Trustman provides premier legal support services to corporate law departments,Attorneys and law firms using our unique Global Sourcing model. Ingrained in our All-round Excellence culture is our fanatical commitment to quality and rapid responsiveness to client needs. Â That enables us to consistently perform at the highest levels of excellence is our qualified staff of highly trained and exceptionally motivated attorneys/ paralegal.
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Lawyer’s functions are best as members of a team and no lawyer can do everything. A paralegal or administrative assistant whose qualifications and skills meet your needs will effectively extend the reach and quality of lawyer’s practice. Attorney can hire someone to work full time on his payroll. However, technology increasingly offers an effective alternative as a virtual assistant.
Virtual assistants (VA) are paralegals or other administrative specialists who work offsite and online, creating work product with the specifications of the lawyer and adapted to the practice of law firm. They represent an extension of outsourcing lawyers and law firms have for years. Once the outsourcing was limited to email services and file storage. More recently it has come to include transcription of voice files for depositions, representing support for billing, data entry, graphics litigation support and legal research. These outsourced services are transparent to the client – to the extent that can now be done in India.
The relationship with a virtual assistant is complex and rewarding. As an independent business owner, the Virtual Assistant is neither an employee nor subordinate. Virtual assistants are more like an accountant or business consultant with whom the lawyer has a continuous working relationship. Become familiar with its practice and in line with their business needs as well as any service provider hired by a substantial period of time.
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After a year of generally flat compensation, paralegals’ pay is rising, according to the Annual Compensation Survey for Paralegals/Legal Assistants and Managers. The survey by ALM Legal Intelligence, a source of business intelligence for the legal profession, in partnership with the International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA), tracks compensation, billing rates and billable hours for paralegals. More than 250 law firms and law departments representing over 9,800 paralegal positions participated in the survey, which has been conducted annually since 2002. The results of this year’s survey included the following:
The number of organizations granting salary increases in 2011 rose from 64.9%
of respondents to 87.2% for paralegal positions that are exempt from wage-and-hour regulations and from 70.1% to 90.0% for non-exempt paralegal positions. Changes in base compensation were mostly positive this year, with ten of the eleven positions reporting increases in median base compensation from 2010. While both bonuses and overtime compensation decreased for the majority of the positions in last year’s report, the 2011 Survey shows increases for both in nearly all positions.
As in last year’s survey, the top two highest paid positions in 2011 are Litigation Support/Technology Manager and Paralegal Manager.  Law firm paralegal billing rates increased or remained the same for nine of the 11 paralegal positions surveyed. Rates ranged from $135 an hour for a Paralegal Clerk up to a median of $245 for the Paralegal Manager position.
The highest paid practice area for the Legal Assistant/Paralegal position remains IP/Patents/Trademarks. The IPMA/ALM Salary Survey is generally information from major law firms. If you are in a smaller firm, in a third or fourth tier market, the information may be very different.
