Law Office Staffing
While you may not start your practice with staff in mind, you may soon find yourself needing help and thus considering your options for staffing your law firm. There are a variety of ways in which you can staff your firm. If you have a physical space, you may want someone in-person, while a virtual office might employ virtual staff or services.
Importantly, when contemplating adding staff, you will need to ask and answer a number of questions including:
- Do you have funds to support and retain staff?
- How will you pay staff? Do you need a payroll service?
- Should staff be classified as an independent contractors or employees?
- Do you have policies and procedures that set out expectations and guidelines to adhere to?
- How will you go about searching and hiring?
- Do you know how to fire an employee?
- What else do you need to support staff (i.e. worker’s comp, disability, etc.)?
HR RESOURCES
Best Practice Policies, Samples, Templates (by Catherine E. Reuben, Hirsch Roberts Weinstein)
Respectful Workplace Policy Model (by The Law Society of Manitoba)
STAFFING SERVICES (NON-EXCLUSIVE LISTING)
Back Office Betties
Answer 1
DaVinci
Legal Typist
SpeakWrite
Alert Communications
Daybreak Office Solutions
LexHelper
Office Sense
MoneyPenny
Gabbyville
Call Experts
Smith.ai
Paralegal
Strategic Paralegal Services
Virtual Paralegal Services
Bookkeeping
Smartbooks
Kahuna Accounting
4700 Group
Supporting Strategies
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LegalEase Solutions
Hire an Esquire
Legably
Interpreters
LanguageLine
Optimal Phone Interpreters
Other
FancyHands
UpWork
TaskRabbit
Guru
Fiverr
Belay
Zirtual
Team Double-Click