Cost Administrator – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department – Nottingham
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Cost Administrator – Nottingham
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Costs Administrator to work in our Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department. The successful candidate would be based at our Nottingham Office and would support our Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department.
Nottingham office – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department
Full time – Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm (office based)
Salary – Above market rate – subject to experience
Job Specification:
- Assist with submitting Legal Aid bills via CCMS.
- Assist with preparing Legal Help claims.
- Assist with negotiating settlement with the paying party in Inter-Partes costs claims.
- Fully conversant with CCMS and legal aid systems. Uploading documents onto CCMS in a timely manner as per LAA requests.
- Dealing with any rejected claims and submitting appeals as necessary.
- Awareness of and aptitude to meet Legal Aid KPI’s.
- Ensuring compliance with Legal Aid rules and internal office policy.
- Liaising with Counsel’s Chambers in order to obtain fee notes for billing purposes.
- Allocating Counsel’s fees on CCMS.
- Liaising with fee earners.
- Undertaking other clerical and administrative duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.
Personal Specification:
- Ability to work under pressure and process a high volume of claims accurately.
- High level of numeracy and accuracy when dealing with figures.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment and autonomously, proactively managing your own caseload.
- Experience of using Case Management Systems.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge and understanding of Legal Aid Agency rules relating to assessment and recovery of solicitors costs in publicly funded files (preferable).
- Court rules for lodging bills (preferable).
- Court costs assessment procedures (preferable).
- Basic Accounting Principles (preferable).
- Experience of Judicial Review work (preferable).
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