Industry Focus: Legal Practices

Offshore support for legal practices.

Relieve your fee-earners from document preparation, research and administrative heavy-lifting with reliable offshore legal support.

Built for Legal Practices

Law firms face intense pressure to balance billable hours with extensive administrative demands. Offshore legal support specialists handle document formatting, intake coordination, basic research and matter administration, enabling your local team to focus on client advice and complex legal work.

How offshore support works in practice

Document Preparation & Formatting

Offshore specialists can assemble briefs, format contracts to exact firm styles, prepare court bundles and handle large-scale document compilation, ensuring fee-earners receive clean documents ready for review.

Client Intake & Onboarding

Manage the initial stages of client engagement, including collecting information, conducting preliminary conflict checks and setting up matters in your practice management system.

Billing & Accounts Admin

Streamline the billing cycle by having an offshore team member draft invoices, follow up on outstanding accounts and reconcile disbursements.

Common Roles

  • Legal Assistant
  • Paralegal Support
  • Document Formatter
  • Intake Coordinator
  • Billing Admin
  • Dictation Transcription

Need a specific role not listed here? We scope and recruit based on your exact requirements.

Discuss Your Needs

The relationship, made clear

You appoint us. We manage them.

You stay close to the work without being left to manage the offshore relationship alone.

Your appointment

Bridged Teams is your service provider

We support the engagement from candidate selection through to ongoing management.

Your direction

You direct the day-to-day work

Your offshore specialist works to your priorities, processes and daily instructions.

Our management

We manage the relationship

We coordinate payment and administration, support the engagement, provide performance support and coordination, and maintain ongoing communication.

You appoint us, we manage them, and you simply direct their day-to-day work.

ILLUSTRATIVE ROLE COST COMPARISON

A clearer way to think about the numbers.

The illustrative ranges below show a weekly view first, followed by monthly and annual equivalents. The Australian example is an illustrative gross wage including PAYG withholding tax and superannuation; the Philippines example is an all-inclusive engagement guide. For one team member, the difference can result in meaningful cost savings.

Australian role

AUD 1,620–2,310

Illustrative weekly gross wage

Includes PAYG withholding tax and superannuation

Illustrative monthly gross wage

AUD 7,000–10,000

Illustrative annual gross wage

AUD 84,000–120,000

Philippines-based role

AUD 390–620

Illustrative weekly gross fee example at 38 hours

Includes the specialist and Bridged Teams service fee

Illustrative monthly all-inclusive gross fee

AUD 1,700–2,700

Illustrative annual all-inclusive gross fee

AUD 20,400–32,400

Indicative difference / year

AUD 51,60099,600

Based on the illustrative annual ranges above.

The all-inclusive range includes our ongoing service fee.

It covers the ongoing management and support behind your offshore specialist, including payment coordination and administration, specialist engagement and support, performance support and coordination, and relationship support throughout the engagement.

You appoint us, we manage them, and you simply direct their day-to-day work.

The Australian figure is an illustrative gross wage example, including PAYG withholding tax and superannuation. The Philippines figure is an illustrative all-inclusive engagement example. These figures are examples only and are not a quote, guarantee of savings, or financial or tax advice.

Actual all-inclusive pricing varies depending on the role, experience, skillset and working hours. A consultation is the right place to work through the details relevant to your situation.

Common Questions from Legal Practices

Relevant qualifications and prior experience depend on the role. Bridged Teams screens candidates against your requirements, including legal support experience, systems knowledge and written communication.

Your practice controls access to its systems and information. Role scoping can include your security requirements, secure system access and confidentiality documentation, with your legal and security advisers confirming the controls appropriate for your practice.

Absolutely. Offshore specialists can adapt to your software, whether it’s LEAP, Actionstep, Clio or a proprietary system, just as a new local hire would.

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