Bond Turner
Fixed Costs Negotiator / Solicitor
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Fixed Costs Negotiator
Location: Liverpool / Hybrid
Salary: £Competitive + Bonus
Contract Type: Perm
Position Type: Full Time
Bond Turner is a leading law firm, proudly recognised by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. We are committed to ensuring access to justice for our clients and their families, providing expert legal services with a client-centered approach.
With offices in Liverpool and Bolton, we offer nationwide legal advice across a wide range of sectors.
Our areas of expertise include Credit Hire, Personal Injury, including Complex Injury, Clinical and Professional Negligence, Housing Disrepair, Group Action Claims and Public Inquiries. We are driven by a commitment to achieving successful outcomes, surpassing client expectations, and creating a supportive environment that empowers our employees to build fulfilling and rewarding careers.
We understand that our growth as a business is driven by the success of our people. We take pride in fostering a positive, collaborative work environment where everyone can contribute to our shared success. With exceptional support at every turn, every employee is empowered to reach their full potential.
We are currently recruiting for a Fixed Costs Negotiator to join our Liverpool office. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about achieving the best outcomes for clients, delivering excellent service, and progressing their career within a supportive legal environment.
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You will be responsible for negotiating costs on a variety of files, working closely with colleagues to ensure accurate, timely and commercially effective resolutions. This role involves managing your own caseload, engaging with opponents, and ensuring that cost negotiations are handled efficiently and strategically across predominantly RTA matters (Fast track, Intermediate Track & MOJ).
If you have drive, determination and ambition, and you're looking for a stimulating and rewarding career, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Negotiating costs on a wide range of files, ensuring the best possible settlement for clients
- Assessing the reasonableness and recoverability of costs in line with CPR and case law
- Providing dedicated costs support to colleagues across the department and wider business
- Working closely with the team and Department Manager to ensure negotiation targets are achieved
- Managing your own caseload efficiently, ensuring deadlines and service expectations are met
- Maintaining awareness of claim lifecycles and adapting negotiation strategy accordingly
- Contributing to departmental processes and best practices
- Demonstrating initiative, strong analytical skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Understanding legal processes, costs principles and internal case management systems
- Being proactive, enthusiastic and adaptable within a fast‑paced environment
About You:
- Experience as a Costs Negotiator or in a similar fixed costs-focused role (2 years desirable but open to circa 12 months)
- Strong understanding of the CPR, fixed costs tables, costs rules, case law and relevant legislation
- Experience negotiating costs
- Excellent communication, organisation and analytical skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience using Proclaim or similar case management systems (desirable)
- Tenacity, professionalism and the ability to build constructive working relationships
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Company Values:
We’re a collaboration of companies established in 2006 working towards and guaranteeing the same goal. Our mission: We are driven to succeed. Our purpose is to help people move on in their lives through supporting our clients, our communities and each other.
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What we offer in return:
- We offer a clean professional office working environment with fantastic facilities in the heart of Liverpool City Centre which has great travel links.
- A competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- 23 days holiday + your Birthday off + plus 8 bank holidays.
- Income protection, dental plan, critical illness cover & death in service cover
- Employee Assistant Programme.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Free onsite weekly classes and well-being programmes.
- Discounted onsite Restaurant, Coffee Shop / Café.
- Secure bike storage.
- The opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with a wonderful Law firm.
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