Legal Cost Assistant

3 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom Taylor & Emmet LLP Full time

Taylor&Emmet LLP is full-service law firm with offices in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. This success has been achieved by delivering the highest quality legal advice to business and private clients, many of whom have remained with the firm for generations. From Solicitors, qualified professionals and non-qualified Legal Assistants to Information Technology, Human Resources and Marketing, T&E provides a challenging career in a variety of areas. Whether starting or growing your career, T&E can offer a performance-driven culture filled with talented and innovative teams and colleagues.

Taylor Emmet is a leading regional practice in the heart of Sheffield city centre. We are known for our high quality ‘taylored’ Personal and Business Legal Services that we provide across our 5 offices in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

**BACKGROUND**:
An exciting position has arisen within our Finance Department. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Legal Costs Assistant to join a thriving Finance department and firm.

This is an exciting role for an experienced Legal Costs Assistant to work within the Finance Department and providing specialist support to those teams providing legal service with Legal Aid.
- Managing and setting up processes for regular billing
- Triggers for when certificates been issued
- Final check with fee earner
- Final hearing trigger
- Work effectively on the Client and Cost Management System, Legal Aid Agency Online and E forms to produce bills and facilitate support to fee earners also on these systems
- Support any appealed bills to the Legal Aid Agency or other relevant bodies should costs be disputed
- Ensure that bills are submitted and have been received by the relevant authority, files are satisfactorily finished, disbursements paid, and files closed
- Work with the Accounts and Finance team to produce various reports and MI relating to costs
- Allocation of payments
- Develop relationship and processes for referring work to external costs lawyers
- Payments on account (POA)
- Fixed fee billing
- Maintaining transfer files
- Escape fee billing
- Rejections / refusals
- Legal Helps
- Final Bills



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