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Streamline Your Legal Work Today
Supporting Your Legal Practice with Professional Paralegal Services
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Family Law
Providing experienced family law support to attorneys, streamlining case management and client communication to help you focus on delivering exceptional legal service.
Wills
Providing dependable support to attorneys managing Wills, assisting with precise documentation and case organization to streamline the estate planning process.
Criminal
Providing dedicated support to attorneys in criminal cases, ensuring efficient document preparation and case management to help you deliver responsive representation.
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Effortless Support for Your Family Law Practice
Scale with Confidence
INTRODUCING
Contract FL Paralegal
Contract FL Paralegal, LLC is dedicated to supporting attorneys with high-quality, flexible paralegal services tailored to meet the demands of family law and other practice areas. Based in Spokane and serving Eastern Washington counties, we specialize in streamlining the workload for solo practitioners and small firms, helping you deliver responsive, thorough representation without the burden of full-time staffing.
Our experienced team works under your supervision, providing everything from document preparation and case management to client communication, so you can maintain focus on what you do best—advocating for your clients. As independent contractors, we offer a cost-effective solution that scales with your needs, making it easier to manage case fluctuations while preserving your bottom line. Whether your practice requires assistance with complex divorce cases, child custody, or wills, we bring over 40 years of combined experience to ensure each case is handled with precision and care.

At Contract FL Paralegal, we’re more than just support—we’re committed partners in your practice’s success. Let’s work together to make your practice more efficient, profitable, and ready to grow.
Elevate Your Practice with Reliable Legal Support
We created Contract FL Paralegal, LLC to meet the pressing need in Eastern Washington for experienced, contract family law support staff. In today’s family law legal market, many small firms and solo practitioners operate on tight budgets with little or no support staff. These entities often do not have the ability to hire experienced, full-time legal support staff dedicated solely to family law; that’s where we come in. Our experienced paraprofessionals possess a wide range of talents in all areas of family law.
There comes a point when doing everything yourself actually costs you more than getting a little help from a contract paralegal. Here are six great reasons why you should consider using a contact paralegal.
Peace of Mind
When things get busy there is always that nagging fear that you will miss something; a deadline will fall through the cracks; an important meeting will not make it to your calendar; or there will simply not be enough hours in the day to complete all of your client work with the quality you strive to provide. You may think you are saving money by operating on a short staff, but if the quality of your work suffers, you put your reputation on the line, not to mention the increased risk of a malpractice claim. As the song goes, “There is no dollar sign on a peace of mind.”
Scalability
You can scale the number of hours you use a contract paralegal according to your needs. Everyone’s work volume fluctuates over time, but attorneys working in family law litigation experience much more drastic swings in their workflow than other professions. This makes working with a contract paralegal the perfect option for litigation practices. You pay for only the time you need, only when you need it.
Profitability
Contract paralegals are a profit center for law firms. As an independent contractor, a contract paralegal is less expensive than paying for taxes, benefits, vacation time, sick time, and other costs associated with a traditional employee. Firms typically bill their clients at double the hourly rate of what they pay a contract paralegal, making a instant profit from the arrangement.
Rainmaking
When attorneys are consumed with just keeping deadlines met and existing clients pleased, they fail to “feed the pipeline.” All solo practitioners and small firms feel the constant tension between time devoted to the legal side of a practice versus time devoted to the business side of the practice. Neither of these can be neglected if a firm is going to survive long-term. Delegating tasks to a contract paralegal can help provide balance and free attorneys up to prioritize tasks to make sure they are using their time for the best value possible.
Attorneys Need a Team at Times
Even the best and most efficient attorneys need more support and teamwork at certain times. Preparing for a hearing, mediation or trial can be a daunting task for a solo practitioner or an attorney with limited support. Many times, you need “another pair of eyes and ears” for feedback, proofreading, strategizing, and maintaining your sanity during crunch time. We work very well with your existing team and are flexible to the needs of your office.
Your Clients Need Attention
Clients appreciate returned phone calls, answered emails, and updates on their cases (even when nothing is happening). This is essential to overall client satisfaction, gaining referrals, and earning a great reputation. But do you have time to add this to your juggling act? A contract paralegal can manage this essential, yet often neglected part of running a successful practice.
