What are Legal Costs Negotiators?
Legal costs are an inevitable outcome of any type of legal proceedings. On conclusion of a case, one or both parties will be liable for all or some of the legal costs accumulated throughout the litigation process. In a large proportion of cases, the losing party will be held responsible for payment of the winning party’s costs. It is often difficult for parties to agree on the level of costs payable by the losing party (paying party) to the winning party (receiving party). If costs cannot be agreed on a case, Legal Practice Support’s experienced legal costs negotiators can assist in the negotiation and recovery of legal costs, whether you are the paying or receiving party.
Legal Costs Negotiators: Our Services
Our experienced Costs Draftsmen and Costs Lawyers have recovered substantial amounts for receiving parties and have successfully negotiated on behalf of paying parties. We assist both Defendant and Claimant Solicitors, as well as litigants in persons in by providing the following costing services:
- Advice and assistance on drafting compliant Conditional Fee Agreements/retainers and making sure success fees are appropriately calculated.
- Preparation of Costs Budgets (Precedent H)
- Statements of Costs for Trial (N260)
- Traditional/electronic Bills of Costs to recover costs from a paying party
- Assistance throughout the Detailed Assessment Process – Points of Dispute and Points of Reply
- Providing representation at Detailed Assessment Hearings
- CPR 45 Fixed Costs disputes
- Legal Expense Insurer (LEI) claims
We also focus on offering remote law costs drafting services, meaning we can assist any firm in any location of England and Wales.
Reasons for Using a Legal Costs Negotiator Service
Instructing legal costs negotiators, such as costs draftsmen and costs lawyers to assist in legal costs matters can be advantageous for a number of reasons. We have a wealth of experience in legal costs, meaning that they will be well equipped to maximise your legal costs recovery on any costs claimed (or to minimise your costs exposure if you are a paying party) and will successfully negotiate any legal costs payable to the receiving party. We will also ensure accuracy of costs documents prepared in complex litigation, and ensure that if a detailed assessment is to take place, that it will be on a compliant and tightly drawn document.
Why Choose Legal Practice Support?
The Legal Practice Support team have many years of experience and are always happy to help/advise on any costs issues. We are a team of highly qualified Costs Draftsmen and Costs Lawyers. We strive to achieve the best possible outcome for all clients and can assist in all areas of litigation.
If you would like to find out more about out law costs draftsman service, please visit the legal costs section on our website.
Our Costs Director, Robert Collington, can be contacted via email at enquiries@legalpracticesupport.co.uk or by telephone on 01204 930234.