Costs Clerk
- Recruiter
- Bolt Burdon Kemp
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 14 May 2021
- Closes
- 11 Jun 2021
- Job Title
- Legal Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Costs Clerk
London
The Firm
Bolt Burdon Kemp is a highly regarded law firm, representing seriously injured people in their claims for compensation. Our solicitors and paralegals handle complex and challenging multi-track work within specialist teams. We pride ourselves on providing a high quality service and for employing talented staff who are serious about developing their careers with us. We are ranked in the leading independent legal directories for our fields of work and are passionate about making Bolt Burdon Kemp the best place to work.
The Role
Due to ongoing growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Costs Clerk to join our Costs Operations team.
You will assist with:
- the costs operation aspects of cases and work in close proximity with Costs Draftspersons;
- drafting schedules and statements of costs, opening and closing of files, filing, keeping the file room tidy and in order ;
- checking disbursements in bills of costs, paying disbursements, serving and lodging bills, creating invoices for solicitors’ fees and disbursements.
You will ideally:
- have an interest in litigation costs;
- demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills;
- be hard working with good analytical and organisational skills to manage and prioritise a busy workload;
- be comfortable to work against deadlines and targets;
- possess excellent IT skills particularly with Microsoft Excel and Word;
- be a fast learner and have the ability to work with our case management systems.
In return we will give you with the opportunity to excel by providing training, support, supervision and responsibility to match your experience.
It is our policy to select the firm’s trainee solicitors from internal applicants only, based on suitability and business needs.
Our working environment is demanding, friendly and very flexible. To find out more about working at Bolt Burdon Kemp, visit our website.
Apply
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We are not accepting applications from agencies for this role.