Today’s legal landscape is constantly changing, impacted by technological advances, new business models, and client needs and caseloads. Temporary staffing to augment your full-time team can be the ideal solution as you keep your firm agile, competitive, and responsive to both short and long-term demands.
The Strategic Approach
Temporary legal support provides a strategic approach to managing business fluctuations, accessing specialized skills, and minimizing ongoing hiring costs.
Administrative Support and Streamlined Processes
Whether you’re looking for extra hands to handle a special project or need to fill gaps during busy periods, temporary staff can assist with:
- Scheduling and calendar management: appointments, court appearances, and deadlines, to keep everyone on track.
- E-filing and communication: Including answering calls and inquiries promptly and providing regular updates, to enhance both client and staff satisfaction.
- Billing and invoicing: Temporary legal support can handle related tasks, as well as financial record keeping.
- Research and document management: Gathering and checking information, organizing and managing case files and correspondence, and ensuring easy document access and retrieval.
Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness
You can hire temporary staff for as long as needed, whether it’s a few days, weeks, months, or longer, without the long-term commitment of permanent hires. This helps you achieve:
- Scalability: Adjust staffing up and down based on current workload demands, paying only for actual hours worked. (Bonus tip: If you are awed by the performance of a temporary employee after assessing their on-the-job performance, you can keep them in mind as a possible permanent hire. They can be easily transitioned in, without the expense of recruitment, training, or extensive onboarding.)
- Reduced overhead: Benefits, taxes, insurance, and related employment costs are covered by your staffing agency, since temporary employees are part of their workforce, not yours. Yet, your agency will ensure the right cultural, as well as skillset, fit to meet your specific needs.
- Specialized skills: You can work with your staffing agency to find temporary employees with niche skills and expertise, such as current knowledge of AI and legal tech tools, which are increasingly being utilized to automate document review, contract analysis, and related functions. Or, your agency can provide quick access to professionals specializing in areas like compliance, litigation support, or intellectual property.
- The ability to focus on core work: By delegating routine tasks to legal support temps, attorneys can focus on core work, complex cases, and business strategies.
Your Temporary Staffing Partner in Fresno
A staffing agency that specializes in legal support placement is key to helping your firm meet its ongoing workforce needs. PrideStaff Fresno offers a pool of skilled professionals who can be deployed quickly to handle your workload spikes, projects, or employee absences. Contact us today to learn more about us and our vast legal talent network.
