Outsourcing More Than Legal Assistant Tasks
Last week I participated in a really interesting call with Laura Lee Sparks about outsourcing. Obviously I’m a fan of lawyers outsourcing work to a virtual legal assistant, but there are so many other ways to outsource and thus streamline your business and hopefully increase your revenue. In fact, as a virtual assistant there are tasks I should be outsourcing!!
Some great examples:
- Bookkeeping/billing
- Web site design
- Client intake
- Document drafting
- PR
- Call answering
- Court filings
I already do outsource some of my web design needs; I had neither the ability nor the desire to spend hours and hours trying to design a pretty logo for example! I also use an accountant to help me with my taxes and am working on training someone to assist me with transcription eventually. What tasks are you outsourcing and which ones do you think you *should* be outsourcing, but currently you are muddling along with?
Another point of the discussion on outsourcing addressed where to find good people to outsource to. You don’t want to waste time on in effective outsourcing after all! I realized I had never really considered it but even some tools are a way of outsourcing, like using Ruby Receptionist for call answering. And the best way to find help is of course to go to your network and ask for reliable references! Just yesterday I went to my Twitter peeps and asked for suggestions for one of my client’s needs and quickly hooked her up.
Speaking of Twitter, I have noticed in checking out my Blawger Survivor companions and many of them have Twitter feeds in their sidebars – love it! Check the feeds out at Two Lawyers in a Pod[Cast], The Connecticut Employment Law Blog, Leadership, Women, Lawyers, No Reins Girl. Twitter is my biggest online network and I love how involved so many lawyers seem to be getting in it. Okay, and I love that clients have found me on Twitter too!!
Laurie Mapp, Owner Halo Secretarial Services Contact us for more information on virtual legal assistance!
Thanks for the mention on your blog Laurie and I’m glad that the call was insightful. I love that you are working with some of our Personal Family Lawyers and as a virtual assistant you can help manage some of the other outsourced vendors!
By the way – one of the greatest things you can outsource this week as a VA is your housekeeping!! Best thing I EVER did
Laura Lee
That is a great suggestion – would love to outsource some cleaning tasks!