An Update on Legal Costs

This paper provides a basic background and overview of issues and legislative requirements affecting legal costs in New South Wales following amendments to the Legal Profession Act 2004. This papers deals predominantly with legal costs as between you and your client and your legal obligations in relation to costs disclosure. The paper also briefly considers the difference between costs as between you and your client and between your client and another party and provides tips for ensuring that you get paid on time and with a minimum of fuss.

Presented by:
Jacqueline Highfield Senior Solicitor and Costs Consultant, DG Thompson Legal Costs on Monday 23 May 2011.

Jacqueline Highfield holds a Masters of Laws from Sydney University and was admitted as a solicitor in 1995. Jacqueline worked in a large commercial firm before joining DG Thompson as a legal costs consultant in early 2000.

Jacqueline has extensive and varied experience in legal costs law in all New South Wales and Federal jurisdictions having drawn bills of costs and advising on costs in many large and high profile matters. Jacqueline also lectures regularly on legal costs and provides expert reports as to costs and appears in Court in that capacity. Jacqueline also works as one of our in-house solicitor costs consultants.

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