Practico

Practico is a leading provider of legal costs consultancy services, with a strong reputation for handling high-value, complex litigation. We are trusted by top-tier law firms, in-house legal teams, and class representatives to deliver strategic, accurate, and commercially focused costs advice.

Practico offers a full suite of costs services, including costs budgeting, bill drafting, points of dispute and reply, and advocacy at CCMCs and detailed assessments. Our team includes experienced costs lawyers who are regularly instructed to support advocacy in the Senior Courts Costs Office.

We are frequently instructed in high-stakes disputes across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, technology, construction, and media.

Our team is regularly involved in costs litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court,

We are known for our ability to navigate the complexities of high-profile litigation with professionalism and insight. Our clients value our clarity, precision, and ability to add value at every stage of the litigation process. They rely on us to provide clear, strategic advice that supports their litigation objectives and enhances their recovery.

Our experience in group and other collective actions includes privacy/data breach, product liability, competition cases, environmental damage, industrial disease, personal injuries and disaster litigation.

We advise on costs management within group litigation and prepare bespoke budgets often involving layers of common and individual costs which may involve several law firms on each side.

Following the judgment of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in Bulk Mail Claim Limited v International Distribution Services Plc, we have been retained by the class representative in that case to provide an independent view of the costs incurred and to be incurred, based on our expertise in the costs of group actions and commercial costs claims.

Practico is frequently instructed in heavyweight commercial litigation. We work closely with leading City and international firms, advising on costs strategy from the outset of proceedings through to resolution.

Our work includes preparing and opposing costs budgets, advising on security for costs, and managing the costs implications of interim applications and settlement.

In the last year we have been retained by multiple defendants in the Pan-NOx diesel emissions litigation (costs budgeting), in the Grenfell Tower Fire litigation (adverse costs ADR) and for the receiving party following the landmark judgment in The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd.

Practico is trusted to handle the costs aspects of these matters with discretion and care, ensuring that our clients secure the best possible financial outcomes.

Practico's instruction on behalf of News Group Newspapers since 2011 in respect of the civil claims against the former News of the World and the Sun newspapers for phone-hacking represents the longest-running example of the firm's media portfolio work. During the course of the litigation, Practico have been instructed by successive firms on behalf of NGN including most recently Clifford Chance (2016 to present).

Our clients include many of the UK's top 100 law firms, as well as boutique litigation practices and in-house legal teams. We are also instructed by overseas firms involved in English proceedings, and we have experience working with clients in other costs shifting jurisdictions.

Practico is proud to be a trusted partner in some of the most significant and complex litigation in the UK.