WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

The Costs team is made up of one Partner and a number of Associates, Senior Associates and Costs Lawyers. Emma-Kate Hargreave who heads up this team is a Costs Lawyer working on contentious matters covering a variety of practice areas including Commercial Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property & Technology, Personal Injury and Medical Negligence, Public Regulatory and Property Litigation.
On offer is a competitive salary package, a supportive leadership team and real prospects for development.
This role is aimed at somebody who has significant experience dealing with high value and complex personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• A foundation of work experience within PIMN costs specifically
• Advocacy experience preferable, but not essential
• Ability to carry out training, articles and blogs
• Proof of building and maintaining releationships and working to deadlines
• Proficient with costing software and good organisational skills, working on multiple matters at any one time
• Support and development of junior members of the team

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparing inter parties bills of costs – traditional and electronic format
• Preparing breakdowns for negotiation
• Preparing Prededent H costs budgets and dealing with costs management process including Precedent R discussion reports and Precedent T revisions.
• Preparing estimates in support of Allocation and Pre-Trial questionnaires
• Risk assessessing and preparing Points in Reply
• Preparing N260 forms (Statement of Costs)
• Assisting Head of Costs with day to day activities and tasks as required
• Working with other Cost Lawyers, Cost Draftsman and Fee Earners internally
• Up to date with relevant case law and rules and provide supervisory assistance
• Deliver training to the Costs and PIMN team
• Undertaking any other reasonable duties as requested

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE RECRUIT ON A ROLLING BASIS, MEANING THAT YOUR APPLICATION WILL MOST LIKELY BE REVIEWED BEFORE THE APPLICATION DEADLINE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS UNTIL WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FILLED THE ROLE.

Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market-leading practices in many of the world’s most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, financial services, energy & natural resources, and life sciences.
We are a law firm built around people with all their diversity and we strike a healthy balance between legal excellence and a down-to-earth practical approach to our clients’ needs. We believe The Future is Human, so we choose a collaborative approach with an intense focus on the end-user and consider carefully how to shape our services to add the most value to our clients