Just a quick reminder about our next Billing ‘Masterclass’ sessions – 10% discount for CLSA & LAPG members – Further discounts for multi-bookings – JRS Retainer clients qualify for half price tickets –
Both are of benefit for first time billers, those with remaining doubts about the new schemes or just as a bit of a revision session. If our phone casework is correct, there are both costs out there not being claimed and some potentially costly errors which need to be avoided. Just a couple of extra standard fees will justify the course fee.
As ever the Civil session is in the morning and CDS in the afternoon. We shall be at:
Manchester on Tuesday, 18th November
Leeds/Bradford on Thursday, 20th November
Newcastle on Tuesday 24th November
These courses are also available In-House for those firms with 6 or more potential delegates. You might also consider hosting the event and inviting local firms to share the costs – call Sandra on 01642 225553 or send an email to us at jrs@we-are-jrs.co.uk to discuss these options.
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Simon is touring the nation with TMT in September:
Manchester – 3 September
Newcastle – 8 September
Birmingham – 10 September
Cardiff – 16 September
Leeds – 18 September
London – 23 September
You can call TMT Training on: 01323-739988 – tell them I sent you . . . .
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Further to this I had a sudden intuitive leap forward early this morning and think I can actually make Litigators Fee understandable. This is likely to form a significant element of the course.
Next Monday and Tuesday still taking bookings. Brum and N’castle still miles away.

You can download en Excel based Litigators Fee Calculator here. It works.
It does not however assist in understanding the actual mechanics of the scheme (in fact despite getting the right total claim it can actually lead to confusion). Having just finished the preparation of this element of my next training venture I do think we can make good on the claim in the title to this post. Will also be doing things like the new PACE Standard Fees, paying agents, what’s happening with Crime Peer Review and changes in the new contract.
Dates are
19th November – Manchester
20th November – Leeds
30th November – Birmingham
4th December – Newcastle
Here is a booking form.

No time to post right now off to Wales.
See you later.
PS Cars engine warning light came on last night on the way home from the Richard Hawley gig so I might have to revise the last bit.

Regulars here will know of a strange but regular phenomenon which occurs the moment I jump on the Tour Bus.
It involves a sudden influx of new, and generally deadlined, work which has to be crammed into the spaces between training events. (It is compounded today by me having another three hour in-house course shoehorned in between the main tour events). I am beginning to share the experience of veteran sports stars who no longer train between fixtures and use the time to recuperate.
The new demands includes a final twist in the CCA tale, some more on Peer Review and a couple of billing queries and appeals. Onwards and upwards.

Well off we go then. Still nothing on the Litigators Fee mind you so that section is going to be a little bit thin!
If your coming to Bradford see you there otherwise I will do a more substantive post tomorrow.

Checking the oil and water in the tour bus for the these dates which start in Bradford tomorrow.
Writing the course it has surprised me the amount of subtle change in the Unified Contract – over and above the major areas of concern and dissension. There are certainly a number of potential trip wires for the unwary which, given the move away from franchise style auditing and lack of clear communication from the LSC, may well become a future area of friction. I had thought this section of the course would be much shorter than it has ended up – there is however plenty to discuss.
I must also say, as ever out of fairness, there are fewer unclear sections in the LSC’s documentation than usual with only a couple of queries outstanding.
It may be of interest to readers that I am also going to shout at some barristers this month too. So not just you lot then.

On the subject of shouting* here is another gig I have lined up in Birmingham. It concerns the very interesting issue of the “out sourcing” of legal work which may well become an important opportunity for legal aid practices in the years ahead. Come along or give me a ring if you can’t make it but want a bit of background.
*For non regulars “shouting” is the JRS technical term for Law Society CPD Accredited Training.
PS We are doing this in conjunction with our friends at Freedom Technical and the Birmingham Law Society.

I am preparing for the September training tour concerning the move into unified contract and graduated and standard fees. Just came across this gem:

“We will ensure that there is training and guidance for regional office staff to ensure consistency of approach”.

As my youngest kid would say ROFLMAO.