Legal employment contract

Costs Lawyer Employment Contract UK

Name: Costs Lawyer Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: legal_costs_lawyer_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define specialist legal-costs work across accurate drafting, proportionate advice, negotiation and authorised advocacy.

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This contract includes Analyse files funding and time records. Draft bills budgets and submissions. Advise on costs risk and procedure. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
Content owner: HRHeaven employment documentation team
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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.

Role-specific duties

Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.

Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

Before you create it

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When to use this contract

Produce accurate defensible costs documents, deliver clear client advice on recovery risk, and maintain well-prepared assessment and negotiation.

Workplace context: Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering case types caseload and deadlines. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering funding time records bills and budgets. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering negotiation advocacy offers and settlement. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering professional duties conflicts and CPD. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering SRA-related procedures.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The lawyer cannot certify unsupported work, guarantee recovery, settle beyond authority, conceal conflicts or exercise rights outside current authorisation. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

the costs services and jurisdictions
the qualification and advocacy scope
the drafting and time-record systems
the offer settlement and sign-off authority
the supervising partner finance and compliance routes

Day-to-day operating brief

What Costs Lawyer work looks like in practice

A Costs Lawyer advises on legal costs, prepares or challenges bills and budgets, negotiates settlements and may conduct authorised advocacy. Terms should cover case types, time records, cost schedules, funding arrangements, court deadlines, estimates, proportionality, points of dispute, advocacy, conflicts and continuing competence. The lawyer should not inflate recoverability, treat incomplete time narratives as proven work or give an undertaking about payment beyond actual authority. A bill narrative should let a reader understand the work without revealing unnecessary privileged strategy. When rates, funding arrangements or proportionality assumptions change during a matter, the costs lawyer should preserve the applicable period and basis rather than applying the final position retrospectively to every historic entry. Counsel fees and expert disbursements should reconcile invoices, payments, tax and recoverability before certification.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Analyse files funding and time records.
Draft bills budgets and submissions.
Advise on costs risk and procedure.
Negotiate and attend assessments.
Maintain professional case records.

A realistic working scenario

The source file contains duplicate entries, so the costs lawyer reconciles them before certifying the bill rather than leaving them for an opponent to identify.

Outputs to agree

accurate defensible costs documents
clear client advice on recovery risk
well-prepared assessment and negotiation

Records and evidence

Matter funding basis and scope.
Time entry adjustment and reason.
Bill budget version and certification.
Offer hearing outcome and deadline.
Client files.
Attendance notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Supervising Solicitor, Practice Manager, Legal Director or Head of Department. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The lawyer cannot certify unsupported work, guarantee recovery, settle beyond authority, conceal conflicts or exercise rights outside current authorisation.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

Case management systems.
Document management systems.
Secure email.
Legal research tools.
Deadline or diary systems.

Workplace context

Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

Contract priorities

case types caseload and deadlines
funding time records bills and budgets
negotiation advocacy offers and settlement
professional duties conflicts and CPD

Information the employer should prepare

the costs services and jurisdictions
the qualification and advocacy scope
the drafting and time-record systems
the offer settlement and sign-off authority
the supervising partner finance and compliance routes

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Costs Lawyer contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for legal work.

Work setting

Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

Primary duties

Analyse files funding and time records.
Draft bills budgets and submissions.
Advise on costs risk and procedure.
Negotiate and attend assessments.

Tools and training to confirm

Case management systems.
Document management systems.
Secure email.
Legal research tools.

Governance focus

SRA context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering case types caseload and deadlines. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering funding time records bills and budgets. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering negotiation advocacy offers and settlement.

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Role wording

Costs Lawyer duties

Produce accurate defensible costs documents, deliver clear client advice on recovery risk, and maintain well-prepared assessment and negotiation.

Analyse files funding and time records. Draft bills budgets and submissions. Advise on costs risk and procedure. Negotiate and attend assessments. Maintain professional case records.

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What is added to the finished contract

The lawyer cannot certify unsupported work, guarantee recovery, settle beyond authority, conceal conflicts or exercise rights outside current authorisation.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering case types caseload and deadlines.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering funding time records bills and budgets.

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