Funding arrangements within litigation is facing one of the biggest overhauls in living memory, going far beyond the Jackson reforms of 2013.

Across all practice areas, retainers and fee estimates remain a challenge and something which often exposes practitioners to regulatory scrutiny, as well as challenges from both clients, as well as paying parties in litigation.

This webinar will summarise the key changes proposed by the Civil Justice Council’s review of litigation funding, with advice for practitioners in how to prepare for inevitable change, as well as providing best practice guidance around choosing and documenting retainers, in addition to avoiding mistakes when providing fee estimates.

Solicitors, all fee earners and managers

All Levels – this can be picked up throughout anyone's professional career regardless of experience

Understanding the critical changes that are proposed to the litigation funding landscape, how to prepare for the future, and best practice to adopt when choosing and documenting retainers, and setting fee estimates.

  1. The Civil Justice Council’s report on litigation Funding released on 2nd June 2025 proposes the biggest changes in funding in living memory.
  2. Choosing and documenting your retainer is vital and can result at worst, in no fees being paid by the client.
  3. Complying with the Solicitors Code of Conduct and providing best costs information to a client, includes estimates and the failure to provide an adequate estimate can mean being limited to that estimate, where there is a dispute.

This live webinar contains a 45-minute presentation from Richard Allen, a 15-minute Q&A session where you can ask any questions you'd like directly to Richard. You can download your own copy of the presentation and resources to refer to during and after the live webinar.

You will be able to actively listen to the course and ask questions to the speaker.

The live webinar begins at 1pm.

The £69 +VAT price includes:

  • 45-minutes of topical content
  • 15-minute interactive Q&A
  • Comprehensive lecture notes
  • Digital CPD certificate

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This live webinar provides you with 1 hour of learning.

Attendees will receive a CPD certificate upon completion of this course.

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  • Richard Allen

    About the speaker

    Richard Allen

    Richard has 40 years’ unique litigation, legal costs and practice management experience, being one of the first to achieve Costs Lawyer status and make partner in a solicitor’s practice.

    He was a founding and longest serving non-executive director of the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB) and is an accredited mediator and coach.

    Richard has vast experience handling significant litigation and costs caseloads for major law firms, establishing and managing several litigation and costs departments nationally, including a top 50 practice, and having a central role managing a full-service regional solicitors’ practice.

    Richard specialises in boosting profitability and performance, focusing on professional services pricing, together with costs, case and practice management, both in the UK and internationally. These skills led Richard to become an Accredited Training Provider for both the CLSB and the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) and succeeding Antony Smith, is the only authorised trainer in the UK and The Republic of Ireland to deliver the IILPM’s certified training courses in Legal Project Management and Legal process Improvement. This has naturally progressed in delivering Burcher Jennings unique and one-of-a-kind Legal Profitability Programme, bringing the perfect trinity of pricing, project management and process improvement to deliver groundbreaking profitability and efficiencies to law firms and in-house legal teams.

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