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Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 850 people including 185 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

Job Role: Costs Draftsperson

Hours: 37.5 hours a week FTE

As the winner of Working Families’ ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Department: Health

Location: North West (Liverpool, Manchester or Leeds office)

Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

• 25 days’ annual leave
• Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
• Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
• 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
• Flexible, agile and home working
• BUPA
• Permanent health insurance
• Flexible pension scheme
• Medicash
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance
• Annual travel season ticket loan
• Dress for your day policy
• Training and development opportunities
• Financial contribution towards home working equipment

Role overview

Introduction to the role:

This role provides the opportunity to join one of the fastest growing teams in Hill Dickinson. The Health team have been growing year-on-year with a team of over 150 lawyers and national coverage, we are one of the leading firms providing legal advice and support to the NHS and independent healthcare organisations. There is also opportunity to assist both the Marine Business Group and Business Services Group with their costs requirements. This will involve dealing with a wide scope of costs requirements including costs budgeting and costs negotiation of high value commercial litigation and arbitrations.

Introduction to the team:

The Costs Team are built up of experienced costs litigation professionals based across London, Liverpool and Manchester. With extensive experience of dealing with high value costs ligation, costs budgeting, appeals, group litigation and technical challenges. Our experienced advocates regularly attend national court hearings across the country.

Key responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will be expected to provide dedicated costs support for litigation lawyers across several UK and International offices.
• Responsible for the management of a complex, high value caseload the individual will be drafting and considering costs estimates in arbitration and high court disputes, schedules of costs, bills of costs/budgets, negotiating costs to settlement, preparing costs submissions in arbitration proceedings and some advocacy.
• The role involves dealing with both adverse and recovery costs claims on predominantly multi track and arbitration matters.
• This role requires a self-starter with the confidence to work autonomously, working on files from start to finish.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an experienced Costs Draftsperson or Costs Lawyer with a proven and demonstrable legal career in costs with experience dealing with high value claims. Experience of marine and shipping claims would be useful.

Essential:

• Extensive experience working as a Costs Draftsperson handling your own caseload
• Experience of drafting points of dispute, points of reply, costs budgets and bills of costs
• Experience of preparing detailed costs estimates and security for costs applications
• Attendance at CCMC hearings
• IT literate, particularly Excel, to include knowledge of using Costsmaster
• Up to date knowledge of the CPR and legislation
• Management of own caseload
• Excellent communication, organisation and research skills
• Adherence to guidelines and procedures
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• A flexible approach to work
• Ability to work as a team and independently

Desirable:

• Attendance at Detailed Assessment hearings
• Clinical negligence costs experience
• Knowledge of arbitration costs
• Experience of dealing with shipping and maritime costs

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means that we will make reasonable adjustments to help you perform at your best. Please contact the HR team at [email protected] should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

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