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Our team provides a complete service, helping your solicitors at any stage in litigation.
We understand that handling legal costs at your law firm is a time consuming and challenging task. Thankfully, we can support you with these duties, saving you money and time.
At Levi Solicitors, our expert costs lawyer, Simon Miller, and his dedicated team, provide an outstanding legal costs service. Through this specialist service, we support other lawyers with their costs issues in various ways, including assessing and negotiating legal costs, cost recovery from litigation opponents, and generally managing the legal costs associated with a case.
When you work with us, you’ll access the expertise and resources you need to maximise recovery, effectively manage your costs, and improve both competitiveness and efficiency.
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Simon and his team have a wealth of experience providing legal costs support, and will always adopt a personalised approach, offering assistance that’s aligned with your needs. Our legal costs specialists can help with the following key areas:
- Bill of Costs
- Negotiation of costs
- Costs budgets
- Costs assessment hearings
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Our legal costs service
| Preparing bill of costs
We can support your law firm with preparing bill costs, including reviewing inter-party costs, and recording the costs into the correct phases.
Our experts can assist you to prepare the bill in your preferred format, whether the 3-column format or the Precedent S. We can also help you with preparing a Notice of Commencement, along with any other support that you may need related to bill of costs.
If you have any questions about preparing bill of costs, please do get in touch with our expert solicitors at Levi.
| Negotiation of costs
Our specialist cost lawyers can support you with the negotiation of costs, including, advising you on settlement parameters, recommendations on arguments raised on costs, and preparing submissions. Additionally, we can help with preparing points of dispute and/or replies to points of dispute, as well as preparing Part 36 offers.
At Levi Solicitors we will always seek to gain a detailed understanding of your needs, so that we can provide tailor-made support. For more information, please get in touch with our legal costing specialists.
Our costs draftsmen at Levi will be happy to answer any questions you have on costs negotiation matters.
| Costs budgets
Our legal experts can help you with your costs budgets in many different ways, including preparing incurred costs for Precedent H, and preparing estimated costs and assumptions. We can also assist you to handle Precedent R, negotiate for estimated costs, and handle the Costs and Case Management Conference (CCMC.)
Additionally, we can provide bespoke advice on fixed recoverable costs, file presentation and maximising recovery. Our legal costing service includes a free collection and return of files.
Navigating the area of costs budgets can be complex and lengthy, which is why expert support is well recommended. If you would like to learn more about costs budgets, we can help you with this, so please get in touch.
| Costs assessment hearings
Simon Miller and his team can support clients at cost assessment hearings. These refer to a proceeding where a costs officer, or court, reviews the legal costs that a client has incurred throughout legal processes or litigation, to determine whether or not they are proportionate and reasonable.
If you are going through this process, and require legal support, we can ensure that you have the help you need and that your interests are well protected.
As well as this type of support, we can also help with costs only proceedings.
Why choose Levi as your Cost Lawyers?
At Levi Solicitors, our costs lawyers have much experience working with clients to provide legal costs support. We are committed to providing clients with simple legal costs solutions, helping you to save your fee earners time, and improve your costs recovery along the way.
Simon Miller is highly experienced and knowledgeable in the area of legal costs, as are the committed team who assist him. If you are finding it difficult to manage your legal costs, we can help you to streamline the process, improving your efficiency in the long-term.
At Levi, we have invested in CostsMaster – an intuitive software tool to create accurately calculated, high quality costs budgets and bills of costs. This versatile program – written and extensively tested by experienced and currently practising costs draftsmen – allows bills to be produced to reflect your individual preferred style in many areas.
Our overheads are shared with the legal services fee-earners, which ensures our prices are extremely competitive.
If you would like to learn more about our team, and how we can assist you, please contact our costs draftsmen today.
Levi Cost Lawyers’ Success Stories
Legal costs dispute
Levi’s expert costs lawyer, Simon Miller, acted for a solicitor who was in dispute with a client regarding their fees. The solicitor’s client disputed over £300,000 of the solicitor’s fees which she had already paid.
The solicitor’s client suggested, among other matters, that the solicitor was not entitled to any costs as there was no retainer and that the solicitor had agreed to work for free.
The dispute was extremely complex and drawn-out, various allegations were made on both sides, and detailed witness statements from each party were required.
The matter was eventually settled, with Simon reducing the amount returned to the solicitor’s client to just £125,000. The settlement included all costs of assessment and was an excellent result for Levi and the solicitor we acted for.
Costs negotiation case
Simon was instructed by a firm of solicitors, who were acting for the Claimant in a medical negligence case. They wanted to recover their client’s costs from the Defendant.
The solicitors had been attempting to settle costs between themselves and the Defendants’ solicitors, and prepared a without prejudice schedule themselves for negotiations. Unfortunately, the schedule missed several points, making negotiations difficult.
The Claimant’s solicitors instructed Simon to look at the schedule that they had prepared and advise on whether the Defendant’s offer was reasonable. Simon advised that the Defendant’s offer was not sufficient. He prepared a formal bill of costs, and proceeded until a reasonable offer was received.
Simon’s involvement in this matter meant that our client recovered almost £15,000 more than they would have done.