When Contractors Become Part of Your Law Firm’s Trusted Team

Unfortunately, for many legal professionals, there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything done while still making sure that they are there to help their law firms grow and thrive. Thankfully, these firms do not have to accomplish these objectives alone.

When you hire a legal back office team, you can get the support you require to do certain tasks that take time away from your day and prevent you from handling the more critical endeavors your firm needs to grow and succeed. 

However, to better help you understand how this process works and how these contractors can help your law firm, in the below guide, we will walk you through why back office outsourcing can be the game changer your firm needs. 

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What Is Legal Process Outsourcing?

Legal process outsourcing refers to law firms using contractors or other professionals to perform certain types of law firm tasks, such as law firm marketing, reception, legal intake, and billing and collections.

The Benefits of Legal Process Outsourcing

Legal process outsourcing has not only helped firms increase their capacity, but it has allowed attorneys and their legal staff to focus on their work, invest in their clients, and help increase the firm’s profitability. 

However, while these benefits are great, there is actually so much more to this legal process outsourcing than just improving the law firm’s performance. For instance, some of the other benefits of outsourcing back office legal work include the following:

Reduces the Firm’s Costs

As you continue to grow as a law firm, you will likely need to hire additional staff to take on this work. Unfortunately, new staff means more costs for your firm, including salaries, benefits, and even additional office space. Worse yet, you may not be ready to financially handle all of these extra financial hurdles.

Fortunately, there are other ways to help you handle this growth while reducing costs. By outsourcing your back office, such as your reception, legal intake, billing and collections, and IT consulting, you can get experienced, vetted, and trained professionals taking on this work for you and still save money in the process.

Improves Client Relationships

One of the main goals of a legal process outsourcing team is making sure they complete the tasks you set forth diligently and quickly, which in turn will usually help improve client experience.

In fact, with this extra help, not only will these clients have your primary focus, especially when you do not have to worry about who will be taking care of your administrative tasks, but this, in turn, can improve client relationships, allow you to interact with these clients more frequently, and ultimately provide these clients with a better experience that can increase business for your firm.

Get Help From Experts

When you work with a skilled legal back office team, you will have professionals at your disposal with a wide variety of knowledge and skills handling some of the more tedious legal processes.

As a result, working with these experts can provide you and your staff with significant benefits. For one, you will not have to hire costly employees to help you take on these jobs, and you will be able to rely on those who have done this job before and are ready to tackle these tasks and improve your system.

How Back Office Legal Can Help Your Law Firm

Back Office Legal has been supporting large and small firms for over 32 years with their back office services, client management needs, and operational efficiency. 

Our team of back office professionals helps law firms avoid firm inefficiencies and administrative hassles, which can help you save time and money in the process. Plus, our approach to helping you is centered around maximizing your time practicing law while we streamline your back office operations. 

Constantly, enough though we are paid like contractors, we will become part of your team. And for an affordable monthly rate, you will have a whole team that includes reception and intake professionals, director-level billing and collections staff, and highly experienced law firm back office support professionals in accountingmarketing, customer service, and more. 

Contact Us for More Information

If you want to know how a contractor can become part of your trusted legal team and ensure you get fast, reliable, and hassle-free services, contact Back Office Legal today for more information and find out how our experts can help you.

 

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