Virtual Assistance Can Help Your Law Firm Manage A Downturn

By Mike Lewis

Using a virtual assistant can reduce your firm’s overhead costs.

In the midst of an economic downturn are you doing everything you can to cut costs and stay afloat?

Many companies are now using an innovative service provided by virtual offices that enhances productivity and creates value in the global downturn—virtual assistance. A virtual assistant handles all the administrative tasks that take time away from your ability to focus on what you do best.

A virtual assistant helps you manage your professional and personal tasks just like an on-site administrative assistant, but without the overhead. The difference is you pay virtual assistants for time actually worked, opposed to a salaried administrative assistant who needs health insurance, vacation, and other employee benefits.

Pofessional virtual assistants conduct internet research, manage your personal and professional calendars, format MS Office applications, book your travel plans, coordinate events, speak multiple languages, and perform many other services—they are well-resourced to manage all your administrative needs.

Maria Flores, a virtual assistance user, says, “Since I decided to hire a Virtual Assistant, my life has been so much easier. Now I don't have to worry about time-consuming administrative tasks, and I have more time to dedicate to…my business and to my family.”

If only 5% of your time is spent on administrative tasks, that is 4-6 hours of time you are not able to bill a client for.

There are many virtual assistant firms and it is important you choose the correct one. Quality firms provide you with a dedicated virtual assistant, instead of farming out your work to whoever is available, and they work with you to find a virtual solution that best meets your needs.

Once you get used to using a virtual assistant you will forget how you operated without one.

For further information please contact: Mike Lewis, Principal, mlewis@excend.com. About EXCEND Consulting Group: EXCEND has provided consulting services to over 170 clients worldwide. The firm advises leading businesses on penetrating the Hispanic market in North America, as well as consulting international businesses on entering the North American market. Clients of EXCEND penetrate new markets at rates up to 3 times faster than their competitors.