Senior Costs Draftsperson
Senior Costs Draftsperson
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06-04-2025
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Job Description
Job Description
COSTS DRAFTSMAN / COSTS LAWYERS / SENIOR COSTS DRAFTSMAN
Candidates must have minimum 2 years experience in drafting anything ranging from standard Fast Track PI cases right up to complex Clinical Negligence and Commercial Litigation cases and able to provide evidence of doing so at interview.
Dependent on experience the role will involve:
- Drafting Formal / Informal Bill of Costs / Precedent S on cases including but not restricted to:
- CWI
- Clinical Negligence
- Commercial Litigation
- Catastrophic Injury
- Industrial Disease
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Serious RTA
- Financial claims
- Holiday Claims
- Drafting and Negotiating of Costs Budgets on all of the above case types
- Occasional Negotiation and Advocacy as and when required by the business
- Training of less experienced staff
Competencies:
- Excellent timekeeping and attendance.
- Excellent telephone skills.
- Ability and desire to learn new systems inhouse training given.
- Attention to detail when updating notes onto database.
- Ability to be proficient at all times ensuring correspondence such as; letters emails and telephone calls are actioned/compiled in a professional manor.
- Selfdrive results orientated who can critically assess own performance.
- Excellent communicator able to see things from all points of view.
- Wellpresented and business like.
- Teamplayer
Experience:
- Understanding the principles of claims/legal industry is essential
- Personality and Tenacity essential.
- Knowledge of litigation funding insurance/legal claims proclaims or the financial service industry is desirable.
- Adapt in the use of MS Office 20000 or later particularly in Excel and Word is essential.
Benefits:
- Competitive basic salary
- 22 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Additional day off over Christmas.
- Personal time 8 hours for external appointments across the year.
- Staff referral Bonus
- Employee Assistance programme.
- Training and progression opportunities within Your Legal Costs.
- Accessible to public transport
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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