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"Virtual Assistants and Ethics Considerations"

This post was written by Kevin Chern: "You have probably seen a lot written about legal process outsourcing and virtual workers. Virtual workers and outsourced legal services providers can help attorneys increase productivity and cut down the costs that might be spent on hiring full-time, in-house staff. Over the next few weeks, I'd like to dig a little deeper into the nuts and bolts of hiring virtual workers.

Making the decision to hire a virtual worker or pay for legal process outsourcing can be as simple as hiring an independent contractor fresh out of law school to do easy tasks, but if you are serious about using virtual workers on a larger scale in your firm and really getting the most out of it, it is important be aware of ethics considerations; price benefits and initial investments; and intangible benefits and costs when weighing the options of paying for a full-time staff, hiring on-site independent contractors, using outsourced service providers or juggling all of the work on your own..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 12 April 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).