Legal Cost Specialists

October 2011

Costs management

Richard Langley, writing in the Solicitors Journal, commenting on costs management records: Courts have always grappled with how to manage cases and had a variety of tools at their disposal for this purpose. In 1595, the Master of the Rolls decided in one chancery case that the pleading, at 120 pages long, was eight times

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Above the law

I recently received, from a well-known firm of claimant lawyers, a set of Replies. In support of the Replies and the refusal to disclose the conditional fee agreements was a statement from the managing partner of the firm. This explanation included the following: “Defendants’ request for early disclosure of our CFAs is made in an

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Risk assessment

A further definition from The (Alternative) Legal Costs Dictionary: Risk assessment n. document that identifies the litigation risks of the case which is prepared prior to there being sufficient evidence available to identify the litigation risks of the case. A document carefully and methodically drafted to suggest a level of risk such as, if it

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