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They run your files, diaries, documents and court filings.

Also called: Legal Virtual Assistant, Legal Secretary, Law Firm Assistant

From £3.50 an hour£3.50-17/hr

  • Legal
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Legal Assistant gets doneSample day
  • Opens new matters in the practice management systemMatter and file administration
  • Manages lawyers' diaries, client meetings and court appearancesDiary, court dates and deadlines
  • Formats and proofreads letters, affidavits, pleadings and agreementsDocuments and correspondence
  • Prepares filing packages and lodges approved documentsCourt filing and serviceDoing
In your tools
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • DocuSign

Pick the level. See the price.

£7an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level admin£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Legal Assistant£7/hr
At least 56% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before on-costs and leave.

Runs the admin workflow for one or two lawyers from matter opening to invoicing.

  • Monthly pre-bills and issued invoices
  • Court filing packages
  • Daily and weekly deadline digests

2-4 years supporting lawyers in a law firm.

How the Intermediate level works

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

What you hand to your Legal Assistant

Tasks

  • Matter and file administration

    • Opens new matters in the practice management system
    • Files incoming emails, letters and documents to the right matter
    • Closes and archives completed matters

  • Diary, court dates and deadlines

    • Manages lawyers' diaries, client meetings and court appearances
    • Takes hearing dates, filing deadlines and limitation dates
    • Sends each supported lawyer a daily and weekly deadline digest

  • Documents and correspondence

    • Formats and proofreads letters, affidavits, pleadings and agreements
    • Transcribes dictation from BigHand or audio files into finished documents
    • Builds PDF bundles

  • Court filing and service

    • Prepares filing packages and lodges approved documents
    • Arranges service, tracks proof of service

  • Time, billing and collections

    • Enters and cleans up lawyers' time entries
    • Prepares pre-bills for lawyer review
    • Sends payment reminders and reports aged debtors each month

  • Client contact

    • Handles client calls and emails about status updates
    • Collects ID, signed documents and forms

Tested before you meet them

  1. Legal English and proofreading testAll levels30 min
  2. Formatting and PDF bundle testAll levels45 min
  3. Practice management tool testAll levels40 min
  4. Deadline extraction and calendaring exerciseAll levels30 min
  5. Client call role-playAll levels20 min
  6. Half-day trialExpert and Specialist4 hrs

One score on every profileSample shown

90%

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 Legal Assistant is £3.50 an hour, Intermediate £7, Expert £10.50 and Specialist £17, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Matter and file administration, diary, court dates and deadlines, documents and correspondence and court filing and service, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including legal English and proofreading test, formatting and PDF bundle test and practice management tool test. 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 Legal Assistant works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Legal Assistant 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 Legal Assistant runs the admin workflow for one or two lawyers from matter opening to invoicing. An Expert Legal Assistant owns admin outcomes for a practice group. 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 Legal Assistant is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Clio Manage and Actionstep, before you meet them.

In week one: hands over the firm style guide, precedent library, file naming convention; walk through calendaring rules; and agrees communication channels, response times and hours of overlap. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Legal Virtual Assistant, Legal Secretary and Law Firm Assistant. 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.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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