Legalcost is a boutique firm offering a comprehensive legal costing services.
Bills of Costs and Costs Assessment
Legalcost can assist you through the entire process of legal costs recovery in litigious matters. We prepare Bills of Costs for formal costs assessment by the Courts, Notices of Objections to Bills of Costs and Responses to Notices of Objections.
Legalcost will represent your client on costs assessment before the Court, using our experience and expertise to maximise recovery and minimise liability.
General Legal Costing Advice
Legalcost provides a full suite of legal costing advice services, including advising on offers of settlement in costs negotiations, preparing an assessment of professional costs and disbursements to assist in negotiations, responding to formal submissions on costs, preparing valuations on Work in Progress, and presenting in-house seminars on legal costing in accordance with the ACT Law Society’s CPD requirements.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
As part of our commitment to achieving practical and cost-effective outcomes for our clients and the legal industry, we offer independent arbitration and mediation services in inter-partes matters in solicitor and client disputes.
We utilise our depth of experience and judgement to come to a fair assessment of costs liabilities without the time and expense of the formal costs assessment process.
Expert Evidence
As Canberra’s leading costs experts, Legalcost can provide independent expert reports and evidence on all matters pertaining to legal costs. The team at Legalcost have a wealth of experience in advising on and appearing in costs disputes in a variety of litigious matters.
We regularly apply this expertise as independent experts to assist parties and the Courts in resolving costs disputes.