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Are You a Virtual Worker Looking to Promote Your Services?

We have created two new categories for virtual worker issues.  The first category is a listing of virtual workers who have submitted their background information and websites to us.  That link can be found here. 

The second is a blog category which includes all of our virtual worker posts. That link is found here. 

If you are a virtual worker and want to get listed, go ahead and contact us.  We just purchased some job posting software which we will be implementing over the next month or two.  This will allow us to have a job board for both virtual workers and prospective employers right here on the Greatest American Lawyer Site!

Virtual Worker Recap

Since we are going to be having some upcoming posts on virtual workers, we thought we would recap our best posts on virtual workers over the last 3 ½ years.  As you know, there are tremendous benefits to incorporating a virtual worker into your law firm business model.  Here is our bullet list of favorite posts:

• Rolling Out Our Virtual Worker Program
• Virtual Law Clerks Take Over the World!
• Virtual Paralegal/Clerk Update
• Contract Work, Outsourcing, And Virtual Workers
• Finding Virtual Law Clerks
• Enter The Virtual Law Clerk
• Integrating Skype Into Our Virtual Worker Model
• Virtual Paralegals and Law Clerks as a Recruiting Tool
• Thinking About Digital Dictation
• Go Non-Solo Right Out of Law School
• Not Yet Announcing ... My Law Firm
• # 1 Tech Tip For Lawyers-Copernic
• What Makes a Good Worker in The Technology Age?
• The Flattening of the Legal World
• "The Billable Hour"
• Who is GAL Talking To?
• Law Firm Staffing Decisions Often Shortchange the Client

Virtual Paralegals for Hire

As you all know, I'm a big fan of virtual workers.  Every month, we get dozens of emails and unsolicited  résumés from virtual paralegals, law clerks and even lawyers who wish to work for our firm.  There is no question that there is a ready supply of virtual workers for the legal services market. 

In an effort to help promote the benefits of virtual workers and especially virtual paralegals, we will start a new message category called "Virtual Paralegals for Hire."  If you are a virtual worker who wants the Greatest American Lawyer blog to promote you and your website, just send us an email at Greatest.American @gmail.com and we will feature you here. 

Virtual workers offer a tremendous advantage to law firms.  They work as independent contractors on a flex schedule.  If you don't have work for them to do, you don't have to send them work.  If you get busy all of a sudden or need a quick turnaround, you can tap into your virtual worker pool and kick things out quickly and easily.  Every law firm struggles with the question of when to hire that next staff member.  While you will certainly pay more on an hourly basis for a virtually, you will not be strapped with the overhead of office space, employee benefits, health care, and a permanent employee (by weekly paychecks).  Give it a try.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised.