Virtual Counsel® contract lawyers simulate your own full-time, in-house counsel – just as virtual reality simulates reality.
However, Virtual Counsel® contract lawyers require no overhead and will provide assistance only when needed. You can outsource as much or as little legal work as frequently or infrequently as your practice dictates. Our contract lawyers will work, on-site or off-site, as your needs dictate. This concept of “just-in-time hiring” gives you the flexibility to keep your legal department lean through both its peaks and valleys. Virtual Counsel® contract lawyers use technology to deliver instantaneous and seamless responses when on-site meetings are not required. The variety of work that you can outsource includes:
Corporate
- 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
Litigation
- Legal research
- Interview 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
- Organize pleadings medical briefs
- Small Claims Court matters
Examples of work outsourced to TVA:
- Legal research: opinions, memoranda of law or summary of cases found
- Reviewing and providing opinions on corporate agreements
- Full carriage of action including conduct of trial
- Bringing and defending interim injunctions
- Temporary placements for extended periods of absence (e.g. maternity leave)
- Translation of legal documents