Signs Your Law Firm is Ready to Start Outsourcing

As your practice grows and you take on more cases, you may find yourself spending more time on administrative tasks and basic legal research. This takes away time available for client meetings and complex analysis.

Bringing on a skilled, freelance paralegal to handle more routine legal tasks may help your firm run more efficiently and provide better service. A reliable paralegal can make your practice more capable of taking on new growth while maintaining quality output.

Here are the tell-tale signs your firm is ready to outsource:

1. Missed deadlines

Whether it’s the inability to track important dates or a lack of time management to conduct intakes, client meetings, court dates, etc. In the legal field, your reputation is everything. Missing deadlines does not prove to be a positive reputation as a law firm. 

Paralegals are extremely skilled in time management, communication with relevant parties, and calendaring important dates to make attorney’s lives easier in managing their caseload and running the law firm.

2. Unable to take on more clients

While it’s pretty cool to be at max capacity as a solo or small firm, you don’t want to let money walk right out the door. Attorneys DO NOT have to do everything in the law firm regarding client case management.

Paralegals are professionally trained to manage caseloads from start to finish. Delegating tasks to support staff increases an attorney’s availability to take on more clients.

3. Work Overload

It’s easy as an attorney to get overrun by casework. Continuously working 40+ hours a week for months or years on end is not sustainable to your law firm and should not be the norm.

Paralegals can take on most if not all of the administrative and office management tasks that can cut an attorney’s workload down drastically. Bringing on an experienced paralegal gives attorneys more time to focus on complex case matters to win clients the best case outcomes.

4. Business expansion

Again, attorneys do not have to go at it alone in growing and scaling their business. More business = more help.

Paralegals wear many hats and can not only excel at client case management, but are also versatile in utilizing legal technology, building out business operations, and relying on data and documentation to determine business objectives.

5. Increase Profit Margin

The best way to increase profit margins is to streamline workflows and optimize business operations. Paralegals are gifted in finding what works and creating systems to implement innovative, consistent, and efficient ways to operationalize the law firm.

Attorneys can also bill paralegals out at a lower rate. This is more cost effective for clients and increases client satisfaction.

The Solution: Freelance Paralegals

Freelance paralegals provide increased benefits to law firms such as:

• Increased flexibility: freelance paralegals can work more than just the 9-5, they can also work in the evenings an weekends if needed by the firm

• Cost-effective: stress-free onboarding without the need for insurance, PTO, 401Ks, etc. as well as no onboarding costs as most freelance paralegals are virtual

• Specialized experience: no need for a training period – freelance paralegals can jump in and hit the ground running on case work due to their specialize experience and knowledge of specific areas of the legal field

***Have questions? Interested in services? Contact Lucid Legal Support and we’d be happy to discuss! We provide flexible, cost-friendly paralegal services which include:

• Criminal Defense

• Criminal Expungement

• Clemency

• Legal Operations/Project Management

You can reach us at info@lucidlegalsupport.com or (651) 300-7941.

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