We are a leading firm of costs draftsmen with expertise in recovering and opposing legal costs in both inter-partes assessments and solicitor and client costs assessments. We provide law costs draftsman services in a full spectrum of practice areas, including commercial litigation, professional negligence, clinical negligence, personal injury and civil liberties and human rights.
If you require a leading law costs draftsman in London, Birmingham, Southampton and surrounding areas, we are a forward-thinking firm of costs draftsmen committed to providing an exceptional service. Our costs draftsman team have a wealth of knowledge and experience in costs and a particular expertise in the costs budgeting process and detailed assessment procedure.
By instructing Athene Legal, you will receive a costs draftsman experienced in dealing with the costs in complex and high-profile litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Our law costs draftsmen have acted on behalf of many leading practices, as recognised by the leading independent legal directories.
If you are searching for a costs draftsman in London, contact us now to discuss your needs and receive a free, no obligation quotation.
Tyler is a Costs Lawyer experienced in dealing with all aspects of legal costs on behalf of many leading practices. He has expertise in the costs management process and detailed assessment procedure and has been involved in all spheres of legal costs, including high profile and international cases involving costs in excess of £20m.
Tyler has dealt with the legal costs in cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in a range of practices areas, from large commercial litigation to public international law and several group litigations.
He also spent two years as a Legal Project Manager at global law firm, DLA Piper, working with its UK, US, Dubai, Netherlands and Italy offices to manage large, complex litigation and arbitration projects, including a nine-figure construction arbitration and a banking group litigation concerning several hundred claimants.
Tyler was awarded the Association of Costs Lawyers Cup by Senior Costs Judge, Master Gordon-Saker.
Our costs draftsman team prepare statements of costs for interim hearings, mediation, consequential hearings and following settlement.
A law costs draftsman is a specialist lawyer who settles the legal costs of a court case. A law cost draftsman is the only branch of the legal profession with detailed knowledge and expertise in legal costs. An experienced law costs draftsman, such as those within our team, deals with a wide range of legal costs matters, including costs between the parties, solicitor and client costs, and legal aid or public funding.
Legal costs is a complex and unique area of law. Utilising their expertise, a law cost draftsman can draft costs pleadings with a high level of accuracy and provide pragmatic advice on complex costs issues in a digestible form, which is essential to either justifying or opposing legal costs.
For law firms, instructing a law cost draftsman allows the solicitor to focus on case management, leaving the law cost draftsman to deal with costs management.
Whilst a law costs draftsman is a highly specialist legal professional, a costs lawyer will, in addition, be a qualified and regulated lawyer. We are members of the Association of Costs Lawyers and regulated by the Costs Lawyer Standards Board, meaning we consistently deliver a high quality of service to all clients.
