Virtual Associates® contract lawyers simulate your own full-time associate – just as virtual reality simulates reality.
However, Virtual Associates® contract lawyers require no overhead and provide assistance only when needed. Outsource as much or as little legal work on demand to TVA as frequently or infrequently as your practice dictates. This “just-in-time resource” gives you the flexibility to keep your practice lean through both its peaks and valleys.
Virtual Associates® contract lawyers use technology to deliver instantaneous and seamless responses when on-site meetings are not required. The Legal Outsourcing Network® consists of over 90 lawyers across Canada. We can tackle any size project within any budget. The variety of work you can outsource includes:
Barristers
- Legal research
- Interview clients and witnesses
- Drafting
- Motions
- Examinations for discovery
- Assist on/conduct mediations, arbitrations, trials and appeals
- Assessments
- Examinations in aid of execution
- Carriage of entire matter
- Summarize clinical notes and records
- Conduct Medline and other medical research
- Organize pleadings medical briefs
- Small Claims Court matters
Solicitors
- Legal research
- Prepare for negotiations
- Draft documents
- Incorporations
- Minute-book reviews
- Due-diligence
- Assist on closings and other transactions
- Conduct searches and registrations
- Prepare income tax documents
- Provide opinions
- Prepare passing of accounts
Examples of work that has been outsourced to TVA:
- Legal research: opinions, memoranda of law and/or summary of cases found
- Constitutional challenge using a team of senior and junior Virtual Associates® contract lawyers
- Bringing and defending interim injunctions
- Full carriage of action including conduct of trial
- Reviewing and providing opinions on corporate agreements
- Management of a lawyer’s practice over an extended period of absence
- Drafting facta within 24 hours for emergency motions
- Same-day research for lawyer during trial on issues arising at trial
- Locating experts
- Translation of legal documents