2 November, 2011

Costs lawyer’s 100% success rate

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Just received email from costs drafting recruitment agency for costs lawyer who “has successfully maintained a record of achieving 100% success in court cases over a 16 year period”.

Is this something to shout about?

Discuss.

Comments

5 Responses to “Costs lawyer’s 100% success rate”

  1. Patrick on November 2nd, 2011 10:19 am

    Maybe he’s quite good. Or maybe he settles some cases that perhaps he should have proceeded with – only taking dead certain ones to court.

    Or maybe the recruitment agency made a typo.

  2. Truly Eminent Costs Professional on November 2nd, 2011 10:34 am

    If you are a claimant costs draftsman who practices in London this would not surprise me.

  3. Jon on November 2nd, 2011 12:13 pm

    Or went to one detailed assessment 16 years ago and has never been back since…

  4. Kevyn Thompson Longmynd Legal Services on November 2nd, 2011 12:18 pm

    Easy

    1.Never fight any case to court

    2. Always settle at an undervalue

    3. 100% success rate over 16 years

    If I was recruiting and wasfaced with that CV I would send the” Dear Sir I regret to inform you etc etc” letter.

    Clearly not fighting his client’s cases so as to maximise costs ecovery on time expended

    Very bad for business I would say

  5. Cherwell on November 2nd, 2011 12:28 pm

    Depends on what you mean by 100% success in court.

    I can quite categorically state that I have 100% success rate in both achieving costs of an action for my receiving party clients and 100% success rate in obtaining a reduction in costs of an action for by paying party clients.

    Then again most costs draftsmen can claim the same, unless you are one of the unlucky ones, who suffered a CFA wipeout (though you could argue that you where successful in obtaining the disbursements) or had the DJ from hell who would not even take a couple letters off the costs sought.

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