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After completing my law degree and LPC, I was unemployed and unsure where to start my legal career. I would eventually join Bolt Burdon Kemp in March 2022 as a Paralegal in the Legal Costs team; an exciting and challenging opportunity as I had very limited knowledge of Costs Law at this point. Within months […]

My day-to-day work varies from drafting bills of costs, N260s, points of reply, preparing advice on costs recovery and negotiating with defendants. Since joining BBK, whenever I have expressed an interest in trying a new task I have been encouraged to do so and given support when needed. After completing the LLB and LPC I […]

After completing my law undergraduate degree and then the LPC, I was trying to start my career in the legal world. However, I faced a lot of rejections for Paralegal and Trainee Solicitor roles, so I started to feel a little deflated. As I was searching endless job pages, I came across a trainee law […]

Tell us about your firm and your job role.. I work for MRN Solicitors., We are exclusively a costs law firm. I am Head of Costs and deal with all aspects of the job including drafting high value bills of cost in a variety of specialist areas, paying party work, Replies to Points of Dispute, […]

Amy discusses how she became involved in costs law and how her career has developed since. After completing my law degree I started working as a paralegal at a small law firm in London and was introduced to civil litigation. From a young age I had always been known as the argumentative and opinionated member […]

Sherrie Burrell is part of the 140-strong costs team at national law firm Irwin Mitchell. She is based in the firm’s Sheffield office and is coming to the end of her first year on the ACLT’s Costs Lawyer Professional Qualification. I guess you could describe my route into the law as non-traditional. I left school […]

Sarah Jane Lewis has worked in the law ever since she left school at 16. Now, aged 24, she is halfway through the ACLT’s Costs Lawyer Professional Qualification and works for Cardiff-based costs practice, Phoenix Legal Services. I left school at 16 and took an apprenticeship role as an administrative assistant in the costs team […]