Experience

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  Wixted & co solicitors

  Sept 2004 - Jan 2011

  Senior costs draftsman

  Principal accountabilities and responsibilities:Drafting Bills of Costs and Schedules of Costs (~70% of my workload is multi-track cases which also very often involve 2-4 Defendants);Drafting Replies to Points of Dispute;Supervising 4 costs draftsmen;Maintaining and updating databases, templates and programs;Analysing and providing relevant statistics.Achievements:During my course of employment, the company grew 5 fold and I managed to deal with the exponentially growing number of cases;From 2009 became a supervisor of 4 costs draftsmen who had neither legal background nor previous costs drafting experience. I taught them costs drafting myself;Created and updated all costs drafting templates and programs (in Ms Excel and Ms Word);Created settlement and other databases;Created program for costs negotiation;Drafted a couple of thousand personal injury (including Industrial Disease cases) and payment protection insurance bills of costs; Show less

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  Civil and commercial costs lawyers ltd

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2016

  Senior costs draftsman

  Principal accountabilities and responsibilities:Drafting Bills of Costs (multi-track personal injury (including clinical negligence) and commercial cases);Drafting Costs Budgets;Drafting Replies to Points of Dispute;Drafting Points of Dispute;Negotiating Costs;Attending DA hearings, CCMCs and hearings of various applications;Providing relevant statistics.Achievements:Created settlement and other databases;Drafted the largest bills of costs in the company, reaching several millions of pounds in value;Created a program for costs negotiation;Worked with Idraft and CostsMaster software;Introduced CostsMaster software to our company and helped with the transition from Idraft to CostsMaster, which was more efficient;Successfully developed the importing of time ledgers of our largest client into CostsMaster and significantly increased the speed and efficiency of costs drafting. Show less

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  Burcher jennings

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

  Practice manager, costs lawyer

  Principal accountabilities and responsibilities:Drafting Bills of Costs (multi-track personal injury and commercial cases, also Court of Protection, Immigration, Housing, Supreme Court and various other cases);Drafting Costs Budgets;Drafting Replies to Points of Dispute;Drafting Points of Dispute;Negotiating Costs;Attending DA hearings, CCMCs and hearings of various applications;Supervising 2 costs draftsman;Attending inter-office meetings and participating in management of the company;Attending clients;Attending conferences.Achievements:Provided training in relation to new electronic bill of costs and import of new format time ledgers into CostsMaster;Wrote a management article;Became a Costs Lawyer in 2017;Dealt with over 60 different clients (mostly solicitors firms);Participated in the introduction of LEAP case management program. Show less