Seamlessly expand your practice with costs law expertise.

Kansei Legal works with private, in-house and government litigation practices to deal with all aspects of party/party costs – from complex proceedings with many parties, to simple guidance to keep your matter moving along.

Specialising in the federal and Victorian jurisdictions, we bring years of experience in private practice and in-house in a fast-paced litigation practice to help complete your matters, your way. Save time and get back to what you do best, while ensuring all-round client satisfaction.

Services

  • Make your way through costs procedure quickly and confidently.

    Kansei provides a full suite of inter-partés costs law services, including:

    • Bills of costs and taxation

    • Lump sum / gross sum applications and expert responses

    • Settlement advice, negotiation, and mediation

    • Preparation and assessment of offers

    • Assessment of claims pursuant to adverse costs orders, including inspection of files

    • Security for costs applications

    • Advice on briefs to costs barristers and debt recovery specialists

  • Engage Kansei early for on-demand advice throughout a matter.

    Be completely prepared for strategy and client conferences, mediation, and hearings, with up-to-date estimates and a proactive costs strategy.

    Make the right submissions, and get the right costs orders. Rapidly recover costs and finalise cases following the grant of costs orders.

    Minimise the likelihood of costs assessment, but be better placed in the event it is required.

  • Provide all your teams with rapid, on-demand advice, at discounted rates.

    This service is designed for practices which would benefit from start-to-finish advice across a range of matters, and/or often need to deal with isolated costs questions or issues. Freely access specialist help before you’re sure whether a full brief is required – without wasting time on multiple procurements.

    Kansei’s retainer service is flexible in length, and specialised to fit the needs and systems of your practice.

    Try it out, risk free: The initial consultation is complimentary, and we will happily roll-over any unused hours—at the discounted rate—into other services charged at an hourly rate.

  • Costs recovery for in-house and government legal practitioners can look very different from private practice.

    Access years of experience as an in-house costs lawyer in a busy regulatory litigation practice. Get specialist advice on niche areas which have a broad impact, tailored to your practice.

    These might include:

    • Appropriate hourly rates for party/party costs recovery

    • Who should time record and when

    • Record-keeping to maximise costs recovery

    • Monitoring and assessing organisational costs recovery

    • Investigation costs recovery.

  • Maximise your client’s costs recovery & minimise the impact of adverse costs orders across the board. Save your team time from the ground up.

    Kansei offers tailored training on costs law, file management and time recording.

    Often overlooked, these skills can help practitioners at all levels feel more confident when it comes to costs and examination of their records. Avoid common pitfalls, and have all your questions answered.

Contact

Reach us at April.Scarlett@kanseilegal.com.au.

We’ll arrange an initial teleconference.