What is an ALSP or an alternative legal service provider?

Not every legal task needs to be done by outside counsel, and sometimes in-house teams do not have the experience in certain projects that only come up every now and again. An Alternative Legal Service Provider (ALSP) does not provide legal advice or practice law but delivers specialized legal services. Many ALSP’s are technology providers, but Agile Legal focuses on legal project management and specialized paralegal work. For many law firms and in-house legal teams, it doesn’t make sense for them to do this work themselves or they may not have someone available with the right skill set and experience.  In addition, our services are primarily offered at fixed fees that make it easier for businesses and law firms to forecast expenditure.

If you think an ALSP might be the right solution for you, contact us now to discuss how we can assist you with your legal projects.

What is agile project management?

Managing a project well is complicated but essential to reaching effective outcomes. Agile project management is an approach that originated in software development. Projects are broken down into individual tasks, and feedback and testing is carried out after each step to optimize results and understand how individual parts of a project are impacting the whole. Agile Legal has taken the methodology of agile project management and applied it to the legal world so that businesses and law firms can reach higher quality results quicker – taking up less time and resources. For more information about legal project management, reference question 3.

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What is legal project management?

Legal Project Management (LPM) is a process for completing legal projects that considers how parts affect the whole. In LPM, projects are broken down into small components to ensure that no tasks are missed or fall behind. However, LPM goes further to not only consider the project at hand, but how the project correlates to, and impacts, the client’s legal strategy as a whole and the subsequent required actions that will arise from the project.

Have further questions about our process? Contact us here.

I am an individual with need of assistance, can Agile Legal help me?

Agile Legal serves companies and private funds with a variety of legal projects. Agile Legal does not provide services for individuals with personal legal cases. If you’re a law firm, visit Virtual Paralegal Services to learn more about how our innovative service model can help you better serve your clients with their legal matters.

Feeling strained due to limited funds and internal legal resources? Agile Legal has significant experience with medium-sized businesses on tight budgets. Book a consultation to see if we’re a good fit for you.

Does Agile Legal provide legal advice? Does Agile Legal practice law? Is Agile Legal a law firm?

No, Agile Legal does not provide legal advice, does not practice law, and is not a law firm. However, Agile Legal is an ALSP (see above) that manages legal projects and specialized legal tasks, helping clients meet their objectives without putting further strain on their team’s capacity.

How do I do business with Agile Legal?

Agile Legal’s process is simple. 1) Order a legal service using our quick order form. 2) We’ll schedule a follow up call to align our services to your requirements. 3) Sign our General Service Agreement (GSA) and you’ll be ready to send in work requests to our practice area teams.

Signing our GSA doesn’t include any financial commitment or commit you to a particular order – send in your work requests as and when they arise.

Some of our services are provided on a fixed fee basis, others at an hourly rate, depending the services, and we also have managed services that you can subscribe to for a set period of time.

Contact us for more information about how we conduct business and the different pricing used for particular services.

What is the difference between Agile Legal and Virtual Paralegal Services?

The main difference between Agile Legal and Virtual Paralegal Services is the clientele served and the services they typically require. Agile Legal works with companies and private funds, while Virtual Paralegal Services works with law firms. Our legal entity is Virtual Paralegal Services, LLC d/b/a Agile Legal.