Comprehensive, Experienced Family Law Support Tailored to Your Practice
We are committed to helping our clients, the attorney, by providing quality and detail to your law office in the form of meeting with clients, drafting documents, trial preparation, mediation, case management, case strategy with attorney, case consulting, and hearing preparation in a variety of family law matters including divorce, child custody, child support, termination, adoption, non-parental custody, and property division. If requested we can enter orders, appear for docket call and case status conferences. We have a combined 42 years of experienced in working in family law and we are dedicated and have the ability to give your cases the attention that they require providing a personalized and responsive support that you need. We will work hard and tailor our services to your specific law office needs by providing highly accessible and responsive support.
How Does the Relationship Work?
Supervision & the Practice of Law:
We do not independently apply legal principles and judgment with regard to the circumstances or objectives of any person or entity that would require the knowledge and skill of a person trained in the law. We do not give advice on the legal rights or responsibilities of a person or entity. We do not select, draft, or complete legal documents that would affect the legal rights of any person or entity on such a person or entity’s behalf. (See, GR 24(a)).
As the representative of a client, the lawyer serves as advisory, advocate, negotiator, and evaluator of the client’s legal rights. (See, Preamble: A Lawyer’s Responsibilities, Rules of Professional Conduct, Paragraph 2.) We do not practice law, we do not hold ourselves out as entitled to practice law, and we do not engage in any activities described in RCW 2.48.180(2).
We solely provide assistance and support to attorneys who are licensed to practice law. To the extent that we are directed to engage in activities that would independently be considered the practice of law, we do so solely under the direct supervision of licensed attorneys in compliance with GR 24(c) and RPC 5.3 just like any other non-lawyer assistant. (See, in particular, RPC 5.3, comment 3.)
Confidentiality:
We are familiar with the obligations of attorneys to their clients pursuant to RPC 1.6, and every member of our office has signed a confidentiality agreement that binds us to the same standard with respect to our work for our attorneys. Copies of those documents are available on request. We use a secure paper shredding company to ensure that your client’s information is secure.
Conflict Checks:
We are familiar with the requirements of RPC 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, and 1.18, we keep detailed records of the cases on which we have previously worked throughout our careers. We check each incoming request for services against that information and use a practice management system, MyCase, to store all case information on all cases we have worked on since 2015 and check case information using this system. If a case is older than 2015, we also check the file to ensure neither of us worked on the case in our previous employ. As part of our agreement to provide legal services, we request that our attorneys confirm in writing that they have completed their own conflict check prior to requesting our services and confirm in writing that we do not have any access to information related to any case for which we have not been hired. Because we do our conflict checks on a case-by-case basis, we are not conflicted out of any case on which we have not been hired.
Communication:
Our attorneys determine how they would like us to communicate with their client. Some do not want us to communicate with clients at all. Others authorize us to speak to clients about certain matters and not others. Some authorize us to speak to clients in writing but not in person or on the phone. Others authorize us to speak to clients about all matters in all methods. Our attorneys determine the scope of our communication with clients for each case. In any instance, to the extent feasible, attorneys are always included (cc’d, etc.) on any communication with clients.
We also provide a case management system free of charge that facilitates communication between our staff, attorneys, and clients in order to make sure all parties have access to important information at any time.
How Do We Make You Money?
Independent Contractors:
The burdensome expense of maintaining employees is a common barrier to getting sufficient help for most small offices. Casework ebbs and flows, and the responsibility to an employee is not one that should be taken lightly. We are independent contractors who accept work on a case-by-case basis; as a result, you incur no obligation beyond the case for which you hired us. This results in scalable solutions that allow you to provide the level of service your clients deserve without incurring the ongoing responsibility of employing a large staff.
Profit Generation:
Most of our attorneys bill our work to the client at a reasonable surcharge, meaning that we charge the attorney a lesser rate for our hourly services than the rate indicated in the attorney’s fee agreement with the client for the time of a paralegal. We invoice our billable time in a form that is sufficiently specific so that it can be included in the bill provided to the client.
No Administrative Billing:
Absent specific instructions, we only bill our attorneys for time that is billable to the client. We only do casework, not administrative work, so if we are making money, our attorneys are making money.
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OUR TEAM
Our experienced team provides reliable, high-quality support to attorneys in family law. With 42 years of combined experience, we help streamline case management, drafting, and trial preparation—so you can focus on your clients.
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