We have extensive experience in both recovering costs on behalf of receiving parties and opposing costs on behalf of paying parties. Whether our clients require preparation of a costs budget, bill of costs, points of dispute or pragmatic advice, an experienced legal costs draftsman at Athene Legal can help with every aspect of the costs budgeting process through to the detailed assessment of costs.
We provide a complete costs draftsman service, and deal with the legal costs in a wide range of matters funded under private retainers, conditional fee agreements, damages-based agreements, third party litigation funding and legal aid.
Our legal costs draftsman team prepare detailed and comprehensive bills of costs that justify the costs claimed and maximise recovery of costs.
Our legal costs draftsman team prepare costs budgets that accurately reflect the important interaction between case and costs management.
Our legal costs draftsman team prepare statements of costs for interim hearings, mediation, consequential hearings and following settlement.
Our legal costs draftsman team are experienced in negotiating costs on behalf of and against leading top 100 UK law firms and major insurers.
Our legal costs draftsman team prepare points of dispute and reply that are clearly written and set out concisely the nature and grounds of the argument.
Our legal costs draftsman team provide support throughout the entire detailed assessment procedure, including representation at detailed assessment hearings.
Our legal costs draftsman team represent both solicitors and clients in disputes over the amount of costs charged by solicitors to clients.
Our team of experts provide bespoke legal aid costs draftsman services where matters are funded under legal help and legal aid.
A legal aid costs draftsman can recover legal costs from the Legal Aid Agency, but if the claim is successful and an inter-partes costs order is made, a legal aid costs draftsman can also recover legal costs from the unsuccessful party. A specialist legal aid costs draftsman will be able to prepare a six-column bill of costs (as opposed to a three-column bill) and ensure that the appropriate costs are claimed from both the LAA and the unsuccessful party.
We are experienced in dealing with the costs in high-profile and substantial litigation. We provide costs draftsman services to many leading practices and ranked lawyers, as recognised by the leading independent legal directories. By choosing Athene Legal, you will be instructing a legal costs draftsman with a wealth of knowledge and experience in costs.
Our clients trust us to deliver our costs draftsman service exercising the exact same care and attention to detail that they demonstrate during the substantive proceedings.
