As a personal injury attorney, you understand how important it is to provide your clients with the best legal representation possible. Unfortunately, many law firms need more resources to manage their caseloads successfully and maintain high client service. Fortunately, virtual paralegals can help keep your firm stay organized and efficient to serve your clients better and win more cases. Here are four ways a virtual paralegal can improve the productivity of your estate planning firm:
Providing Office Support
As a personal injury attorney, you understand the importance of providing quality legal services efficiently and professionally. However, managing office operations can be difficult and time-consuming, especially when it comes to scheduling calls and handling client intake. Your virtual paralegals can also help you best leverage your case management system by creating automations to handle work flows and designing templates that can be used in the client screening process. Virtual paralegals offer an innovative solution to those challenges by providing cost savings and greater flexibility in office support services.
Case Management
Running a personal injury practice often requires managing dozens of matters and ensuring that filings are timely, hearings aren’t missed, and discovery is timely obtained. Virtual paralegals offer specialized expertise that can help your firm maximize operational efficiency while handling personal injury cases.
Experienced in case management and organization, a virtual paralegal can alleviate the burden on your team by handling many of the pre-litigation tasks associated with a matter. A virtual paralegal can help obtain and review medical, employment, and police records, calendar key deadlines and review and summarize discovery.
They can also assist you with collecting and producing client documents, reviewing, and summarizing insurance disclosure requests, monitoring negotiations and offers, assisting in bill and lien reductions, and coordinating with insurance companies.
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Document Preparation and Drafting
Experienced paralegals can assist you with drafting many of the key documents associated with personal injury matters. For example, virtual paralegals are often experienced in preparing documents needed in the pre-litigation or early litigation phase of a matter, including demand letters, HIPAA releases, medical chronologies, and medical expense itemizations. If the case moves past the pre-litigation stage, the virtual paralegal can help prepare, file, and serve the complaint. As the case progresses, paralegals can prepare initial drafts of written discovery requests and responses, as well as pleadings, including motions to compel.
Whether you’re looking for ongoing support or occasional help, virtual personal injury paralegals can save you time by creating initial drafts of key documents.
Client Communications
Your clients are the most critical aspect of your practice. Without their trust and satisfaction, your reputation will quickly diminish. However, managing client communications can take time away from other vital elements of running your practice. This is where virtual personal injury paralegals come in to save the day.
One of the key benefits of working with virtual paralegals is their ability to provide personalized attention to each client. You can ensure that all client inquiries and concerns are handled promptly and professionally by outsourcing client communications to a virtual paralegal. This saves you time and helps you maintain positive client relationships throughout the legal process. For example, virtual paralegals are well suited to check in on clients regarding scheduled medical appointments.
Virtual paralegals can provide a great deal of value to any personal injury practice. Taking on some of the mundane tasks and allowing you to focus more time on your active cases can increase efficiency and streamline the entire process. Furthermore, they are more cost-effective and flexible than hiring a full-time employee, making them a great asset in your practice.
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Michelle, Equivity’s Assistant Marketing Director, brings over 20 years of marketing experience and holds a degree in International Business. For more insights and updates, connect with Michelle on LinkedIn.