The Billable Hour Problem
Every hour your attorneys spend on document formatting, calendar management, or chasing down filings is an hour they are not billing. For a firm where partners bill at $300 to $600/hour and associates at $150 to $300/hour, the opportunity cost of administrative tasks is staggering.
Virtual paralegals let you keep your attorneys doing attorney work while someone else handles the rest.
What Virtual Paralegals Do
- Legal research: Case law research, statutory analysis, and memo drafting
- Document preparation: Contracts, pleadings, motions, discovery documents
- Case management: Deadline tracking, filing schedules, court date coordination
- Client intake: Initial consultations, conflict checks, retainer processing
- Billing support: Time entry, invoice preparation, payment follow-up
- E-discovery: Document review, coding, and organization
Confidentiality and Security
Attorney-client privilege is non-negotiable. Our legal VAs sign comprehensive NDAs, work through encrypted VPN connections, and follow strict data handling protocols. All communications are logged. Access to client files is role-based and revocable.
Practice Areas We Support
Personal injury, family law, immigration, real estate transactions, corporate law, estate planning, and criminal defense. Each VA is matched to your practice area based on their training and experience.
The Business Case
An in-house paralegal in NYC costs $55,000 to $75,000 plus benefits ($75,000 to $100,000 total). A virtual paralegal through Remote Staff NY costs $18,700/year. If your firm handles 100+ active cases, the savings fund an additional associate or go straight to profit.
Solo practitioners and small firms benefit the most. You get paralegal support without the overhead of a full-time hire, and you can scale hours up during busy periods and down during slow ones.