Welcome to PIC Pod-Costs!

Our final episode looks at the essential costs concepts every trainee solicitor needs to know.

This episode were unpacking the most fundamental principle in English legal costs,

Episode 8 we look at a crucial aspect of costs recovery in litigation, the certificate to a Bill of Costs.

Episode 7 we look at the differences between Provisional Assessment, Summary Assessment and Detailed Assessment of Costs.

This episode we look at Costs Documents specifically we will explore the differences between the N260, Statement of Costs, Old Style Traditional Bill of Costs and the Precedent S.

This episode discuss Hourly Rates.

This episode we look at a topic that every trainee should know when dealing with costs, the Fee Earner Grades.

This episode we are discussing the difference between standard basis and indemnity basis costs orders.

In this episode, we’re exploring the indemnity principle with Lee Dixon.

Over the next 10 weeks, Partners in Costs, will be posting trainee bitesize ‘Day One Digest’ sessions for trainee and newly qualified members of your team. These will be 10 weekly, 5 minute podcasts available to your teams that focus on costs-specific points that everyone needs to know, but on day one, no one does.

Erica Bedford and Sharn Khaira join Lee and Kayleigh today to discuss Women in Costs. Lee displays Sir Michael Parkinson levels of interviewing skill whilst we explore Erica and Sharn's community plans.

Join Dom and Lee as they interview solicitors Nadia and Shiwani about being exposed to costs as a trainee, and some tips they share to help your newer fee earners deal with costs

Dom and Lee vent about fee remissions on inter partes costs and offer some practical advice on what you need to do.

Join Dom and Lee as they meander through budgeting pros, cons and tips, the latest review recommendations and some classic 80s animation. They provide their thoughts, a rant, and attempt to break the record for most uses of the word fundamentally.

Join Dominic Woodhouse and Lee Dixon as they explore indemnity costs orders, chatting about whether they have any bite and how they work with the new fixed costs regime, or how they do not…

In this one-off special podcast, Dom and Lee chat about PIC’s Total Timeline + service, how this works and what this means for solicitors.

Lee and Dom look at time recording for law firms, providing some guidance and tips to improve time recording.