Richard is an Associate in our in-house specialist Costs Unit.
He has over 15 years of legal experience, six of which was spent in a Legal 500 firm specializing in claimant industrial disease work and multitrack personal injury matters.
Richard has also undertaken legal auditing work nationally for an ATE insurer, developing an interest and specialty in costs during this time.
On a day-to-day basis, he deals with a range of costs disputes for both paying and receiving parties. Richard has developed a particular specialty in Section 75 Consumer Credit Act claims for banks, and claims arising out of insurance and financial mis-selling. In addition, Richard has developed a particular specialty in respect of costs budgeting, including the preparation of budgets exceeding £1 million.
As well as his costs work, Richard has been involved in a number of projects, including s166 investigations and managing a caseload of issued PPI claims on behalf of one of our banking clients.
Richard has also been involved in a delivering a number of training sessions on costs to a number of clients, as well as being a regular contributor to the firm's costs publication Costs Guru.
Richard was called to the Bar in 2005 before cross-qualifying as a solicitor.