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Drafting, evidence and research, prepared for review.

Also called: Paralegal Virtual Assistant, Paralegal Assistant, Virtual Paralegal

From AUD $4.50 an hourAUD $4.50-22.50/hr

  • Legal
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Paralegal gets doneSample day
  • Prepares first drafts of correspondence, affidavitsDrafting
  • Collects, indexes and organises client documents and evidenceEvidence and documents
  • Researches stated factual and legal questionsResearch
  • Prepares and lodges court and agency filings once a lawyer approves themProcedure and filingDoing

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $9an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level adminAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate ParalegalAUD $9/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before super and leave.

Manages the procedural workflow on a caseload of routine matters.

  • Filing-ready application packages
  • First drafts of discovery responses and routine pleadings
  • Research memos

2-5 years as a paralegal in the relevant practice area.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Paralegal

Tasks

  • Drafting

    • Prepares first drafts of correspondence, affidavits
    • Completes statutory and agency forms from client instructions
    • Updates precedents and checklists when rules or forms change

  • Evidence and documents

    • Collects, indexes and organises client documents and evidence
    • Builds chronologies and document lists from the file
    • Prepares disclosure or discovery productions

  • Research

    • Researches stated factual and legal questions

  • Procedure and filing

    • Prepares and lodges court and agency filings once a lawyer approves them
    • Dockets procedural deadlines

  • Client and third-party liaison

    • Gathers client information through questionnaires
    • Deals with courts, registries, agencies

  • Specialisation workflows

    • Requests medical records, compiles special damages
    • Builds document checklists
    • Prepares ASIC, Companies House or Secretary of State filings
    • Runs trade mark clearance searches
    • List assets and liabilities

Tested before you meet them

  1. Legal reading and summary testAll levels45 min
  2. Specialisation form-preparation work sampleAll levels60 min
  3. Drafting from precedentIntermediate and up60 min
  4. Research tool testAll levels30 min
  5. Scope and ethics scenarioAll levels20 min
  6. Half-day trialExpert and Specialist4 hrs

One score on every profileSample shown

85%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Paralegal is AUD $4.50 an hour, Intermediate AUD $9, Expert AUD $14 and Specialist AUD $22.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Drafting, evidence and documents, research and procedure and filing, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including legal reading and summary test, specialisation form-preparation work sample and drafting from precedent. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Paralegal works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Paralegal works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Paralegal manages the procedural workflow on a caseload of routine matters. An Expert Paralegal owns outcomes on complex matters. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Paralegal is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Clio Manage and Actionstep, before you meet them.

In week one: sets up e-filing and agency portal access under firm-controlled accounts; hands over the precedent library, checklists, style guide and practice-area SOPs; and reviews active matters with the supervising lawyer. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Paralegal Virtual Assistant, Paralegal Assistant and Virtual Paralegal. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

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