Focusing on Clients: How Outsourcing Frees Up Your Legal Team

Your legal team is, undeniably, the backbone of your business. 

They are the people who oversee client cases day in, day out, ensuring that they get the best possible results for your firm. However, when you’re also expecting them to carry out non-legal tasks that are not covered in their job description, you’re putting a lot of pressure on their shoulders.

With 62% of legal professionals admitting to experiencing burnout, this is something that you must work to avoid at all costs. 

What are the dangers of overworking your team?

• Making mistakes. When your team is overworked, they are far more likely to make mistakes. This could have an increasingly negative impact on case outcomes (and your clients), which also harms your firm’s overall reputation.
• Poor employee retention rates. As mentioned in a previous blog, while building a team of the best talent within your niche can be tough, keeping them onboard is even harder. However, when they are not properly cared for, your team will have no choice but to start looking elsewhere. 
• Lowered productivity. Whenever we’re asked to carry out a task that we’ve never done before or falls outside our skill set, it will take us a little longer to complete it than someone who is an expert in that field. Not only that, but it also takes us away from important work. This means that every time you ask a member of your legal team to help with marketing or sorting out your finances, you’re grinding productivity levels to a halt. 
• Reduced employee satisfaction rates. Legal professionals have undergone years of tough training (and plenty of exams) to be able to work professionally in the field. However, this was a task they were happy to take on, as it allowed them to pursue their dreams and work on projects that they are genuinely passionate about. Asking them to work on other non-legal tasks will, therefore, cause their overall satisfaction rates to drop.

What tasks can I outsource to free up my legal team?

Outsourcing is a great way to deal with many of the issues outlined above. After all, it ensures that tasks are carried out by an expert in the field, without putting too much pressure on your team. Furthermore, there are plenty of different tasks that you can outsource to achieve this goal.

For example, you could start by outsourcing administrative work, such as hiring a virtual assistant to manage your phone calls and inbox. This way, your team is not losing hours of valuable time a day to routine admin, but everything continues to run as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.

You can also gain a lot of ground by outsourcing accounting tasks. For example, by partnering within FinOp Group, you can work alongside a highly-skilled fractional CFO, which means that you’re essentially adding an accounting expert to your team (without the costs of doing so full-time). 

They will be able to help you with a wide range of tasks, from bookkeeping to tax planning and everything in between. If you’d like to find out more, please do not hesitate to get in touch today.