Services for Attorneys

Are you an attorney or law firm in New York or Alaska in need of help with:

  • Writing a brief, memorandum, pleading, letter, or other legal document?
  • Researching an issue you don’t have time to research?
  • Formatting and editing your legal documents before filing?
  • Editing PDF files?
  • Creating forms?

Reasonable hourly rates and flat fees can be negotiated.

The following are examples of services Erin has provided to other attorneys and law firms:

Legal Research and Writing

  • Motions
  • Post-Hearing Briefs
  • Appellate Briefs
  • FOIA/FOIL requests and appeals
  • Article 78 petitions
  • Letters
  • Pleadings
  • Research Memorandums
  • Other legal documents

Technical Reviews and Editing

  • Formatting
  • Creation of Tables of Contents and Tables of Authorities
  • Legal citations
  • Spelling
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Clarity
  • Concise language
  • Organization
  • Persuasion
  • Active Voice
  • Spacing

PDF Editing and Creation

  • Optical character recognition (OCR)  to make PDFs searchable
  • Combining multiple files into a single PDF
  • Converting documents and files to PDFs
  • Page deletion, extraction, insertion, reordering, rotation
  • Redaction of content, highlighting, commenting
  • Editing PDF content and adding new content
  • Scanning paper files to create a digital record
  • Bates Stamping, page numbering, headers/footers
  • Creating fillable forms and flattening of fillable forms
  • Encrypting, passwording, watermarking

Why Hire a Contract Attorney

1.  A Contract Attorney Costs Much Less than an Associate: You will pay an hourly rate or flat fee for only work done. You will not pay a salary, taxes, benefits, insurance, etc., as you would for an associate. The initial consultation with the contract attorney will be free, and you will be given a work product that should be ready to file, while you can handle other matters.

2.  Referrals: A legal research and writing contract attorney works with you not against you. If you have an ongoing relationship with such an attorney, she will refer clients to you, giving you both more work.

3.  Broaden Your Practice: With the assistance of a legal research and writing contract attorney, you can broaden your practice to include more areas of law, accept more cases, or accept cases with more complexity than you otherwise would have the time and resources for.

4.  Less Stress Meeting Deadlines: A contract attorney can ease your workload near deadlines. The contract attorney will take work off your plate and can often be available on short notice.

5.  More Time to Enjoy Life: With a contract attorney doing your research and writing, you will free up more time in your schedule to enjoy life.

For further explanations and additional reasons to hire a legal research and writing contract attorney, visit the following websites:

https://nwsidebar.wsba.org/2013/08/21/hire-contract-attorney-1/

https://nwsidebar.wsba.org/2013/08/22/hire-contract-attorney-2/

Rabinowitz Courthouse, Fairbanks, Alaska