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Case Management
Every matter opened, tracked and closed the same way, every time.
- Client intake & matter setup
- Family law file organisation
- Deadline & calendar tracking
- Case status updates
Certified Legal Virtual Assistant · Family Law
Your caseload, under control.
I'm Chantelle — a Legal VA with an LLB who handles the intake, files, deadlines and billing behind your family law practice, so you can stay with your clients and your cases. Remote support for solo attorneys in the US, UK and Canada.
SAST · overlaps US ET mornings & the full UK day
- LLB — Rhodes University
- Certified — The LegalVA Hub
- Clio · MyCase · PracticePanther
- NDA & confidentiality standard
If your practice runs on sticky notes and good intentions.
The growing pains of a successful solo practice usually look like this.
Deadlines you're tracking in your head.
Discovery cut-offs, response dates and hearing prep, held together by memory and good intentions.
Files nobody can find twice.
Financial disclosures scattered across email, Drive and Clio — and never in the same place twice.
Hours you worked but never billed.
Time entries reconstructed on a Sunday night, badly, from a calendar and a hazy recollection.
What I handle
Four pillars of practice support.
Everything below is administrative and paralegal-support work, performed under your supervision.
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Document Preparation
Court-ready formatting without the Sunday-night scramble.
- Pleadings, motions & correspondence formatting
- Discovery document preparation
- E-filing preparation
- Exhibit indexing & pagination
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Family Law Support
Specialist knowledge of the documents family law actually runs on.
- Parenting plan & custody document support
- Divorce & separation file organisation
- Financial disclosure organisation
- Child support & maintenance documentation
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Client Communication & Billing
A responsive front office and time entries captured as they happen.
- Professional client correspondence
- Appointment scheduling
- Client portal management
- Accurate time entries & invoice prep
LLB
Law graduate, Rhodes University
10-week
Certified LegalVA programme
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Core practice systems
3
Continents supported
Proof, not claims
Work samples.
The artefacts themselves — the documents, systems and schedules a family law practice actually runs on.
Document Drafting
Financial Disclosure Affidavit
Comprehensive tracking and formatting of assets and liabilities.
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Document Drafting
Parenting Plan
Structured schedule formulation with clear, unambiguous language.
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Case Management
Clio Matter Setup & Case Management
Standardised digital onboarding ensuring accurate metadata capture.
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Docket & Calendar
Docket & Calendar Management
Proactive deadline tracking on a 30/14/3-day tickler.
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File Organisation
Legal File Structure
A ten-category folder taxonomy for rapid document retrieval.
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Billing
Time Entries to Generated Invoice
Accurate, narrative-driven billing records ready for review.
View sampleAll work samples are drawn from supervised mock case scenarios. No real client data is shown or used.
An LLB behind every file you hand me.
I read law at Rhodes University, and my first real experience of practice was not a corporate internship — it was the Rhodes University Law Clinic, as a Student Defence Counsellor. I sat with real clients, took their instructions, drafted affidavits and letters of demand, and ran the legal research behind them under attorney supervision.
That is where the habits came from: precise notes, ordered files, deadlines that are written down rather than remembered. I then completed the ten-week certification with The LegalVA Hub to translate those habits into the systems US, UK and Canadian firms actually run on — Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther.
A reliable extension of your team — not another thing to manage.
Read my full background →The mechanics
How we work together.
Four steps from first call to a practice that runs without you holding every thread.
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Discovery call (20 min, free)
Your practice, your systems, your bottlenecks — and whether I am the right fit.
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Scope & agreement
Tasks, hours, tools, NDA and confidentiality terms agreed and signed before anything begins.
03
Onboarding week
System access granted, SOPs documented, first matters transitioned into a working rhythm.
04
Ongoing support
Weekly check-ins, written status reports, and every deadline tracked where you can see it.
Tools & systems
I work inside the systems you already run.
Case Management
- Clio
- MyCase
- PracticePanther
Document Management
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- OneDrive
Productivity
- Trello
- Toggl
- Clockify
- Asana
- Monday.com
Communication
- Zoom
- Outlook
- Gmail
- Slack
Legal Research
- Google Scholar
- CaseText
- WestLaw
Pricing
Transparent support, scaled to your caseload.
Flat $18/hr across every package. No hidden fees, no long-term contract.
Starter
$180/ month
10 hours / monthFor attorneys testing the water or needing overflow cover.
~2.5 hrs/week
- Document preparation & formatting
- Case file organisation
- Ad-hoc admin support
- Email support
Most popularBook a consult
Core Support
$360/ month
20 hours / monthFor a steady weekly rhythm of support.
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Docket & deadline management
- Client intake & matter setup
- Client correspondence
- Monthly time entries & invoice prep
Full Practice Support
$720/ month
40 hours / monthFor an embedded second pair of hands.
Everything in Core Support, plus:
- Full case management
- Priority turnaround
- Discovery & e-filing preparation
- SOP build-out for your practice
- Monthly practice status report
- All packages billed in USD. GBP and CAD invoicing available on request.
- Unused hours do not roll over. Additional hours beyond your package are billed at $18/hr.
- No long-term contract — 30 days' notice to pause or cancel.
- Not sure which fits? Book a free consult and we will size it together.
Questions
The things attorneys ask first.
I work in SAST (UTC+2), which overlaps the full UK working day and US Eastern mornings. In practice that means work you hand over at the end of your day is on your desk when you start the next one. Availability is Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm SAST, with flexibility arranged in advance for filing deadlines.
No. I am a legal virtual assistant, not an attorney licensed in the US, UK or Canada. Everything I do is administrative and paralegal-support work performed under the supervision of the retaining attorney. I will never advise your client, and I will always route substantive questions back to you.
An NDA is signed before any access is granted — it is step two of onboarding, not an afterthought. I work inside your systems rather than storing files locally, use unique credentials with two-factor authentication wherever the platform supports it, and never move client material into personal accounts.
I work to the procedural requirements of your jurisdiction, using your templates, local rules and filing conventions. My LLB gives me the underlying legal literacy; your practice supplies the jurisdictional specifics, and I document them as SOPs so the standard holds from matter to matter.
Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther for matter management; Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Adobe Acrobat Pro for documents; Trello, Asana, Monday.com, Toggl and Clockify for task and time tracking. If you run something else, I will learn it on my own time, not yours.
Book a free 20-minute consult. We talk through your caseload, systems and bottlenecks, then agree scope, hours and terms. Onboarding week follows: system access, SOPs documented and your first matters transitioned.
No long-term contract. Packages run month-to-month with 30 days' notice to pause or cancel.
Packages are invoiced monthly in advance in USD, with GBP and CAD invoicing available on request. Payment is by secure transfer or card through the invoicing portal.
Let's get your practice organised.
A free 20-minute call. We'll talk through your caseload, your systems, and where support would make the biggest difference — no pitch, no obligation.