Can firms in England and Wales use paralegals based abroad?
Yes, and many already do. The real questions are quality and supervision: whether the person can do fee-earning support work to your standard, and whether the arrangement keeps responsibility where it belongs, with your firm.
Singularity fills paralegal seats two ways: vetted South African paralegals at a paralegal rate, or, for firms that want more headroom, High Court admitted attorneys who are genuinely happy running paralegal-grade work. Either way it is one named person, full time, working in your systems under your supervision.
The work these seats carry
- Disclosure and first-pass document review, tagged and flagged under your protocol.
- Hearing bundles, key-document chronologies and dramatis personae.
- Claims triage, letters before action and portal management at volume.
- Data-room management, transaction bibles and precedent upkeep.
The attorney option surprises people
Firms are often surprised that admitted attorneys are happy to take on paralegal-grade work: bundling, first-pass review, transaction bibles. Qualified hands on routine work is the point, not a waste of it. The attorney reads documents like a lawyer, flags what a checklist would miss, and grows into drafting work when you want them to.
Not a gig platform
This is not task-by-task outsourcing. You interview a shortlist, choose the person, and they join your team full time: your matters, your document management system, your hours, with South Africa sitting one to two hours ahead of London. Paralegals are vetted the same way our attorneys are, by the lawyers on Singularity's own team, and your first hire starts with thirty days at our risk.
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