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Law Cost Specialists
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Forward-thinking Law Costs Draftsmen & specialist Costs Lawyers
Navigate legal costs seamlessly with IG Legal. Our expert team offers comprehensive services, ensuring maximum recovery and expert guidance from Civil Litigation to the Court of Protection.
Services We Offer
Our expert team of specialist costs lawyers offer a comprehensive legal costs service in all aspects of costs drafting from Civil Litigation to the Court of Protection and can help you recover a range of legal costs and provide expert advice and guidance throughout the process.
Civil Litigation
Our experienced Costs Draftsmen are experts in civil litigation billing and inter partes cost negotiation. We work with you to make sure the bill of costs minimises any points of dispute and helps you recover the maximum amount.
Family
Our Law Costs Draftsmen understand how to maximise cost recovery in both private and legal aid family cases. We ensure any bill of costs is prepared and processed without delay and any issues are resolved quickly.
Criminal Billing
IG Legal is one of the leading Law Costs Draftsman firms for criminal billing and has a wealth of experience and expertise. Our experience of the Criminal Justice system allows us to ensure maximum cost recovery.
Housing
Our experienced Draftsman have an understanding of the law and the legal principles of recovery of costs, whether it is a legally aided matter, Conditional Fee Agreement or recovery of costs from a third party.
Court of Protection
We have extensive experience and expertise in handling the recovery of costs for Appointed Deputies and other participants in Court of Protection proceedings. We work carefully to ensure that both parties are remunerated fairly.
Immigration & Asylum
Here at IG Legal, we are able to offer a comprehensive service to Immigration and Asylum lawyers across the UK.
Electronic PPC Claims
As professional costs draftsmen, we submit these types of claims on an almost daily basis and have a comprehensive understanding of how the LAA approaches assessing them.
Legal Costs Solutions
For All Areas Of Law
We have experience in dealing with legal costs complementing your legal services at both County and High Court level, as well as in the Court of Appeal. Our team of specialist costs lawyers are able to meet special requirements and offer a bespoke service to meet your needs.
In addition, with the ever-changing landscape in legal aid we have adapted to be a forerunner in billing on Government platforms including, but not limited to the Crown Court billing platform and on CCMS.
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What Our Clients Say
This skill has also assisted greatly both with clients and counsel where his advice has assisted greatly to explain confusing and dry details of costs and possible outcomes. He does this in a clear and concise manner so that they are confident, and in the client’s case reassured in the process.
I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending him as a specialist cost draftsman.
Why Choose Us?
Expertise and Specialisation At IG Legal, our team comprises seasoned Law Costs Draftsmen and specialist Costs Lawyers who bring a wealth of experience to the table. Each professional is dedicated to mastering the intricacies of legal cost practices, ensuring that our clients receive tailored and expert guidance.
We take pride in offering competitive and bespoke cost drafting services that cater to a diverse range of legal areas. Whether you are involved in private client matters, civil litigation, commercial litigation, or legal aid billing, our team is equipped to provide solutions that align with your unique requirements.
Our commitment to a client-centric approach forms the cornerstone of our services. We understand that every legal scenario is unique, and our forward-thinking approach enables us to craft solutions that not only meet but exceed your expectations. We work closely with you to understand your specific needs, ensuring a personalised and responsive service.
Navigating the intricate landscape of legal costs requires a blend of efficiency and precision. IG Legal is dedicated to introducing streamlined working practices that enhance efficiency and profitability for law firms and fee earners. We provide valuable feedback on areas for improvement, reflecting our proactive commitment to your success.
Our expertise extends across various legal domains, allowing us to complement your legal services seamlessly. Whether it’s at County and High Court levels or within the Court of Appeal, our team of specialist costs lawyers is adept at meeting special requirements, offering a bespoke service tailored to your needs.
In an ever-changing legal aid landscape, IG Legal remains at the forefront, adapting to new challenges and regulations. As forerunners in billing on Government platforms, including the Crown Court billing platform and CCMS, we leverage our experience to navigate legal aid billing efficiently.
Legal Aid Claims
We have vast experience in the legal profession and are an experienced legal aid provider and make use of an established system for bills of costs creation and submitting all aspects of legal aid costs. We are a forerunner on the CCMS system and the Crown Court billing platform and can provide detailed advice and guidance to ensure that it is used correctly and efficiently in regards to legal costs.
Our Cost Draftsman will work with you in all aspects of Civil Litigation billing to help you prepare a claim for costs, challenge an opponent solicitor’s bill of costs or providing guidance through the detailed assessment of costs process.
Let our experience be your guide
The wide range of legal services we offer and areas of billing that we cover enables us to fully understand any legal billing situation and to help our clients navigate their way through the complex billing process from a detailed assessment of costs to bills of costs creation.
Our view is that a good law costs draftsman should deliver efficiencies and increase profits, more than paying for themselves. That is what we do at IG Legal. Can you afford not to get in touch to see how we can help you recovery legal costs and help your business grow? Avoid delays and get it right the first time with IG Legal. Get in Touch now.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Costs Lawyer is a qualified and regulated legal professional who specialises in the law and practice of legal costs. A Costs Lawyer has attained rights of audience and rights to conduct costs litigation
A Costs Lawyer has the necessary skills and experience to draft bills of costs (standard and electronic), prepare and negotiate Costs Budgets, draft Points of Dispute and Reply, make offers and reach settlements without court process and arrange for Provisional / Detailed Assessment of a Bill of Costs where court process is required, undertake advocacy and general litigation.
A costs draftsman or costs lawyer will perform the following tasks;
- Drafts Bills and Schedules of Costs
- Assist with preparation of costs budgets
- Advises clients on the costs budgets prepared by the opposing party
- Draft points of dispute and replies of costs
- Acts as mediator in any cost disputes
- Prepares retainer and fee arrangements between clients and legal advisors
- Advises clients and legal professionals on disputes
Costs in law consist of;
- Costs payable between parties where an unsuccessful party pays the successful party’s costs
- Solicitor and own client costs which is the amount the client pays their solicitor
- Legal aid costs where a solicitor is representing a publicly funded client
A Costs Lawyer is a qualified and regulated legal professional who specialises in the law and practice of legal costs. A Costs Lawyer has attained rights of audience and rights to conduct costs litigation. A Law Costs Draftsman is an experienced and skilled professional who also specialises in the law and practice of legal costs. Law Costs Draftsmen have rights of audience when they have been engaged to appear at a private hearing to assist in the conduct of litigation and are instructed by a qualified litigator
Solicitors need a Costs Draftsman as they will lack the knowledge, experience and time to prepare their own bills. Cost Draftsman will prepare a bill of costs and also help solicitors maximise their recovered legal costs, also providing expert advice and guidance
To Complain about your Costs Draftsman or Costs Lawyer you should first raise it with their own complaints procedure as contained within the initial client care letter / terms and conditions sent, at which point they have 8 weeks to resolve your complaint. In the case of a complaint against a Costs Lawyer and If your complaint hasn’t been resolved in 8 weeks then you may refer it to the CLSB (for conduct complaints) or the Legal Ombudsman (for service complaints)