# Costs Negotiator

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Costs Negotiator to join our Legacy / Industrial Disease team in Birmingham. As a Costs Negotiator, you will be responsible for pursuing the settlement of legal costs as soon as practicably possible on a range of Legacy / Industrial Disease claims.

You will proactively review cases, formulate an initial costs strategy and settlement parameters, provide comprehensive advice to clients, commence early telephone negotiations with opponents, and liaise with insurers throughout the life of the file.

Key responsibilities include:

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

- 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

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

- Delivery of agreed performance targets, 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 role requires 12 months of experience as a minimum in a similar costs negotiator role, a degree and/or LPC and/or ALCD, previous experience of client liaison, and experience of the Detailed Assessment process.

Benefits include:

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year

- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

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

- Death in Service

- Critical Illness Cover

- PHI/Income Protection

- 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 skills
- Detailed Assessment process
- cost case law
- insurance litigation practice

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