Law Costs Draftsperson

Law Costs Draftsperson.
 
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a law costs draftsperson to join a top tier law firm based in Birmingham city centre on a full time, permanent basis.
 
You will join a highly successful law firm and join a team of up to 30 including one partner, one associate, six supervisors, along with experienced qualified and non-qualified personnel.

The team handles a range of costs related work, dealing with small level and high-value cases including catastrophic injury, claims portal/PCR, costs budgeting, and recoveries. 
 
You will have a responsibility of managing your own caseload of matters which include drafting points of dispute, drafting and challenging costs budgets, setting strategy, and negotiating and running claims to assessment. Other key duties will include, but will not be limited to:

• Handling varied caseloads of costs challenges or costs recoveries
• Achieving a minimum budgeted annual target of 1440 annual chargeable hours
• Hitting, maintaining and applying a consistent approach to individual targets
• Acting as a point of contact for clients
• Taking responsibility for quality control and benchmark compliance on your caseload.

You must have previous experience handling a caseload of costs challenges/recoveries, be a confident negotiator/communicator, be IT literate, be a target driven individual having managed and hit targets previously, and be able to work under pressure both individually and as part of a team.
 
To register your interest in this Law Costs Draftsperson position based in Birmingham city centre, please click the apply now button.