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A better answer than the in-house hire.

Same output. None of the fixed cost, hiring risk or idle time. Read it line by line.

Your bottleneck isn’t talent.
It’s bandwidth, and the cost of solving it the old way.

Matters stall while fee-earners do work a paralegal should be doing. Disclosure piles up. Bundles get built at midnight. And every quiet week, a salaried hire sits idle on your P&L.

Recruiting is slow, expensive and rarely reversible. A bad hire costs months. A good one still comes with NI, pension, software, holiday, sick pay and a desk: fixed cost against a caseload that never stays still.

We give you the output without the obligation. Skilled hands when the work arrives, paused when it doesn’t, and supervised before anything reaches you.


Line by line

The full comparison.

In-house hire
The traditional route
Paralegal Outsourcing UK
The flexible route
Time to productive
Weeks of advertising, interviewing and onboarding
Working on your matters within days
Cost structure
Salary, NI, pension, software, desk, holiday and sick pay
One clear rate: you pay for work, not downtime
Capacity
Fixed: idle in quiet weeks, overwhelmed in busy ones
Flexes with your caseload, up or down
Risk
Hiring risk, performance management, employment liability
No employment liability: scale or pause at will
Supervision
Yours to build, train and quality-check
Vetted and checked before work reaches you
Breadth
One person, one skill set
A team across litigation, drafting, disclosure and more

Trust & security

Outsourcing regulated work, done responsibly.

The question every partner asks first. Here is the honest answer.

Confidential by default

NDAs as standard, GDPR-aligned handling and secure, access-controlled working. Your client’s data is treated as your own.

Supervised work product

Work is checked before it reaches you, and you retain conduct and final sign-off on every matter. Accountability never leaves your firm.

Trained on UK procedure

Paralegals trained specifically on England & Wales court procedure, deadlines and documentation, so the work fits straight into your process.

Conflicts & audit trail

Conflict checks observed, clear records kept and a defined point of contact, so your file stays clean and inspection-ready.


Book a consultation

Find out what a dedicated paralegal could take off your plate.

A short, no-obligation call. We’ll map the work slowing your practice down and show you exactly how we’d take it on, confidentially and on your terms.

Confidential · No obligation · Typically a 20-minute call

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