Your caseload,
handled like
it is mine.
I take the drafting, discovery and deadline work off your desk so your hours go where they actually bill. Per matter, overflow or ongoing.
Accepting new mattersThis practice serves attorneys and law firms only. As a paralegal rather than a lawyer, I do not give legal advice or take clients of my own, and everything I produce comes to you as a draft for your review and signature.
About
My paralegal certificate comes from the ABA approved program at Edmonds College, and the studies continue at Seattle University School of Law, where I am earning a Master of Legal Studies in Compliance and Risk Management with graduate work spanning compliance, internal audit and risk management.
Based in King County, I serve law firms across Washington State, and Washington law is where I do my best work: its courts, its rules and its particular way of doing things.
Before law school, I spent eight years doing the work paralegals are made of: multi-state business filings, records that had to be audit ready, audits that had to come back clean, phone calls that needed a calm, capable voice.
Small firms consistently tell me the same thing: the work is there, and the hands are not. That gap is exactly where I fit.
Hand me the drafting, the discovery, the deadline tracking and the intake, and take back the hours that belong to your clients. Bring me onto a matter and you get someone who reads the local rules before asking, keeps her time honest and treats your clients with the same care I would want for my own. For the length of the engagement, your practice is my practice.
What I can take off your desk
Support from intake to resolution, in your systems and your templates. Most of this work translates across practice areas, so if yours is not listed, ask. Turnaround is quoted when the assignment is accepted and confirmed in writing, most projects come back within the week, and rush work is available when the calendar allows.
Family law
Trained on Washington's mandatory pattern forms and King County's local family law rules.
- Petitions, parenting plans and child support worksheets
- Financial declarations and supporting documents
- Discovery drafting and responses
- Declarations prepped for your signature
- Hearing prep and judges’ working copies
Civil litigation & personal injury
The paper side of litigation, kept moving and kept organized.
- Records requests, chronologies and medical summaries
- Discovery requests, responses and privilege logs
- E-discovery document review, Everlaw certified
- Deposition summaries, page-line or topical
- Motion shells formatted to GR 14 and CR 10
- Trial notebooks and exhibit management
- Court filings, working copies and records runs, in person where needed
Compliance & regulatory
My specialty, and the focus of my graduate work in compliance and risk management.
- Multi-state business and license filings
- Regulatory research and tracking
- Policy drafting support
- Internal audit prep, trained through graduate coursework at Seattle University School of Law
- Healthcare compliance research
Why contract help makes sense
Contract support is a variable cost
A staff paralegal is a fixed salary plus taxes, benefits, software seats and a desk, whether it is trial month or a quiet August. With contract help you pay for hours worked and nothing else. Scale up for trial, scale back after, with no payroll and nothing to unwind.
My time bills to the file
Substantive paralegal work bills to your clients at market rates, not at what you pay me. That principle comes straight from the U.S. Supreme Court, and typical paralegal billing rates run $100 to $200 an hour. Most firms bill contract paralegal time at two to three times their cost. I track my time in six-minute increments so your invoicing stays clean.
Already have a paralegal? Even better.
Some of my favorite engagements are with firms that already have a great in-house paralegal. I am not there to replace anyone. I am the extension of your team: the court runs, the filings, the working copies, the records pickups, the service coordination, the overflow drafting that quietly eats a skilled paralegal's week. Your team keeps the substantive work and the client relationships. I take the errands and the excess, and everyone goes home on time. Court runs are a flat $50 in King County, and unlike a courier, a paralegal is standing at the counter when the clerk has questions.
Think of me as backup your paralegal will actually be glad to see.
Credentials
Beyond the certificate: legal research across Westlaw, LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law, Washington e-filing systems and Microsoft Word at assessed proficiency including Track Changes and tables of authorities. Writing samples are available on request, prepared on fictional facts with no client information in them, and professional references are available the same way.
How an engagement works
Matter type, the tasks and the deadline. I reply within one business day with availability and a rate. The scope call costs nothing.
I run a documented conflict check against every party from every firm I work with, then we sign a short engagement naming the scope, the rate and the supervising attorney.
Drafts come to you marked for attorney review, on your timeline, with time records and a clean invoice at whatever cadence you like.
