Practice Services

Precision in Legal Costs.

Structured legal-costs services for attorneys, senior counsel, corporate clients, litigants and non-litigious mandates requiring tariff-aware, defensible costs work.

Four Pillars

Built around the new generation Legal Costs Online pillars.

The platform is designed around the actual work done in legal costs: importing records, drafting narrations, applying tariff periods, analysing objections, assessing non-litigious fees, preparing settlement positions and producing formal legal-costs documents.

LCO Draft

Structured drafting infrastructure for bills of costs in all courts and forums throughout South Africa, covering litigious and non-litigious legal-costs work while preserving institutional knowledge.

  • Bill drafting for all courts
  • Tariff-period, VAT, summary, certificate and allocatur support
  • Document import, narration structure and repeatable drafting standards

LCO Tax

Taxation strategy, objections, allocatur modelling and settlement positioning, with the right of appearance in courts and forums and practical insight into Taxing Master practice.

  • Lists of objections, item-by-item reviews and recoverability analysis
  • Taxation preparation, appearance support and settlement comparisons
  • Disbursement, counsel fee, court-order and tariff application analysis

LCO Intel

Legal-costs intelligence drawn from tariff knowledge, Taxing Master practice, historical outcomes, recoverability patterns and specialist judgment.

  • Case-law, tariff and court-practice intelligence for drafting and objections
  • Legal-costs wording, review and decision support for attorneys and clients
  • Litigious and non-litigious legal-costs strategy for complex matters

LCO Quantum

The crown jewel: legal-costs intelligence for attorneys, counsel, corporates and insurers, built from real taxation, settlement, objection and recovery patterns.

  • Settlement range estimation and predictive taxation insight
  • Benchmarking of counsel fees, divisions, forums and matter types
  • Recovery probability, risk scoring and high-risk item identification
Formal Standard

Prepared for scrutiny.

Every bill, objection, fee assessment and settlement recommendation must be capable of being understood by attorneys, counsel, the Taxing Master, a Legal Costs Arbitrator, a client, a fee committee or the Court.