Job Role: Costs Draftsperson
Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00 - 17.30
Department: Costs, Health Business Group
Location: Liverpool/ Manchester
Role overview
What’s in it for you
This role provides the opportunity to join one of the fastest growing teams in Hill Dickinson. The Health team have been growing year-on-year with a team of over 150 lawyers and national coverage, we are one of the leading firms providing legal advice and support to the NHS and independent healthcare organisations.
What’s on offer for you
Here are some examples of what’s on offer for you via our benefits:
- 25 days annual leave
- Birthday privilege day
- Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy and sell and carryover scheme
- Charity volunteering days
- Smart working
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent health insurance
- Health cash plan
- Maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, special leave
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day
- Training opportunities
Introduction to the team
The Costs Team are built up of experienced costs litigation professionals based across London, Liverpool and Manchester. With extensive experience of dealing with high value costs ligation, costs budgeting, appeals, group litigation and technical challenges. Our experienced advocates regularly attend national court hearings across the country.
Scope of the role:
- The successful candidate will be expected to provide dedicated costs support for litigation lawyers across several UK and International offices.
- Responsible for the management of a caseload including schedules of costs, bills of costs/budgets, negotiating costs to settlement and some advocacy.
- The role involves dealing with both adverse and recovery costs claims on predominantly multi track matters.
- This role requires a self-starter with the confidence to work autonomously, working on files from start to finish.
What we are looking for
We are looking for a Costs Draftsperson or Costs Lawyer with a proven and demonstrable legal career in costs.
Essential:
- Extensive experience working as a Costs Draftsperson handling your own caseload
- Experience of drafting points of dispute, points of reply, costs budgets and bills of costs
- IT literate, particularly Excel, to include knowledge of using Costsmaster
- Up to date knowledge of the CPR and legislation
- Management of own caseload
- Excellent communication, organisation and research skills
- Adherence to guidelines and procedures
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- A flexible approach to work
- Ability to work as a team and independently
Desirable:
- Attendance at Detailed Assessment hearings or CCMC
- Clinical negligence costs experience
Mission – who we are and our approach
We act as trusted advisors to our clients, providing commercial solutions in their specialist markets for their strategic success.
20:20 Vision – where we want to be
We want to grow a sustainable and profitable business, with a positive and inspiring culture, which places us as a top 40 law firm.
People Strategy
To create a firm we are proud of and a culture that reflects our values to deliver our ambitions of growth
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- To foster an environment of fairness, equality and respect for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, professional skills or status, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief and to create an inclusive culture that is representative of all sections of society.
Partnerships
We work with Stonewall as part of our commitment to being an LGBT friendly employer, to ensure all policies are gender inclusive and we are up to date on language and terminology. We link in with local Pride events and wear rainbow lanyards to show support to the LGBT legal community.
We work with the Social Mobility Foundation to offer work experience placements in October each year for students from low socio-economic backgrounds. We deliver a formal mentoring programme with Hill Dickinson associates and trainees mentoring students from the Social Mobility Foundation. We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and inclusion for all roles.
We are members of Working Families and work with them to ensure our policies and practices are family friendly as well as commercially viable. Working Families worked with us to develop our updated Smart Working guidelines which promotes a healthy work life balance by encouraging all employees to have a flexible approach to work in a way that is beneficial to them and to their work.
Values
Trust: We understand that trust is fundamental to how we do business, it empowers our colleagues, builds loyalty and inspires creativity.
Respect: We will maintain the highest standards of professionalism and integrity so that we foster a climate of mutual trust and confidence amongst our colleagues.
Innovation: We will embrace change, utilise our technologies and modernise our approach to business and people management.
Collaboration: We will work together and integrate across teams and in doing so share our expertise and knowledge for the benefit of the firm and our clients.
Disability Support
We will make reasonable adjustments to help you perform at your best. Please contact the Hill Dickinson Recruitment Team and tell us what adjustments you need to submit an application for a vacancy, or if you require reasonable adjustment should you be invited to interview.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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