Assistant Costs Draftsperson

Description

Are you an experienced Costs Draftsperson looking to join a leading claimant law firm where your expertise can make a real difference?

We're looking for a Law Costs Draftsperson to join our National Costs Department. This is an exciting opportunity to manage your own varied costs caseload while working alongside a highly experienced team dedicated to maximising costs recovery and delivering an exceptional service to our legal teams.

You'll play a key role in the recovery of costs across a range of Multi Track personal injury matters, including RTA, Employers' Liability, Public Liability and disease claims. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you'll handle costs matters from inception through to conclusion, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the firm and our clients.### More about the role...

• Managing your own caseload of personal injury costs matters from start to finish


• Preparing Formal Bills of Costs, Statements of Costs (N260s), Estimates and Costs Budgets (Precedent H)


• Negotiating and settling costs claims to achieve the best possible recovery


• Drafting Replies to Points of Dispute and assisting with Detailed Assessment proceedings


• Advising fee earners on costs recovery prospects and strategy


• Preparing and coordinating assessment bundles and instructing advocates where required


• Attending Detailed Assessment and other costs\-related hearings


• Maintaining accurate diary management and ensuring court deadlines are met


• Working collaboratively with fee earners and colleagues to maximise costs recovery across the firm


• Keeping up to date with developments in costs law, procedure and case law

More about you...

• Previous experience managing your own personal injury costs caseload


• Strong knowledge of Fast Track and Multi Track costs recovery processes


• Experience drafting Bills of Costs and conducting negotiations on costs matters


• Good understanding of the Civil Procedure Rules and costs\-related case law


• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills


• A confident and effective negotiator


• Able to work independently whilst contributing positively to a team environment


• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook and Word

What we offer you...

• Contributory pension scheme


• 5 days additional leave over Christmas


• Permanent health insurance


• Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)


• Life assurance


• 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay


• Cycle to work scheme


• Subsidised sports and social club


• Annual travel and parking loans


• Financial assistance for professional development

Join a firm that is committed to fighting for justice and supporting its people to develop and succeed. If you're looking for a role where your costs expertise will be valued and where you can make a genuine impact, we'd love to hear from you.### About Thompsons Solicitors

For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder\-to\-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.

Thompsons ran:

• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937


• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972


• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988\) and later in Europe (1993\)


• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016


• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017\) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019\).

Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.

Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.

We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.

Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224

Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.

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