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How to Become a Virtual Legal Assistant

The Estrin Report

What exactly is a Virtual Assistant or VA? Virtual assistants specialize in various industries such as marketing, real estate, accounting, law or financial services. Virtual assistants specialize in various industries such as marketing, real estate, accounting, law or financial services.

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Growing Your Law Practice Using Virtual Staff

Lawfecta

For some, this means an Internet-based legal practice with brick-and-mortar offices throughout the U.S. for others; it means virtual paralegals, legal secretaries, and assistants available on demand with no fixed locations. How to Use Virtual Legal Staff.

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What does legal tech mean for the legal profession?

SimplyLawJobs

In this article, our partners ILSPA (The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PA’s) will consider some of the latest IT innovations affecting the profession. Law firms and government departments have been using new technologies to provide legal services for years. Automated legal research. Providing legal advice.

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5 ways a virtual family law paralegal can take your practice to the next level

Lawfecta

The virtual paralegal is a rather new concept in the remote workforce. A close job parallel is the role of a virtual assistant which is defined by the Global Alliance of Virtual Assistants as: Virtual Assistants are highly-skilled entrepreneurs who perform a wide range of administrative, creative, technical, and other business services.

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The Benefits of Virtual Legal Assistants

MyCase

Virtual assistants” is simultaneously one of the most trending and confusable terms of the last ten years. Most virtual assistant providers don’t make this any easier for us to understand. Virtual receptionists and live chat agents. Virtual bookkeepers. Virtual intake specialists. Virtual paralegals.

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What is a Legal Assistant? Their Roles and Duties Explained

MyCase

To better understand what’s out there, let’s run down the general types of support roles found at a law office: Legal Secretary—Mostly Administrative Work A legal secretary is someone whose primary focus is handling non-legal, administrative tasks for a law firm so lawyers have more time to spend on billable hours.