Recorded Webinar: Costs Agreements, Cash Flows and Client Expectations (Professional Skills)

This session looks at drafting costs agreements in a cost-effective manner to ensure that you disclose everything that you are required to, that you manage the client’s expectations and that ultimately, you get paid. This session looks at the traditional costs agreement as well as conditional costs agreements and includes:

• What should be in your costs agreement? Understanding the legislative requirements
• Preparing a fee estimate – how do you effectively scope your work?
• What happens when the scope changes? Updating the client
• Conditional costs agreements – what needs to go in them? What are you allowed to charge for your uplift fee?
• Professional conduct issues involving costs agreements