KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists

Firm Details: 

• Directors: Tom Mullin, Director & Head of Costs; Becky Fasting, Director & Practice Manager; Colin Carr; Director for Business Development; Jon Powell, Director and Head of Operations.
• Senior Management Team: Tom Mullin, Head of Costs; Becky Fasting, Practice Manager; Colin Carr, Business Development; Jon Powell, Operations; Adam Grant, Costs Lawyer; and David Alan Hughes, Costs Lawyer.
• Number of other fee earners, not less than 20 fee earning and non-fee earning (support staff), across dedicated and specialist Drafting, Negotiation and Business Support Teams.
• Offices: Liverpool (Head Office), Leeds, and London.

Firm Overview: 

• KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists is a well-established, well-respected civil and commercial costs practice, founded in Liverpool as a family business in 2013, and has outlived much larger costs firms by continuing to focus on quality not quantity, growing sustainably, and working collaboratively with others to achieve successful client outcomes. KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists has outgrown its original home, but maintained its original ethos by moving its Head Office to the heart of Liverpool’s independent business community hub, the Baltic Triangle, and which has been re-purposed it as its “costs centre of excellence”, to attract the brightest minds and deliver best-in-class training for its people and its clients.
• KE Costs Lawyers - Legal Costs Specialists has demonstrated that commitment to continuous improvement and providing a value-added service to its clients by recruiting and investing in highly-regarded Costs Lawyers, CLSB-accredited specialist trainers, and collaborating with apprenticeship providers to grow its people and future-proof the business, meeting ongoing client needs.
• KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists recently added offices, in Leeds and London, to serve a developing national client base, and meet increasing demand, with those clients describing the costs practice as its “costs provider of choice” and “a safe pair of hands”, in recognition of a team of talented and capable costs professionals and practitioners who can deal with the full spectrum of costs cases.
• KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists enjoys particularly strong following in areas such as Professional Negligence matters, including Clinical Negligence & Catastrophic Personal Injury; Industrial Disease, including dealing with the costs arising out of one of the highest compensation payments made out in this area of law, for an asbestos-related, fatal mesothelioma claim which settled for more than £5 million; was recently appointed as partner-in-Costs with a new Commercial Dispute powerhouse; and has been instructed on claims arising out of important public interest cases, including civil claims arising out of the Grenfell Tower Tragedy.

Areas of Practice: 

• Professional Negligence (Civil & Commercial).
• Clinical Negligence.
• Catastrophic Personal Injury.
• Industrial Disease.
• Commercial Disputes.

Head Office: 

• KE Costs Lawyers – Legal Costs Specialists, Unit 7 Baltic View, 10 Brick Street, Liverpool. L1 0BL.
• Jon Powell, Costs Lawyer & Head of Operations <[email protected]>Jon Powell. T: 0151 245 1819 | DD: 0151 245 7131.