Top Level Salary - Senior Costs Lawyer - 1 day a week in office
- Employer
- Hays Legal
- Location
- England, West Yorkshire
- Salary
- £Above market
- Closing date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Reference
- 4645137
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Litigation/Dispute Resolution
- PQE
- 4-6 Years, 7+ Years
Job Details

Largely remote/1 day a week in Leeds - exceptional salary package - occasional travel to London
My client seeks a qualified costs lawyer (minimum 5 years' experience - pre or post qualification) with experience of working with City firms or equivalent large commercial practices.
This dynamic international law firm focusses on the resolution of complex disputes, transactions and also regulatory matters. This high-end practice is looking to recruit an additional costs lawyer to join the UK team, supporting litigators in London, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The firm's litigators specialise in general commercial litigation as well as shipping, banking, employment, property, patents and are involved in court litigation and arbitrations.
You'll work with world-class lawyers across multiple cities. All within a structure offering exceptional support, resources and reach. Day to day you will prepare costs schedules, statements of costs and detailed bills of costs - reviewing and commenting on documents submitted by other parties. Preparing and advising on costs budgets and client estimates. Preparation and advising on schedules in support of applications for security for costs and requests for payments on account. Working with the litigators to advise clients on strategy relating to costs recovery and the wider issues arising from related questions of procedure.
This is an exceptional and rare opportunity to be based largely from home, being part of a highly collegiate team and firm.
To learn more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Adele Callaghan or email for a return call to have a confidential discussion regarding this role.
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Company
Hays Legal provides an integrated recruitment solution to the UK's Legal and Company Secretarial sectors. Working across a nationwide network of offices, we offer employers and jobseekers a highly specialised recruitment service for permanent and interim positions across all business sectors, skill sets and levels of seniority.
We have a proven track record spanning almost 20 years in all areas of Legal and Company Secretarial recruitment, from one-off contingency requirements through to large-scale recruitment campaigns and wider employee management solutions.
We offer confidential, expert advice on job opportunities, compensation, business plans and exit strategies pertinent to professionals considering a move. We have the ear of key decision makers across all our clients and we have been instrumental in introducing and placing hundreds of fee earners and company secretaries into a vast array of organisations. From blue chip corporates, national and international firms through to niche practices, we have deep knowledge of the legal company secretary market.
If an organisation has strategic growth plans or needs incisive market analysis, we are often consulted as a first point of contact.
- Website
- https://www.hays.co.uk/job-search
- Telephone
- 020 3465 0139
- Location
-
107 Cheapside
London
EC2V 6DN
United Kingdom
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