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Build the remote support team your practice needs — paralegals, legal researchers, contract reviewers, eDiscovery — and see the cost versus local support staff, plus the fee-earner time you free up.
Quick Answer
Remote legal support staff through Zedtreeo start at $6/hour for legal admin and $8/hour for paralegals and researchers — typically 70–90% less than local support staff. The second win is leverage: shifting research and document review off fee-earners frees their time for billable work. Build your team to see both numbers. Zedtreeo provides staffing, not legal services or advice.
Paralegal
$8/hr base
Legal Researcher
$8/hr base
Contract Reviewer
$8/hr base
eDiscovery / Doc Review
$7/hr base
Legal Admin
$6/hr base
Research/admin hours your fee-earners currently absorb that remote staff can take over.
Zedtreeo provides staffing, not legal advice. Remote paralegals and legal researchers from $6/hour.
These figures are estimates for planning only. Your actual rate depends on role, scope, seniority, and engagement; market comparisons use representative benchmarks, not live quotes. Zedtreeo provides staffing, not legal advice or services. Spotted a number that looks off, or have an idea to make this tool better? — we read every note and use it to improve these tools.
How This Model Works
Transparent methodology grounded in real rates.
Per-Role Rates
Each role uses Zedtreeo's actual rate — legal admin $6/hour, eDiscovery $7/hour, paralegals, researchers, and contract reviewers $8/hour — at 160 hours/month for dedicated full-time staff.
Local Benchmark
Your team is compared against equivalent local support staff (US, EU, AU, or CA) using the same benchmarks every Zedtreeo calculator uses. We compare against support roles, not attorney billing rates.
Billable-Hours Upside
Optionally, the hours your fee-earners stop spending on research and admin are valued at a representative billing rate — an illustrative measure of freed capacity, not guaranteed revenue.
Legal Staffing FAQs
Understanding remote legal support economics.
A dedicated remote paralegal or legal researcher through Zedtreeo is around $8/hour, and legal admin support from $6/hour — typically 70–90% less than equivalent local support staff. The calculator totals your chosen team and shows the savings.
No. Zedtreeo provides staff augmentation — dedicated remote support professionals who work under your firm's supervision. It does not provide legal advice or legal services, and the calculator's outputs are estimates, not legal or financial advice.
Paralegals, legal researchers, contract reviewers, eDiscovery/document-review specialists, and legal admins. Build the mix you need and the tool totals the monthly, annual, and 3-year cost versus local staff.
It multiplies the fee-earner hours/week you reclaim by 52 weeks and a representative billing rate. It illustrates the potential billable capacity freed when research and admin move to remote staff — it is not a guarantee of additional revenue.
All staff work under strict NDAs and ISO 27001:2022 certified information-security controls, with access scoped to what each matter requires. Your firm retains supervision and control over all legal work product.
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