Rates
Billed in six-minute increments with line-item invoices. Flat fees and monthly blocks available when the work is defined. No charge for the first conversation.
Hourly
- Document and filing support $45/hr
- Litigation support $50/hr
- Research, drafting and cite check spot checks $55/hr
- Compliance and regulatory projects $60/hr
Flat fee
- Court runs in King County: filings, working copies, records pickups, $50 per run, $75 same day rush, confirmation sent the same day
- Deposition summaries, quoted from page count
- Full tables of authorities and complete cite-check passes, quoted from brief length
- Trial notebook assembly, quoted from exhibit volume
- Always quoted in writing before work starts
Monthly block
- 10 or 20 hours a month at 10% off hourly
- Guaranteed availability, priority turnaround
- Unused hours roll one month
- Steady overflow help without a hire
How the engagement is structured
I work as an independent contractor, the on-demand model. You engage me per matter or per project, exactly when the caseload requires it, and release me when it does not. No payroll taxes, no benefits, no software seats, no desk. You get a W-9 for your records and a 1099 handles the rest at year end.
The rates above are starting points. Every engagement gets its own written confirmation of scope, rate and the supervising attorney before work begins, so the number you agree to is the number you are billed. Costs like filing fees and postage pass through at cost with receipts. Invoices arrive at your cadence, monthly by default, payable net 15. No minimum hours, no ongoing commitment, and the first conversation is always free. Every file you send is kept secure from intake to closeout.
Notary & Guardian ad Litem
Notary Public
Backed by an active Washington notary commission. Notarizing a document that is already part of an engagement, a declaration, a power of attorney, a client signature on something I am already drafting or filing, comes at no extra charge. Mobile notarization for a standalone signing, where I travel specifically for the signature, is available for King County and Eastside firms and billed separately.
Guardian ad Litem IN PROGRESS
Guardian ad Litem certification is in progress, with Title 26 training and county registry placement underway. GAL work is the natural extension of what I already do: careful investigation, neutral documentation and reports a court can rely on. Firms with family law and guardianship matters will be the first to know when appointments open.
How I protect your files
Conflicts
A documented conflict check against every party from every firm I work with, before any engagement, every time. If there is a conflict I tell you and walk away.
Confidentiality & security
I will sign your NDA before you share a thing. Client materials stay in your systems where possible, and anything on my side lives on encrypted, password-protected devices, is never shared or stored on public platforms, and is returned or destroyed at your direction when the engagement closes. Everything is handled like privileged material, because it is.
Supervision
Everything routes through you. I do not advise clients, appear in court, set fees or sign pleadings. My job is making the supervising attorney's job lighter, not replacing it.
Questions attorneys ask
We already have a paralegal. How does that work in practice?
Your paralegal stays the lead on every matter and simply hands off pieces. Most firms start by routing court runs and records pickups to me, or by sending overflow when a trial or a leave crunches the calendar. You can add me to a matter in your practice management system as a contractor, or keep it simple and email the assignment. I invoice per task or per hour, so there is nothing to restructure and no seat to add. When the crunch passes, the work simply stops.
Do you work remotely or on site?
Remote by default, and most firms never need me in the office. For firms in King County and the Eastside I can come on site by arrangement, including short notice coverage when someone is out.
Who supervises the work?
You do. Every engagement names a supervising attorney, and everything I produce comes to that attorney as a draft for review and signature. I do not take work directly from the public, ever.
How do you handle conflicts?
Before any engagement I check your party names against a log of every matter I have touched for any firm. If there is a hit, I tell you and step aside. You get the result in writing either way.
How do we share files?
Your systems first. If you use Clio, a document portal or a shared drive, I work inside it so your file stays complete and access stays under your control. If you would rather use email, I return clean, consistently named documents with a transmittal note. Either way, everything sits on secured, password-protected devices on my end and nowhere else.
How fast do you respond?
New inquiries get a reply within one business day. On active matters you will hear from me the same day, and rush work is a conversation up front, not a surcharge surprise on the invoice.
What does it cost to find out if this fits?
Nothing. The scope call is free, flat fees are quoted in writing before work starts and there is no minimum commitment. Try me on one project.
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