultimately found work as a Trainee Costs Draftsman at an external Consultant practice based in Yorkshire.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Background and Experience

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]Robert Collington possesses in excess of eight years’ litigation experience, having begun his legal costs journey in 2010.  Having gained extensive experience as an external Consultant and becoming adept at drafting Bills of Costs, negotiating on behalf of specialist law firms, and achieving success on providing advocacy services at detailed assessments, Robert has also been successful in assisting in the construction of in-house processes, for billing, legal costs and debt recovery services.

Whilst maintaining a mixed caseload of costs matters, Robert now also deals with the day-to-day management of legal costs work at Legal Practice Support, as well as in analysing settlement and recovery data to ensure that best practices are implemented and instilled within the team.

Robert also has a keen interest in dealing with fixed recoverable costs disputes which often spring up novel arguments, and in preparing Bills of Costs in Court of Protection and complex Clinical Negligence matters.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1484897435098{padding-top: 31px !important;padding-bottom: 84px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1522850635522{padding-top: 35px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1904″ img_size=”600×550″ css_animation=”none”][/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=”none” width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1522408252513{padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 45px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Legal Practice Support

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Identifying a niche in the legal market to merge legal costs services with technological developments, particularly with the Proclaim and LEAP case management systems, Robert Collington assisted in establishing Legal Practice Support as a unique digital focussed Costs Draftsman service.

With expertise in the full legal costs process, from Costs Budgeting and Statements of Costs, to conducting detailed assessment and advocacy, Robert and the LPS team have partnered legal costs knowledge along with the efficiency that can only be achieved by embracing new technology and continually developing new practices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1484897435098{padding-top: 31px !important;padding-bottom: 84px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1522850409397{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Key Achievements

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Amongst the many achievements as a Costs Draftsman, Robert’s key successes with the team to date have included:

  • Integrating case management imports from Proclaim and LEAP into CostMaster to ensure Bill of Costs can be drafted in as little as three days, but with a maximum 5 working day SLA in place.
  • Recovering in excess of £10,000,000 in profit costs for clients since LPS was established in 2014.
  • Providing supplementary services to costs drafting, including debt recovery and enforcement assistance

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If you would like to discuss how a Costs Draftsman from the LPS team could assist your law firm, please do not hesitate to contact Robert.Collington@legalpracticesupport.co.uk for further information.

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Satisfied Client Stories

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator color=”white” el_width=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”44px”][gt3_testimonials auto_play_time=”25000″ testimonilas_text_size=”24″ text_color=”#ffffff” testimonilas_author_size=”14″ sign_color=”#ffffff” img_width=”56″ img_height=”40″ round_imgs=””][gt3_testimonial_item tstm_author=”Mark Brierley, Director at Beacon Law” select_rate=”none”]“Since we first began utilising the services of Legal Practice Support we have seen a dramatic improvement in the capabilities of our Proclaim System. The system has seen substantial enhancements with regards to automation, tasks that previously could take staff hours can now be completed within minutes.”[/gt3_testimonial_item][gt3_testimonial_item tstm_author=”Hunter Price Khan Director: Mr L Ali” select_rate=”none”]

“Prior to their (Legal Practice Support) involvement we had little to no reporting and what we did have was generally manually accumulated data on spreadsheets. Since Legal Practice Support began enhancing our system they have enabled us to receive key management information as and when required, which allows us to evaluate key areas of the business, as well as provide overviews of fee earners case progression and their performance amongst other things.”

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“We have had the out of the box Proclaim system for many years and whilst we were content with its performance it wasn’t until we utilised the services of Legal Practice Support to help streamline and automate our workflows that we really saw its potential to save time and money by maximising the efficiency of our workflows.”

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