The course will equip delegates with a better understanding of legal costs in order to run a more efficient practice to serve in the best interests of their clients. You will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to prepare proper cost accounts that will ensure that your clients and your business do not suffer financial losses.  You will also learn how to negotiate and obtain beneficial costs orders. This course provides a better understanding between civil litigious and non-litigious matters and the consequence thereof. The concept of legal costs and a general understanding will form the basis followed by practical training.

There will be a section covered on thorough analysis of Section 35 of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 and the implications of the innovations in regard to attorneys / client relationships in respect of legal costs.

The programme will include:

Session 1: (Day 1)

• Introduction to legal costs
• Contingency fee agreements
• Accounting to clients
• Office administration and costs
• Ethics in relation to costs
• Non-litigious matters
• Civil litigious matters
• Different cost orders
• Prescribed tariffs

Session 2: (Day 2)

• Drawing bills of costs
• Settling a bill of costs
• Formal requirements for taxation
• Taxation
• Review of taxation
• Recovery of costs
• Value added tax

Presenter

Cornelius Meiring was admitted as a legal practitioner of the High court in February 1997. He was also admitted as a conveyancer in 2002 and has been in full time practice as an attorney and conveyancer for the past 26 years. Cornelius become involved with LEAD in 2006 and has been presenting various topics for the past 18 years. The subjects / topics he presents include Legal Practice Accounts Management, Wills, Estates, Trusts and Legal Costs among others. He is also a guest lecturer at the North West University , where he presents Accounting for Legal Practitioners. Cornelius is also part of the LPCs Disciplinary Committee and Fee Dispute Resolution Committee.

What previous attendees said

• The training was worth the time and the costs
• The facilitator made legal cost simpler.
• Thank you so much for this helpful course. The instructor was fantastic.
• Overall, it is a good course. I would recommend it to anyone intending to practice law.
• Thank you for your comprehensive course.
• A very in-depth presentation. Thoroughly enjoyed the presentation.
• Thank you for the effort conducted to a well successful training course!
• The presenter is clearly knowledgeable and excited about the topic, which is always a bonus.

25 and 26 February 2025 : 13:00 to +/-15:30

Note: Kindly note that this course might run over the scheduled time. Please do not arrange any other appointments for at least 30 minutes after the planned closing time.

Closing date for registrations: 24 February 2025.

Certification
All sessions are mandatory to qualify for a certificate.

Practising legal practitioners specialising in litigation, candidate legal practitioners and non-practising legal practitioners/legal support  staff.

Registration fee categories (including VAT):
•    Practising legal practitioners and other staff from legal firms: R 1 650 per person.
•    Non-practising legal practitioners/others: R 2 500 per person.

Kindly note that you can only register online. Participants should be registered individually to enable the system to generate a unique username and password for each person.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

Email: Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za or Tel No 012 441 4652

• The LSSA will not accept liability if the fees are not paid into the designated LSSA bank account.
• The course is conducted in English only.
• The course will be delivered through MS TEAMS. Please ensure that you have MS TEAMS installed on your computer prior to the commencement of the course.
• Due to the number of delegates on this training and the huge volume of questions asked, the answers to the questions will be emailed to all the week after conclusion of the course. This can then be used as an addendum to the course material
• According to Company Policy and copyright protection, no recordings or the PowerPoint presentation will be made available after the course. It is therefore also not included in the fee or the course
• You will receive the material as well as the link to the course via email, +-24 hours before commencement of the course.  If you do not receive the said email, look in your junk mail folder. If it is not there, contact Yolanda Singh on Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za. Please test your links at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the training sessions.
• No cancellations will be accepted after the course material and link have been shared. Participants who do not cancel timeously and/or fail to attend the course will forfeit the amount paid towards this course.
• Should you need to cancel your registration, you need to do so in writing before the course link and material are shared. No cancelation will be accepted after it has been made available and failure to comply with this will result in the full fee being charged.
• LSSA/LEAD shall have the right in its sole discretion to postpone or cancel tuition in any programme initially advertised and offered based on insufficient demand. Should LSSA/LEAD cancel the proposed training, registered delegates will be given reasonable notice of the cancellation and all fees paid by the delegate will be refunded.

LEAD is one of the largest providers of legal and professional education in South Africa and has been accredited as a legal education provider by the Legal Practice Council. LEAD provides access to quality learning that is relevant, accessible and affordable. LEAD offers an extensive range of learning activities and training options.