BD Costs
- (0161) 507 8390
- [email protected]
- Castlefield House, Liverpool Rd, Manchester M3 4SB
BD Costs
- (0161) 507 8390
- [email protected]
- Castlefield House, Liverpool Rd, Manchester M3 4SB
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Experienced and agile...
Legal costs experts.
Be proactive
Commercial approach
All aspects
We offer a comprehensive service including: bills of costs, negotiations, dealing with disputes proactively and complex litigation cases where multiple parties are involved.
Costs budgeting
Our team ensures you comply with the requirements of the costs management process and prepare accurate costs budgets that you can confidently rely upon.
Fixed costs
Our specialist team are experts in the key issues surrounding ‘fixed costs‘ for law firms who are impacted by ongoing civil reforms relating to fees particularly for personal injury work.
What We Do
Legal costs services
We provide law firms with a comprehensive and proactive costs service. Our experienced team work proactively to optimise the commercial outcome of each and every single matter relating to your practice.
We maximise recovery of costs and play a key role in the accounting and business function for your law firm. We work with award-winning law firms with a variety of costs models and are agile in our approach to play a key role in the smooth running of your firm’s operations.
About Us
Collaborative approach to costs
We are an experienced team of legal costs experts based in Manchester.
Our clients are law firms who have multiple offices geographically in the UK and who are looking to ensure a simple bolt-on service to their existing operations.
We always look to provide bespoke and innovative ways of ensuring that all necessary future steps are accounted for within your budget and that the costs of those steps are properly explained to the Court so as best to maximise recovery of those costs.
We will aim to deal with this with minimal disruption to yourselves in order that you may concentrate on the case management aspect of your client’s claim.
Our approach
Work Together
For Success
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Proactive
Proactive in everything we do for our people and our clients to get the best outcome.
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Commercial
Always putting our client’s commercial interests firsts when analysing costs.
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Specialist
Always investing in high quality, experienced professionals in our sector.
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Relationship
We develop long-term relationships with our clients and we are a trusted adviser.
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What our clients say
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The entire team at BD Costs are proactive, commercially-minded and professional in their approach. The team are skilled at operating in the fast-changing serious injury sector.
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We are very happy to work with BD Costs. The team understands our business and are a perfect extension to our team of specialist serious injury lawyers.
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We are pleased to work closely with BD Costs. We can't recommend their team highly enough for professional, diligent and proactive costs work.
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Meet Our
Team
Brian Dempsey
Director
Brian has been a Legal Costs Draftsman for some 27 years working in-house for a number of PI firms of varying sizes before moving to external costs specialists. He has worked externally for some 20 years before setting up BD Costs some 5 years ago. Brian has dealt with costs on a variety of matters but predominately focuses on personal injury and clinical negligence. He regularly attends Court on a variety of matters ranging from contested fixed costs matters through to multi-million pound budget matters and all matters in between. Familiar with a number of technical aspects relating to costs, Brian is happy to (and regularly does) provide advice and assistance in relation to numerous aspects relating to costs.
Chris Hughes
Drafting Manager
Chris has more than 20 years’ experience working in costs. Chris regularly prepares Bills on high value multi-track claims and deals with matters through to settlement/assessment. Outside of work Chris is a keen football fan and music fan.
David Knowles
Senior Costs Draftsman
Having entered the world of costs pre-Woolf reforms, David has a wealth of experience dealing with a multitude of cases from low value personal injury claims to high value clinical negligence claims and everything in between, to include industrial disease, employer’s liability and holiday illness, and has an extremely high success rate at both Provisional and Detailed Assessment, often Part 36 offers and securing the requisite 10% award for the Client as a bonus. David also strives to ensure that a quality product is provided with a view to maximising the Client’s recovery.
Helen Walker
Senior Costs Draftsman
Helen joined the firm in March 2020. Helen holds over 14 years costs experience and has dealt with many high value and complex cases, mainly relating to catastrophic injury and medical negligence, including substantial birth injury matters. In addition, she has also dealt with general personal injury work including Industrial Disease and Stress matters; Professional Negligence costs; Reparation costs; Commercial costs and Solicitor/ Client. Helen deals with all of her matters from cradle to grave and also deals with budgeting aspects during the substantive action. She finds exploring and engaging in technical arguments of a particular interest. In her spare time Helen enjoys relaxing by travelling with her family (albeit airports can be testing with her 1 year old) and she also enjoys cooking and growing her own produce.”
Kira O'Hara
Costs Solicitor
Kira joined the firm in September 2021. She was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in March 2019 and deals with all elements of costs ranging from Multi-Track, high value and complex matters to Enforcement. Kira also undertakes advocacy work for BD Costs. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family and socialising with friends and family.
Vicky Morris
Senior Costs Draftsman
Vicky is a Senior Costs Draftsman, she started working in costs 10 years ago drafting schedules and N260’s and has now progressed to dealing with high value Multi-Track claims. Vicky has dealt with a variety of work spanning from Court of Protection and Commercial Litigation to Personal Injury, Industrial Disease, and Clinical Negligence with multiple Claimant and Defendant cases. Vicky deals with both budgets and bills dealing with matters from “cradle to grave”
Michael Hollin
Draftsman
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