Paralegal Staff on Demand for Law Firms

MLT's founders  recognized a need in the market for  private firms and solo practitioners to have available professional paralegal services to help boost their small practices.  MLT is your business-to-business source for simple, streamlined human resources and staffing or acquisition of affordable, qualified legal assistants and legal support staff.

My Legal Team (“MLT”) is a service-based company for attorneys and firms wanting to outsource their legal staffing needs. MLT arranges qualified associates to work for our clients on-site, remotely, or via virtual office. Our organization provides full- or part-time, temporary, seasonal, or contract staff for all of our clients’ administrative needs: 

-Certified paralegals

-Legal assistants

-Administrative assistant

-Courtroom assistants

-Document couriers

-Process servers 

-Investigators

-Research specialists

-Forensic analysts

-Document preparers

Our mission at MLT is to establish a competitive presence in the staffing industry as being the premier local provider of legal staffing and consulting solutions for clients, by utilizing our dedicated team’s industry experience in allowing us to quickly match skilled legal professionals with the best available jobs.

MLT’s philosophy is underpinned by the fundamental principles of integrity, simplicity, and customer service in effort to champion the need for simplified processes in finding quality legal assistants– without compromising the rigorous screening and qualification commensurate with traditional hiring in the field. In bridging the gap between legal assistants and attorneys, MLT will market employment services for well-qualified legal assistants seeking opportunities, and staffing services for sole practitioners, partnerships, and firms.

MLT is emerging in an undeveloped local industry and enters into a competitive nationwide industry with only a few established legal staffing agencies; MLT is entering into a growth industry. Curiously, while there is a fair share of professional staffing industries in Colorado –including several medical staffing agencies– there are no agencies which place emphasis on the legal field. With the steady increase in the need for legal services and the apparent void of any local organization to link this need with attorneys and firms (who are simply too busy to bear the burden of having not only to secure clients, but also to find sufficient staff to assist in serving those clients), My Legal Team is poised to take advantage and pick up the slack.

MLT is comprised of people with extensive experience in all areas of the legal field. Our strengths include diligence, diversity, versatility, empathic communication, exceptional customer service, sound discretion, and strict compliance with all local, state, and federal laws. 

We have designed MLT to provide local, secure, and affordable business solutions, staff procurement, and information services that fall within the professional and ethical standards set forth by the American Bar Association (ABA) and National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). We have designed our services to instill confidence and provide ease of access for our clients.

We believe that MLT addresses many of the inefficiencies that adversely impact the legal field and staffing industry alike. The research and support segments of the legal field are highly fragmented and are driven by local demand, yet predominately facilitated by companies outside of Colorado. Law firms and legal professionals lack accurate and relevant information and services from outside companies who attempt to staff legal professionals and legal support team members in Colorado– without ever having met them face-to-face by conducting telephone interviews and implementing virtual qualification processes. Time, money, and opportunity costs are often needlessly expended by trial and error of these outside companies who are often unsuccessful in placing the right staff with the right firm in accordance with that firm’s individualized needs. Personnel are transferred multiple times through the outside company and most procurement processes are inefficient and labor-intensive. MLT is designed to simplify that process. 

In today’s technological age, the internet offers the opportunity to create a compelling global marketplace for person-to-person trading—the exchange of goods and services between individuals. This trading has served well to distribute goods across long distances, but leaves a vacuum for local markets where services are performed rather than goods delivered. This is particularly true for professional services to businesses. For a local market needing professional and business-to-business services, internet-based or virtual companies are highly inefficient because: (i) their fragmented, regional nature makes it difficult and expensive for local businesses to meet and negotiate for their services; (ii) they offer a limited variety and breadth of services; (iii) there is little, if any, oversight for services rendered or quality control; (iv) they often have high transaction costs and value markup; (v) they are information inefficient, as local businesses and professionals lack a reliable, convenient, and secure means of setting parameters for service-related needs, negotiations, and quality control when they utilize remote services from an online or out of state company. 

In light of these inefficiencies, our company believes that the market for business-to-business professional services needs to stay local and in close proximity to the parties utilizing those services. A local, brick-and-mortar professional services company can overcome the inefficiencies associated with an impersonal, largely contactless virtual business model with woefully insufficient supervision of services  —which only breeds variables and uncertainty—  in an industry where there is no room for error and which is held to the strictest standards in society. Indeed, precision and other standards for legal services predate our society. These principles have stood timeless and undisturbed since the ancient Greeks established virtues of democracy, the Romans established justice, and the English (from which American law is derived) adopted these principles. These societies applied the law from their jurisdiction and relied on aid from people within their borders. Here, we need Colorado attorneys utilizing Colorado personnel who know the area, can show up to the courthouse, and who are proficient in Colorado law. This can only be accommodated by a local legal support and staffing company who is always present and readily available to efficiently and expeditiously meet the diverse variety of needs of each of our clients.

We aim to accommodate such a local presence, in effort to provide personalized, professional services without compromising our clients’ confidence and expectations. Providing local staffing and legal support solutions where our clients are enabled to meet eye-to-eye over a handshake and a smile—is the only way to conduct professional services in a field where confidence, integrity, and trust are both paramount and vital. Local, personalized professional services are the only way to empower our clients to conduct ethical business in our local market. Simply put, professional services —especially legal services­— are best rendered in the area where they are needed, and very likely are largely inadequate when provided by online or outside organizations.  

We believe that the legal field has characteristics to create an attractive opportunity in the local staffing industry for business-to-business professional services, including large numbers of clients and personnel, increase in matching their needs, creating staffing solutions for our clients, fulfilling the potential and professional development of our personnel, decreasing fragmentation in the market, and significant dependence on local information exchange and large transaction volume. 

We believe that MLT will provide significant benefits to attorneys, paralegals, and legal support team members. Law firms and sole practitioners will be able to automate and streamline their procurement process, improve their production planning efficiency, and be more properly focused on marketing and generating new clients instead of chasing down the right personnel.

We believe that we will be instrumental in building our staffs’ networks and expanding those of our clients’, establishing the nexus and sense of familiarity that fosters trust in the legal community. Our staff will be able to improve their career search and ability to develop professionally by spending less time searching for the right firm and more time developing business relationships with those firms, as well as enjoy greater flexibility and latitude for providing value-added services. Our client attorneys will enjoy the ambition and zeal of our staff who are focused on doing good work for the right firm instead of merely looking for the right firm.