Costs Clerk - Birmingham
£25,000 - £28,000
I'm delighted to be working with a firm in Birmingham City Centre, who have been a client of ours for many years and who are currently going through a fantastic period of growth an expansion. As a result, they are keen to add a Costs Clerk to their team in Birmingham City Centre. Ideally, they would like to recruit a Costs Clerk with experience of working in a Law Costs environment.
Duties of a Cost Clerk:
- Drafting Inter-Partes and Legal Aid bills for assessment
- Sending bills to paying party and following through assessment procedure to payment.
- Drafting replies to points of dispute
- Negotiating costs with paying party.
- Lodging bills at Court and the Legal Aid Agency for assessment.
- Monitoring performance of external costs draftsman in relation to turnaround times and work produced.
- Maintaining up to date excel spreadsheet of billing information.
- Ensuring prompt payment of finalised bills where payment is due from opponent.
- Checking bills drafted by costs assistants
- Undertaking other clerical and administrative duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.
The Person:
- Experience of drafting inter partes and legal aid bills
- Experience of using CCMS to bill legal aid files
- Computer Literate
- High Level of numeracy and accuracy when dealing with figures. Attention to detail
- Knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook
- Willing to learn new skills
- Quick learner
- Good Administrative background with experience of being able to manage and prioritise own workloads
- Legal Aid Agency rules for billing and costing of publicly funded files
- Court rules for lodging bills
- An understanding of the rules governing inter parte bills preparation
- Court costs assessment procedures
- Working in a publicly funded organisation
If you are keen to be considered for this Costs Clerk role in Birmingham City Centre, please apply directly, call me for a confidential conversation today or send your CV to