In an intensely competitive legal services market, personal injury law firms are increasingly contemplating the advantages of delegating their paralegal workforce.
In such times, virtual paralegals perform the same work as traditional paralegals, but without the associated costs of salaries, benefits, and overhead.
Moreover, personal injury cases can take a long time and need a lot of effort.
One might understand how important it is for attorneys to maintain a regular client flow and workflow, meet deadlines, generate high-quality, well-researched, professional work products, and aggressively represent their clients.
With the help of our experienced virtual paralegal services, all of these areas can be enhanced and maintained.
In practice, the ways a paralegal can assist an attorney in delivering affordable, quality legal services are limited only by the imagination of the attorney.
Our expert personal injury paralegals at Bolster Legal Services can assist law firms and individual practitioners, wishing to increase the efficiency and cost-effective delivery of legal services with any matters connected to personal injury and torts.
Some of the services our virtual paralegals provide:
- Demand for Expert Witness Information
- Personal injury motions
- Property Damage motions
Our paralegal can perform the following additional tasks but are not limited to the same:
Legal Investigations
Our paralegals are often assigned the task of gathering, organizing, and summarizing relevant information.
Our experienced paralegals know where to find relevant information and how to evaluate it.
Docket Control
We have skilled paralegals who specialize in operating case management tools such as CasePeer and Filevine.
Our paralegals will work to ensure that all your calendars are up to date and you never miss a deadline.
Legal Research
Our paralegals can perform routine legal research for the lawyer.
Routine legal research includes locating the applicable cases, statutes, court rules and regulations on a specific legal issue.
Our paralegal can also analyze and summarize the impact of this research on the client’s case.
Legal Drafting
Our paralegals can prepare legal documents under the instructions of the attorney.
Our paralegals often prepare drafts of pleadings, contracts, deeds, or wills for review by the attorney, as well as routine legal correspondence and interoffice memorandum.
A few things to highlight
Our virtual paralegals are trained to discuss the extent of work with you and set cost expectations before beginning any work.
The billing fees vary depending on the nature of work and the extent of services provided.
For some projects, alternative fee and project-based fee options are also possible. To know which one suits best for your practice, talk to one of our paralegal experts.
Our paralegals are also known to:
Deliver work in a timely and effective manner
- Maintain constant communication on the progress of each project with the attorneys and team leaders.
- Monitor workflow with multiple team members and be up to date on projects, ensuring that if a paralegal is unavailable, another team member is ready to step in and ensure that work is delivered on time.
We believe in maximum confidentiality
Client information and documents are kept secure at all times.
All of our team members sign an NDA, guaranteeing that any information they acquire about the case will not be disclosed to anyone else.
Documents are stored in a secure location, distinct from our document storage files, and are either destroyed or returned when an assignment is completed.
A secure VPN and FTP site are used to share documents and prepare them as needed in major production problems.
Our paralegals help represent your clients zealously
As an attorney, you have an ethical obligation to aggressively represent your clients.
We can help ensure that your clients are zealously represented by:
(i) Keeping in daily communication;
(ii) Swiftly and efficiently creating managing emails & documents;
(iii) Assisting with case closure; and,
(iv) Working on case administrative chores.
Can a virtual paralegal perform the same as an offline paralegal?
We do understand your concern!
You might question the effectiveness of a virtual paralegal against a traditional, offline one. But, given the current worldwide situation, we have transformed how we provide our paralegal services to our clients.
We ensure that our experts communicate with the attorney by asking questions about the type of litigation support they require and being realistic about the steps necessary to complete the task or project.
Whether working online or offline, our paralegals deliver high-quality work that is completed correctly and on time.
When aiding an attorney in preparation for a meeting with a client, a deposition, mediation, or trial, our virtual paralegals always display the knowledge and skill to identify and recommend solutions that will better fit the attorney and provide him or her with the relevant work output.
There’s more!
At Bolster Legal Services, we believe we could do more than what is expected of us!
That is why our experienced personal injury paralegals are great at doing a bit more for your client’s satisfaction. They are good at conversing with clients, receiving documents, communicating what needs to be conveyed, and obtaining client information.
We are equipped to make phone calls, send emails, and follow up on the tasks that can take up so much of your time.
Bolster Legal also understand the value of a strong client relationship and strives for excellence in that area.
We will not only keep your client informed, but we will also provide you with regular updates as needed, all within the scope of project-based fee options.
End note
The scope of work that our personal injury paralegals can handle is nearly limitless.
Here we have attempted to compile a list of work projects that our team members have completed.
If you cannot see what you are looking for on this list, kindly contact one of our team members at Bolster Legal Services, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible with information on how we can help you or suggestions on where you may get the help you need.