Legal Virtual Assistants Who Keep the Deadlines in Order
Small firms rarely have a paralegal for every attorney, so formatting, intake and calendaring land on whoever has a spare hour, usually at night. A GetFriday legal virtual assistant takes on that admin. AI pulls together research and first-draft summaries, and your assistant organises them for an attorney to review.
A note on scope: GetFriday assistants, and the AI tools they use, provide administrative and paralegal-level support only. They aren't attorneys, aren't licensed to practise law, and don't give legal advice or opinions. Every legal judgement stays with your attorneys.
Missing a deadline is not an option
Formatting, intake and calendaring take real time. In firms without a dedicated paralegal, that time comes out of billable hours or out of your evenings.
- Formatting, proofreading and filing prep eat into billable hours.
- Intake and calendaring fall behind during trial or deal prep.
- Pulling together case law and statutes for review takes longer than it should.
- A part-time paralegal is expensive and hard to match to a changing caseload.
How an assistant fits into a small firm
Your assistant handles the admin around each matter; the law stays with your attorneys. AI speeds up research and drafting, and every output is checked by your assistant and reviewed by an attorney.
Documents
Filings, contracts and letters your attorneys have drafted, formatted, proofread and organised ahead of the deadline.
Intake and calendaring
New client forms processed and court dates, filing deadlines and meetings on one calendar.
AI-compiled research
AI finds relevant case law and statutes and drafts summaries. Your assistant checks citations and organises a research pack for the attorney to analyse.
Up and running within a week
Most clients are handing over real work within the first few days. This is how it usually goes.
Tell us about your firm
How you work, which tools you use, and the first jobs you'd like to hand over.
Meet your assistant
We match you with an assistant who has worked with solo attorneys and small law firms before, usually within one business day.
Start small
Your assistant shadows a few tasks first, learns how you like things done, then takes them over.
Change your hours when you need to
Add hours in busy months and drop back when things quieten down. No rehiring, no retraining.
We work in the tools you already use
Your assistant works in your case management, document and billing tools.
Case management
Clio, MyCase or your firm's platform.
Calendaring
Your court-date and deadline tracking system.
Documents
Word, Acrobat and your firm's templates.
Billing
Clio, QuickBooks or your time-tracking tool.
Support that fits your practice
A solo attorney and a ten-lawyer firm need different things. This is how we usually help each.
Solo attorneys
You're the lawyer, the intake coordinator and the office manager, often before your first hearing.
Your assistant handles intake and calendaring, so deadlines don't depend on your memory.
Small firms (2 to 10 attorneys)
Calendars, filings and intake across several attorneys need more support than you have.
A shared assistant keeps intake, calendaring and document formatting consistent across the firm.
Deadline-heavy practices
Family law, litigation and similar work runs on dates that can't slip.
Your assistant tracks filing deadlines and court dates as their main job, not something squeezed in.
What's different once you've handed it over
The list of tasks matters less than what stops landing on your desk.
New clients are processed and calendared without you doing the data entry. Every deadline is on one calendar.
Documents are formatted and proofread before you need them. Time records and billing stay current.
More of your time goes on casework and clients. Taking on new matters no longer puts existing deadlines at risk.
What attorneys tell us
Kevin Hylton
“I first heard about GetFriday from a friend who uses them. I was a bit skeptical about using them since they were off-shore and in a different time zone. I discovered very quickly that I had nothing to worry about. They work as if they are in the same time zone. I worked with one of their virtual assistant for about a year. They were very quick and responsive. One of the things that I loved about them is that you are really work as a team, so if your assistant is out ill or anything like that, there is always a backup person that seem to know your project just as well. I really enjoyed working with them and plan to use them again.”
Zero
Missed filing deadlines
2005
The year GetFriday started
80+
Countries our clients work from
24/7
Team cover, even when your assistant is off
Questions attorneys ask before starting
What solo attorneys and small firms usually want to know first.
Get your evenings back for casework
Tell us how your firm works and we'll match you with an AI-enabled legal assistant, usually within one business day.
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