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If you operate a successful law firm, you’re fully aware that the day-to-day operations of a law firm require much more than court appearances and important meetings. As a lawyer, you face an enormous amount of clerical work and other time-consuming tasks that can take you away from crucial meetings and bog down your schedule if you can’t delegate correctly. Fortunately, hiring a virtual assistant (VA) for your law firm can relieve much of the burden by outsourcing many essential law firm tasks.
A VA can provide much more than the surface value of completing the tasks assigned. A VA’s influence can improve multiple internal aspects of your firm, which can help you improve your efficiency and grow your company. We’ve compiled the most important unseen benefits a VA can have for a law firm here.
Benefit #1: Time and Money Savings
One of the primary reasons lawyers give for hiring VAs is the time saved by delegating non-core tasks to a virtual legal assistant. Client Jeff Craig (DC Law) says, “Regarding the reason why I hired the VAs in the first place, which was for intake calls and retaining clients, I have seen how my numbers have increased with the help of the VAs I hired through Virtual Latinos.”
Besides, compared to the cost of hiring a legal assistant locally, the relative price of an affordable virtual assistant is remarkably lower. For smaller firms and solo lawyers, the ability to pay a VA for a variety of smaller tasks is much more cost-effective than hiring in-office personnel to perform smaller jobs throughout the day. In addition, lower cost can be attributed to the reduction in overhead that results when you limit in-house personnel, including:
- Reduced use of infrastructure
- Reduced use of resources
- No responsibility to offer employee benefits
Benefit #2: Enhanced Services for Your Firm
When you hire a virtual legal assistant, you’ll reap the benefits of an experienced VA, readily equipped with the software necessary to work with you. In most cases, there’s no need for extensive software training, setup, or other clerical duties upon hiring. Instead, a quality VA will invest in the resources necessary to perform the job efficiently.
Client Kalani Hawks (Hawks Villafranca Law) says, “My VA is phenomenal; she’s so self-motivated and able to provide the support I need, so I can focus on my business without being bugged out in administrative details that will prevent me from growing my business. She’s also part of [my business] as she’s constantly providing ideas and feedback for me to improve my growth as well.”
Benefit #3: Excellent Customer Service Quality
Virtual assistants can provide several top-quality customer service benefits to help keep your clients feeling satisfied with your law firm’s dedication to their cases. Your VA can remain diligent in completing many day-to-day client-facing tasks while you focus on the cases at hand or engage in firm growth. Customer service-based duties your VA can handle include:
- Information gathering
- Client form completion
- Regular client follow-ups regarding their case
- Client notification
Additionally, bilingual VAs can interact with Spanish-speaking clients, facilitating communications between client and attorney, and completing the translation of all case-related information. Client Beckie Moriello (Raleigh Immigration Law Firm) says, “Hiring a VA from Virtual Latinos has helped me achieve goals in the sense of getting staff that is more economical for me, capable, professional, and bilingual. I was able to find a good immigration paralegal and bilingual assistant who follow directions and do as I ask them to do.”
If looking for a VA specialized in jobs that require in-depth legal knowledge and experience, a paralegal virtual assistant is the perfect profile.
Benefit #4: Improved Work/Life Balance
The final benefit of hiring a virtual assistant for your law firm is perhaps the most intrinsic to your firm’s success—reducing the impact the work of growing your firm can have on your personal and family life. Since many solo practitioners and small firm owners must dedicate a great deal of time to both clerical work and growth-based activities, hiring a VA can help you strike the ideal balance. Best of all, a VA can help you ensure all client work and work to grow your firm is on track while you attend to important personal business.
Choose Virtual Latinos to Meet Your VA Needs
When you’re searching for virtual assistant companies with dedicated virtual assistants, look no further than Virtual Latinos. Our focus on Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Venezuela) means each virtual assistant is within two time zones of your law firm. This enhances their availability to handle all the duties that a legal assistant or customer service provider must provide. Additionally, each VA is fully bilingual in Spanish and English to ensure proper care of your Spanish-speaking clients. Reach out today to begin hiring your virtual assistant, and grow your law firm with the help of Virtual Latinos.
