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Senior Costs Draftsman

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
England, London
Salary
£30000 - £50000 per annum + Good Package
Closing date
16 Apr 2018
Reference
LW33998

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Practice area
Advocacy, Personal injury
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
Not applicable
Position
Paralegal, Solicitor
Sector
Private practice, In-house

Job Details

Senior Costs Lawyer/Draftsman

Central London

Salary Negotiable

An experienced Senior Costs Lawyer/Draftsman is wanted to hit the ground running on department with a top 100 UK law firm. A challenging and varied opportunity the Senior Costs Draftsman will be responsible for a range of high value matters to include various personal injury and Clinical negligence work.

Applications are invited from successful Costs Lawyers with a combination of strong technical skills and a nose for a business opportunity. Excellent London based opportunity with salary negotiable and dependent on experience. The role will involve some "passing on of knowledge" but is not supervisory.

The successful candidate will be expected to hit the ground running in a successful environment, providing dedicated costs support for litigation lawyers across several UK based offices. Responsible for the management of a complex, high value caseload the individual will be drafting points of dispute, schedules of costs, bills of costs/budgets, negotiating costs to settlement and by the provision of additional supporting services such as managing and attending CCMCs/detailed assessment hearings where instructed to do so by lawyers with conduct of the file.

Applications are invited from ambitious Costs Lawyers (or equivalent) looking for an opportunity to work with a quality legal product that still has lots of room for growth both internally and externally. Candidates will be strong technically and possess the ability to see a cost matter through the cycle including the drafting of high value and complex bills up and Advocacy at detailed assessment hearings.

Apply now for immediate consideration; excellent Central London based opportunity.

Please contact Luke Whatmough Legal Recruitment Consultant, to discuss the role in more detail or apply through the vacancy for immediate consideration.

Douglas Scott are a legal recruitment expert and the UK's leading law firms trust us with their legal vacancies. We are a regulated recruitment consultancy and will discuss this role and seek your approval before submitting an application directly to the decision maker.

Please see our website www.douglas-scott.co.uk for more legal positions.

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.

Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.      

 

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0161 233 6360
Location
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB

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