# Junior Costs Draftsperson

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Lostock, Bolton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a Junior Costs Draftsperson to join our Costs Recoveries and PRC team at Davies. As a Junior Costs Draftsperson, you will play a crucial role in pursuing the settlement of legal costs on a range of Property, Risks & Coverage claims.

You will be responsible for drafting budgets, points of dispute, bills, schedules of costs, and other formal documents. You will also be expected to proactively review cases, formulate an initial costs strategy and settlement parameters, provide comprehensive advice to clients, and commence early telephone negotiations with opponents.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing your own caseload, progressing each file from receipt of papers to resolution of costs

- Preparing costs schedules, bills, points of dispute, and considering replies

- Identifying and documenting strengths and weaknesses of your case and the opponent's case

- Negotiating settlement of costs via telephone

- Updating clients on progress made in resolving costs claimed

- Handling correspondence and telephone calls within SLAs

- Reviewing files periodically in line with client requirements

- Settling costs within agreed negotiation parameters

- Instructing counsel and attending conferences, detailed assessment hearings, and mediations

- Delivering agreed performance targets, quality standards, and client SLAs, KPIs, and MI requirements

- Delegating tasks to a Paralegal and supporting their development

The role requires:

- A degree and/or LPC and/or ALCD

- Previous experience of client liaison

- Good telephone negotiation skills

- Understanding of current cost case law and insurance litigation practice and process

- Ability to use own initiative and make decisions

- Excellent listening and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work as part of a team

- Proficient IT skills in Microsoft packages

Working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. The primary location for this role is the Bolton office.

## Benefits

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support, and virtual wellbeing covering various topics

- Death In Service – after 1 year's service

- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer

- Employee Resource Groups

- Employee Volunteering Programme

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Tech Scheme

- Season Ticket Loan

- Gym Flex

- Access to Online Discount Sites

- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership

- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide

- Discounts at local retail outlets

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft packages
- client liaison
- telephone negotiation
- cost case law
- insurance litigation practice

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