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Should You Consider Hiring a Virtual Legal Assistant?

A law firm is a busy place and features a wide variety of tasks that must be completed each day to ensure you are providing the best services for your clients. Hiring a legal virtual assistant can help you accomplish both with ease. By using a virtual assistant for attorneys, you free up a significant amount of your time, allowing you to focus on critical legal proceedings while your virtual assistant handles clerical work and other day-to-day operations.

Virtual Legal Assistant Services

A law firm virtual assistant can help your firm to become more efficient, scale more rapidly, and provide your clients with a better overall experience. Virtual assistant services include completing routine administrative tasks and improving customer service by managing client-facing interactions as well as and coordinating important meetings and deadlines. This could also include scheduling appointments, conducting legal research, writing contracts, and even accounting.

In short, a legal virtual assistant is essentially an extension of yourself and your in-house staff when it comes to handling whatever tasks you choose. As a result, what and how much a virtual paralegal does depend on your specific needs. Some of the legal services that most often use virtual assistants include immigration attorneys, family lawyers, workers’ compensation lawyers, and personal injury lawyers. While these are most common, they are certainly not the only types of firms that can benefit from employing a virtual paralegal.

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March 15, 2023/by alexa@virtuallatinos.com

It’s no secret that many attorneys aren’t happy in the traditional law firm model. Long hours with stressful and inflexible schedules make attorney burnout common. A 2021 mental health survey by American Lawyer Media found that 71% of lawyers experience anxiety and the Great Resignation put a stronger spotlight on this long standing industry trend. Additionally, many attorneys have been caught up in the recent whirlwind of tech company layoffs, finding themselves looking for ways to bridge a gap between roles and create new income streams.

Attorneys can look to a legal marketplace as a solution to grow their burgeoning practices. Legal marketplaces connect companies with outside legal services, which include solo practitioners and small or boutique law firms (in addition to larger law firms and alternative legal services providers).

So what does creating a new practice utilizing a legal marketplace look like? Attorneys from many different backgrounds with all types of skill sets find success on Priori Marketplace. Here are a few examples of ways attorneys have recently used Marketplace to bridge career gaps, secure new positions, work more flexibly and more.

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March 15, 2023/by ashley.graham@priorilegal.com

ContractManager, robots are not ALWAYS something to be afraid of. Especially when they help with Contract Management Software processes!

Discover how Contract AI can help your organization maximize Contract data, mitigate Contract Risk, and increase Contract Management visibility.

March 14, 2023/by abowman@cobblestonesoftware.com

When an in-house legal department needs to find a lawyer, they have a lot of options. Often the route they end up going will be dictated by their need. As a legal marketplace, we help legal departments at companies from the Fortune 50 to fast growing tech companies and everything in between achieve their goals. If you’ve heard of Priori but are wondering how we might be able to help your company get legal work done, here are the six most common ways legal teams across the globe use our services.

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March 14, 2023/by ashley.graham@priorilegal.com

Electronic case filing is essential to the modern law firm. It allows lawyers to streamline their processes, quickly access records, and respond timely to their clients’ needs. However, safeguarding digital documents from unauthorized access is critical to ensuring client confidentiality.

This post will explain the privacy policies that law firms should consider when submitting electronic case files, such as petitions, motions, and pleadings, to the court. It also highlights how attorneys can protect confidential information while optimizing legal processes.

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March 13, 2023/by greg_sallis@foxitsoftware.com

Care Initiatives is the largest non-profit skilled nursing and long-term care provider in Iowa, with 43 nursing homes and eight hospice offices located throughout the state. When the organization first established an in-house legal team in late 2020, the new in-house lawyer saw an opportunity to move from disjointed contracting operations and manual processes (often involving physical contracts, which posed significant challenges amidst changing public health mandates) to a more centralized approach with consistent approval processes across locations and vendors.

Read how they digitized 33 years’ worth of contracts in just 10 days.

March 13, 2023/by kimberly.dimicco@evisort.com

You may have heard that the legal industry (or at least some major sectors of it) are recession-proof, however that doesn’t mean that legal jobs are protected from the same macroeconomic factors that are causing layoffs in tech and other industries. While the outlook for attorneys may be better than the average, layoffs can happen to anyone at any time. And even though the tech sector has received the most press in 2023, law firms have not been immune to the recent layoffs trend. And some are predicting that this unfortunate trend will only continue throughout this year.

Being laid off is incredibly disruptive and frustrating. No matter what position you’re in, there are things you can do to make the situation easier to manage and come out the other end in an even better position.

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March 13, 2023/by ashley.graham@priorilegal.com

Legal operations professionals have a lot on their minds this year. From the overall economic uncertainty to new data privacy regulations to the effect of artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT on business, there is a lot for in-house legal teams to manage, and that is just scratching the surface.

To learn more about the trending topics in legal operations for 2023, we asked professionals across the spectrum to share their Legal Ops New Year’s Resolutions with us. The responses covered a wide variety of topics, but there were some common themes: reducing legal spend, utilizing technology to improve efficiency and workflows and creating better processes around legal functions are important goals for many in the industry.

If you’re interested in what legal operations professionals are looking to accomplish in 2023, here are some highlights from the conversation.

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March 10, 2023/by ashley.graham@priorilegal.com

In Contract Management – it’s ALWAYS draft day.

Discover better Contract Drafting and creation with Contract Drafting Software tools within Contract Management Software.

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March 10, 2023/by abowman@cobblestonesoftware.com

In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive landscape, successful business strategies are those that are efficient by nature. Automated document redaction software is just one tool organizations can use to make the cut, and offer numerous benefits over the conventional way of doing things. This article will explain the importance of redaction in detail, the challenges usually associated with the process, and how digital tools can solve them.

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March 10, 2023/by greg_sallis@foxitsoftware.com