Hire vetted offshoreLegal Assistants.
Sprint Labs recruits, vets, places and manages vetted independent 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 contractor agreement, fees, payments and engagement support.
- Full-time, dedicated, managed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
- Role-specific AI training included
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
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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 1,550–1,800 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 1,900–2,150 for senior — one flat seat cost with no recruitment fee and no entity required. A good hire 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 manage the engagement
Contracts, contractor fees and payments, time off, performance concerns and replacement sit with Sprint Labs. Role-specific AI training is available from their start, scheduled when it suits you.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Mid-Senior annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally in Australia, including employer on-costs.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Local figure: midpoint of the AUD 70,850–92,650 salary range (Robert Half AU 2026 Salary Guide (Sydney), 2026) plus default employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figure: typical Mid-Senior price (band midpoint) × 12, converted from USD at the mid-market rate of 2026-11-05. Indicative only.
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
Practical AI training for your legal assistant
Matter administration is deadlines, correspondence and files that have to be right. Training shows your legal assistant where AI can help with that volume, and why dates, documents and anything that reads as advice are checked and approved by the responsible solicitor.
Building a matter deadline list
Extract filing dates, limitation dates, court dates and response deadlines from synthetic correspondence and orders into a draft diary list for a matter.
Each date is confirmed against the source document and entered into your practice management system, then reviewed by the supervising solicitor.
Preparing routine correspondence
Draft status update letters, document requests and cover letters from your firm's precedents, filling matter details from a practice file.
Names, references and dates are checked against the matter file, and nothing goes out without solicitor approval.
Assembling a document bundle
Organise a set of practice documents into an indexed bundle with dates, descriptions, authors and page references ready for the fee earner to review.
The index is compared with every document in the bundle, and gaps or duplicates are flagged to the fee earner.
Using a de-identified matter file with several planted date and reference errors, they build the deadline list, draft two letters to review stage and explain which AI outputs they corrected before sign-off.
Available once your team member starts, scheduled when it suits you. No additional training fee.
Explore our AI training programme →Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Legal Assistant seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative monthly fee covering the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support, replacement and role-specific AI training. There is no separate recruitment fee; your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
What it costs
An offshore legal assistant through Sprint Labs costs about USD 1,200 to 2,150 per month, all-in.
| Seniority | Monthly all-in rate USD | Approximate monthly AUD | Local salary, Australia AUD per year | Local salary, US USD per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate | 1,200 to 1,550 | 1,714 to 2,214 | ||
| Mid-Senior | 1,450 to 1,800 | 2,072 to 2,572 | ||
| Senior | 1,750 to 2,150 | 2,500 to 3,072 |
USD ranges use the role's existing all-in rates across recruitment markets. AUD is an indicative conversion using Sprint Labs mid-market billing FX feed, dated 2026-10-21: AUD 1 = USD 0.69997032. Actual quotes use the rate at billing.
Local figures are annual salaries, not monthly all-in staffing costs. Blank cells mean no reliable, seniority-specific benchmark has been verified. No salary percentiles have been relabelled as seniority bands.
- Entry
- USD 1,300–1,550
- Mid
- USD 1,550–1,800
- Senior
- USD 1,900–2,150
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,500
- Mid
- USD 1,500–1,750
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,050
- Entry
- USD 1,200–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,650
- Senior
- USD 1,750–2,000
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,700
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,050
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 1,550–1,800 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 1,900–2,150 for a senior legal assistant.
How do you protect client confidentiality?
Contractor agreements 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.
What AI skills will my legal assistant learn?
Your legal assistant learns to use AI to build deadline lists, prepare routine correspondence and assemble document bundles, with every date and reference checked against the file. Legal advice and sign-off stay with your solicitors. Practice uses synthetic or de-identified material, and real client information is used only inside the systems and tools your firm authorises.
Do I need a local entity to hire a legal assistant offshore?
No. You sign a Master Services Agreement and Work Order with Sprint Labs, and Sprint Labs engages the legal assistant as an independent contractor. We handle contracts, fees and payments, engagement support and one monthly invoice. 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 contractor and gives you time to hand over work, but if you want to swap rather than offboard, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Is AI training included with this placement?
Yes. Once your team member starts, they can enrol in role-specific AI training with no additional training fee. You choose when they enrol, and the self-paced modules run during their normal working hours.
Can the training align with our tools and AI policies?
Yes. The course teaches general skills on practice material, and how your team member applies them depends on the tools, access and AI policy your business approves. If certain work must stay AI-free, they follow your rules. Third-party software subscriptions aren't included and are agreed during onboarding.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
What other roles are often hired alongside?
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.
