Vacancy category: Dispute Resolution

Junior Costs Draftsperson/Trainee Costs Lawyer

  • 3 February 2026
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We have an exciting new opportunity for a Junior Costs Draftsperson/Trainee Costs Lawyer to join our Disputes group on a permanent and fulltime basis.

You must have prior costs experience ideally from a law firm, government department or within a costs agency. Someone with ambition to become a Costs Lawyer or someone who is either already on the Costs Lawyer Qualification Course or is willing to undertake it.

The main duties and responsibilities will be as follows:

  • Assisting with the preparation of bills of costs (including detailed assessment bills) under various bases and costs regimes.
  • Supporting senior costs lawyer with Points of Dispute, Replies, and schedules of costs and advices on costs issues.
  • Assisting with costs budgeting, monitoring budgets, and preparing updates and variations.
  • Helping to assess costs risk at different stages of litigation and advising fee earners accordingly.
  • Reviewing retainers, funding arrangements, and costs correspondence to ensure compliance with procedural rules to include dealing with solicitor client disputes.
  • Liaising with fee earners across departments (including Property Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Contentious Construction and Private Client disputes) on costs-related issues.
  • Assisting with negotiations and settlement discussions on costs.
  • Conducting legal research on costs law, CPR provisions, and recent case law developments.
  • Maintaining accurate records and supporting internal reporting on costs recovery.
  • Supporting the Costs team with court deadlines, assessments, and hearing preparation
  • Developing technical knowledge of CPR, Costs Practice Direction, and case law under supervision and assisting with the provision of costs training across the firm.

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Executive Assistant, Construction Disputes

  • 13 January 2026
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We have an exciting opportunity for an Executive Assistant to join our Construction Disputes team.

  • Act as a professional and client service focussed ambassador for partners internally and externally.
  • Take full ownership of diaries, proactively managing all appointments, meetings and related logistics, working with partners to ensure that their schedules run smoothly and that they are where they need to be, at the scheduled meeting time, and that they are prepared for each meeting.
  • Proactively manage diary conflicts and take appropriate action on queries or clashes.
  • As agreed with each individual partner, manage inboxes responding to emails on their behalf, drafting emails appropriately, forwarding any client critical emails to other fee earners and secretaries in the team to action and respond and highlight any urgent/important emails that partner needs to respond to.
  • Demonstrate commercial and financial management understanding, by handling complex compliance and billing matters.
  • Take full ownership of tasks and manage workload against deadlines and business needs, working effectively and collaboratively with central support departments to efficiently deliver to deadlines.
  • Coordinate the billing process on behalf of the partners, proactively organising WIP and other financial management meetings, working with the wider department and Client Administrators to ensure billing processes meet deadlines.
  • Take ownership of financial and matter management processes for the team, for example coordinating chasing up unpaid bills.
  • Work in partnership with partners, building highly effective relationships with each of them, ensuring good working practices are put in place and adopted.
  • Arrange regular catch ups with each partner to review their diary and commitments, to ensure that a good understanding of partners’ clients and priorities is developed to help the partners make the best use of their time.
  • Introduce and implement best practice around key operational processes to enhance partner effectiveness and department performance.
  • Attend meetings and take minutes if required and follow up on designated actions to ensure completion ahead of the next meeting.
  • Liaise with the Marketing & Business Development team and key contacts, proactively coordinating BD activities, playing a key role in the organisation of events, seminars & conferences for the team.
  • Arrange travel requirements, understand individual’s personal preferences and manage all arrangements from start to finish (including journey details, accommodation, visa requirements, currency) and update diary to reflect all information.
  • Develop a thorough understanding of the partners’ practice area(s), clients, priorities, the teamworking practices, and goals.
  • Be a role model, work closely with the Secretarial Team Leader, be seen as a change agent and show a willingness and confidence to make suggestions for change where appropriate.
  • Build strong relationships internally and externally.

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Harleen Grewal

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