# Junior Costs Negotiator

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Junior Costs Negotiator to join our Legal team in Birmingham. As a Junior Costs Negotiator, you will be responsible for pursuing the settlement of legal costs on a range of MOD disease claims. Your goal will be to settle costs as soon as practicably possible.

Key responsibilities include:

- Proactively reviewing cases to formulate an initial costs strategy and settlement parameters

- Preparing points of dispute and considering replies

- Identifying and documenting strengths and weaknesses of own case and opponent's costs claimed

- Using the telephone to discuss, put forward meritorious arguments, and negotiate settlement of costs

- Updating reports to clients of progress made in resolving costs claimed

- Dealing with correspondence and telephone calls received within SLAs

- Undertaking periodic reviews of files in line with client requirements

- Settlement of costs within agreed negotiation parameters

- Instructing counsel and attending conferences, detailed assessment hearings, and mediations, remotely and in person

- Attending court for application hearings, detailed assessment hearings, and mediations remotely and in person to conduct own advocacy

- Delivery of agreed performance targets, Keoghs quality standards, and client's SLAs, KPIs, and MI requirements

- Delegating assigned tasks to a Paralegal and being fully engaged in their development

- Ensuring compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations

The ideal candidate will have:

- A degree and/or LPC and/or ALCD

- Previous experience of client/customer liaison, taking instructions, and providing advice both verbally and in writing

- Knowledge of the Detailed Assessment process and the relevant CPR provisions relating to costs

- Good telephone negotiation skills

- An understanding of current cost case law and insurance litigation practice and process

- Ability to use own initiative and make decisions

- Ability to plan and prioritise workloads and to remain calm under pressure

- Excellent listening and verbal communication skills

- Ability to act as part of a team

- Proficient IT skills in Microsoft packages

Benefits include:

- 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 a whole host of 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
- telephone negotiation
- Detailed Assessment process
- CPR provisions
- cost case law
- insurance litigation practice

### Nice to have
- junior costs negotiator role
- client/customer liaison
- LPC
- ALCD

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