Hire vetted offshoreLegal Assistants.
Sprint Labs recruits, employs and manages legal assistants across Asia for companies in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK. You interview and direct them like an in-house hire. We handle the contract, the payroll and the compliance.
- Full-time, dedicated, employed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
Get a legal assistant shortlist
Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore legal assistant cost, and how does hiring one work?
A legal assistant through Sprint Labs costs roughly USD 900–1,300 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 1,400–1,900 for senior — one flat seat cost with no recruitment fee and no entity required. They keeps matters, files and deadlines moving so fee earners bill. Named shortlists land in 5–10 business days.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we employ them
Contracts, local payroll, HR and retention sit with Sprint Labs.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Fully-loaded annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Onshore ranges derived from the Hays Salary Guide (Australia) and Robert Half Salary Guide (United States), 2025 editions, converted to USD and loaded with employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figures are our own 2025 pricing.
What does a strong legal assistant change?
Every hour a solicitor spends on file administration is a written-off hour. Offshore legal assistants handle document preparation, matter management, court date tracking and client correspondence to a standard Australian and UK firms have relied on for a decade — at roughly a third of the local cost.
What they own
- Open, maintain and close matter files correctly
- Prepare correspondence, forms and bundles
- Track deadlines, limitation dates and court dates
- Liaise with clients and third parties on status
- Support billing, disbursements and trust records
What skills should a legal assistant have?
- Matter management
- Document preparation
- Practice management software (Actionstep / LEAP / Clio)
- Court date & deadline tracking
- Client correspondence
- File opening & closing
- Billing support
- Legal research support
Legal Assistant seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative fully-loaded seat cost including salary, statutory benefits, local payroll, hardware, HR support and Sprint Labs' employer overhead. There is no separate recruitment fee — your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
- Entry
- $550 – $850
- Mid
- $900 – $1,300
- Senior
- $1,400 – $1,900
- Entry
- $550 – $800
- Mid
- $850 – $1,250
- Senior
- $1,350 – $1,800
- Entry
- $550 – $800
- Mid
- $850 – $1,200
- Senior
- $1,300 – $1,750
- Entry
- $550 – $800
- Mid
- $850 – $1,250
- Senior
- $1,350 – $1,800
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing a legal assistant.
Check their deadline discipline
Ask how they track limitation and filing dates across thirty live matters. A concrete system with redundancy beats any assurance that they are organised.
Work sample beats CV claims
Sprint Labs screens every legal assistant on a short, realistic task drawn from the work you actually need done, then sends you the output alongside the CV. You see the standard before you spend an interview slot on it.
English and communication are scored
Written and spoken English is assessed and you get a voice recording before you interview, so you know how this person will land in a client call, a Slack thread or a handover note.
Add AI accent conversion for $1/hour per user.
If the role spends time on the phone, our AI accent conversion neutralises accent in real time so every call lands clearly with your customers — without losing the person behind the voice.
Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
Hire a legal assistant from Asia.
Questions about hiring an offshore legal assistant.
How much does an offshore legal assistant cost?
Roughly USD 900–1,300 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 1,400–1,900 for a senior legal assistant.
How do you protect client confidentiality?
Employment contracts include confidentiality and data-handling obligations, work happens inside your practice management system with no local storage, and access and device policy is agreed at onboarding to match your professional obligations.
Do I need a local entity to hire a legal assistant offshore?
No. Sprint Labs is the legal employer in-market. We contract the legal assistant, run local-currency payroll, handle statutory benefits and compliance, and bill you one flat monthly seat cost in your own currency. You direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house hire.
How long does it take to hire a legal assistant through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the employee and gives you time to hand over work — but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
