Fielding phone calls and scheduling meetings may be small tasks, but they can eat up a lot of time. Attorneys at big and small firms alike tend to lean fairly heavily on office support staff when available to take care of these tasks, but with tighter budgets and leaner staff, law firms and solo practitioners today often have less access to traditional staff receptionists.
While “virtual assistants” might conjure ideas about a law firm filled with robots, the term has come to mean a variety of different assistive technologies that attorneys have employed. Here are a few ways you can use a “virtual assistant” to automate away some of your administrative burdens:
