Costs Draftsman - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Huntsman Group

The Huntsman Group

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Our client is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong.

With more than 840 people including 175 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

They act as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

Due to the growing team we are now actively looking for a Costs Draftsperson to join them.

Role overview

What's in it for you

This role provides the opportunity to join one of the fastest growing teams in the business and The Health team have been growing year-on-year with a team of over 150 lawyers and national coverage, they 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 carry over 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:

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 selfstarter 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 mínimal 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 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