At Rose Legal, we’re committed to supporting the legal profession through practical, CPD-accredited education. Through our seminars, we provide practitioners with access to real-world case experience and expert-led insights in the niche and technical field of legal costs.
About the Seminar Series
Our CPD seminars are designed to help solicitors navigate legal costs disputes. These sessions are led by experienced professionals from the Rose Legal team & other guests to provide tailored guidance for practitioners seeking to strengthen their practice.
Why Costs Knowledge Matters
Practitioners at all levels are often tasked with preparing invoices, drafting correspondence, or managing the day-to-day billing elements of a matter. With rising scrutiny in legal costs, equipping lawyers with costs knowledge is a strategic investment. Understanding costs principles helps reduce the likelihood of disputes, improves file management, and ensures stronger outcomes for both practitioners and clients.
Suggested CPD Topics We Cover
- Introduction to Legal Costs: Principles, Orders and Recovery.
- Managing Fee and Client Complaints – Practical Strategies for Practice
- Solicitor-Client Costs vs Party-Party Costs: What Practitioners should know.
- Costs Disclosure and Ensuring Compliance under the Legal Profession Uniform Law.
- Recent changes to the Victorian Scale of Costs (effective 1 January 2025) – a topical area as many Victorian practitioners are still adjusting to the new time-based costing regime.
- Gross sum and lump sum costs applications.
- Security for costs, when and how to apply.
About Rose Legal
Rose Legal is a specialist costs law firm with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, trusted by leading law firms and counsel across Australia for expert advice in legal costs disputes. With a team of costs specialist lawyers, we service clients across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, combining deep technical expertise with commercial insight to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Our Melbourne office, located at Level 11, 456 Lonsdale Street, strengthens our capacity to support clients nationally with dedicated, local expertise. We work with civil and commercial litigation lawyers across Victoria requiring specialist costs services, from preparing Bills of Costs and Certificates of Assessment to expert costs witness. We appear regularly in the Costs Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria and are instructed by top-tier firms and barristers in complex litigation, including Federal Court class actions.
Our Offering
- Tailored in-house CPD seminars for law firms (we can come to you).
- Complimentary phone advice on costs questions, costs agreements, and file management.
- Deferred fee arrangements available for firms and clients who need flexibility.
- Victorian Costs Court bills prepared pursuant to scale; contact us about our preferred practitioner rates.
- Team capacity of up to 10 people for urgent or large matters.
Register Your Interest
We invite practitioners and practice groups to register their interest in our upcoming CPD-accredited seminars via our website or by contacting us directly. Seminars are held throughout the year, both virtually and in-person, and are eligible for CPD points. If you’d like to discuss a personalised and complimentary CPD session for your firm or learn more about our costs services, we’d welcome the opportunity to meet with you.
Reach out directly to Martina Ludvigova or Joe Rose or explore our website to get started.
