A Digital First, Costs Draftsmen and Cost Lawyer Service
Led by qualified Costs Lawyers and a team of technology experts, our experienced Costs Lawyers and Costs Draftsman possess over 30 years of experience. We are independent experts that can help with your Costs Budgets, detailed Bills of Costs and detailed assessment/negotiation needs.
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What We Do Best
Our dedicated and experienced law costing team provide a wide array of legal costs services to fee earners and solicitors. Find out more by following the links below.
Bills of Costs
We pride ourselves in achieving an average recovery of 72% of all Bills. Our experts have experience in areas of commercial, serious injury, clinical negligence and civil disputes.
Costs Budgets & Management
We achieve an average of 81% of the value of the Costs Budgets drafted
Legal Aid (LAA) Billing
Our team have vast experience in quantifying, processing and obtaining payment in respect of your legal aid costs claims.
CPR 45 Fixed Recoverable Costs
CPR 45 Fixed Recoverable Costs are becoming a more and more common dispute in costs, and our team regularly prepare Precedent U fixed costs claims.
Legal Costs Training
We're experts in legal costs and pride ourselves in the results our team achieve. In-house or remote training sessions are available to be booked.
Detailed Assessment Proceedings
Our experienced Costs Lawyers are authorised to conduct detailed assessment proceedings and providing representation at any hearings.
What Makes Us Different?
ARC Costs is a bespoke team of experienced Costs Lawyers/Costs Draftsman, and technology/automation experts who provide a traditional costs service with a modern and digital approach within the legal services profession. We adopt where possible, digital techniques to expedite costing processes and improve turnaround times of all costing services.
Our team are independent experts, and can assist either Paying or Receiving Parties. For Receiving Parties, we focus on the recovery of costs through the preparation of Costs Budgets (Precedent H), Statements of Costs (N260) and Bills of Costs, as well as negotiation services.
For Paying Parties, we assist in reducing costs claims through handling of detailed assessment proceedings, and preparation of Points of Dispute.
Focused on Achieving the Best Results
Our Costs Draftsman services also extend to providing negotiation services to achieve the best outcome through Costs Budget Discussion Reports (Precedent R) or on your Bills of Costs, as well as providing a full detailed assessment advocacy service. We also assist with the recovery of inter-partes costs in publicly funded matters.
Nationwide Service
As a digital based law costing practice, our experienced law costs team can operate from anywhere and provide law costing services to the entirety of England and Wales at competitive cost. We hold both national and international accounts, and can provide legal costs drafting services in any legal matter to any practice looking for a prompt and customer focused costs partner.
Wherever your location, ARC Costs are the perfect Law Costs Draftsman partner for your law firm.
Answers to Your Questions
What makes ARC Costs Different from Competitors?
What sets ARC Costs apart is our digital-first, paperless model. We have designed every part of our process to be efficient, transparent, and measurable. Our secure cloud-based systems allow clients to upload case materials instantly, while our automated workflow ensures each matter is tracked, reviewed, and delivered on time. We provide a 7-day turnaround for most urgent Bills of Costs through our Data-Ready Checklist and Intake Service Level Agreement (SLA), and 14 day turnaround for non-urgents matters up to £75,000 in value. Our SLA clearly set out the documentation and data required for rapid drafting, and when those prerequisites are met, our fulfilment rate consistently exceeds 95%, giving clients confidence that deadlines will be achieved without compromising on accuracy or quality. For instructions over £75,000 in value, turnaround time can still be within 14 days dependent upon other work commitments, but sometimes we offer bespoke timescales for substantial costs matters which we will discuss on a case by case basis.
How do digital-first costs firms improve turnaround on Bills of Costs?
Digital-first firms like ARC Costs improve turnaround by integrating automation, secure file sharing, and structured workflows into every step of the process. Our Data-Ready Checklist ensures we receive all necessary documentation upfront, while our intake SLA guarantees files are reviewed, allocated, and scheduled immediately. As a result, we routinely deliver Bills of Costs within seven days on urgent matters when checklist requirements are met. Our digital systems also enable real-time progress tracking, giving clients visibility of every stage from instruction to delivery.
Where do we offer our Services?
ARC Costs provide their services nationwide, assisting clients across England and Wales. Thanks to our use of modern technology and remote working systems, we can efficiently manage costs matters for clients regardless of location, offering the same high-quality service whether you are based locally or elsewhere in the country. We regularly assist clients nationwide, including in London, Birmingham and Manchester
What is your Service Level Agreement/ turnaround time?
Being a digital based firm means we’re able to reduce the typical SLA time. However, turnaround times vary and will depend on the type, complexity, volume of instructions and urgency of your matter. Our typical turnaround time on a bill of costs is around 2 weeks. For urgent matters, our average turnaround time is 7 days, though we do manage to complete urgent tasks within 24 hours if viable to meet a Court deadline however, a bespoke fee would need to be discussed if this type of service is required given that it would require out of office hours of working.
How much are Costs Lawyer or Costs Draftsman fees?
At ARC Costs, we generally prefer to charge our fees on an hourly rate (capped on recovery dependant on if we are instructed to negotiate also) or fixed fee basis. Proportionate charges will be discussed with you before we take on your case. Costs Lawyer and Costs Draftsman fees will also depend on the type and complexity of the case, as well as the urgency of the matter, timescales and level of the fee earner.
For the avoidance of doubt, we never charge for preliminary advice on a matter, and the ARC Costs team are always happy to point you in the right direction if we feel we cannot assist, or if it would be disproportionate to charge for our input on a matter than may be easily resolvable without our assistance.
Are Costs Draftsmen and Costs Lawyers Regulated?
Costs Draftsmen are not directly regulated by a governing body. This means that anyone can technically call themselves a costs draftsman, regardless of qualifications or experience.
However, at ARC Costs, we take regulation and professional standards seriously. Our management team includes qualified and regulated Costs Lawyers, who are authorised and regulated by the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB). This ensures that our clients receive expert, compliant, and professional advice on all aspects of legal costs — with the reassurance that our work adheres to the highest regulatory and ethical standards.
All instructions are conducted by our Costs Lawyers to ensure you recieve input from a regulated individual, though we will involve the input of experienced Costs Draftsman where appropriate.
Our Blog
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Litigation Misconduct: Bill of Costs Reduced by 75% for CPR 44.11 Breaches
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Costs Budgets and Indemnity Costs: Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SA
Costs Budgets and Indemnity Costs: Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SASummary: The interaction between costs budgets and indemnity costs can be unclear in practice. Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SA [2025] Costs LR 1593 clarifies...
The Recoverability of Inter-Fee Earner Discussions
The Recoverability of Inter-Fee Earner Discussions Mazur & Anor v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) (16 September 2025)Summary: The decision in Mazur has had a wide-ranging impact on the legal landscape, and made it critical that a regulated...
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