An Overview of the services offered by Best Virtual Paralegal LLC (BVP)

Prelitigation Services

Prelitigation Services are excellent for busy attorneys with general tort claims and personal injury cases. Services include client relations, document preparation, and investigation. Our services are perfect for attorneys who need support gathering information from clients, witnesses, and experts.

• The Best Virtual Paralegal Team’s interviewing services consist of Client Interviews, Witness Interviews, Expert Witness locations, and Interviews. This also includes witness biographies summaries.
• We also provide document retrieval services to litigators as part of our prelitigation services. Our document retrieval services include sending requests, following up, and reviewing documents. Retrieval of documents can be performed alone or with prelitigation and civil litigation services. Read more about Document Retrieval Services here.
• The Best Virtual Paralegal Team also offers document reviews. Often, document reviews are used to identify and bridge gaps in a timeline or fact pattern. Document reviews can include creating summaries of witnesses, experts, provider lists, document content, and treatments and looking for relevant, responsive information. Read more about document review services here.
• To round out the prelitigation services, the Best Virtual Paralegal Team offers drafting documents, which often include.
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  Letters of Representation (LOR);
• Settlement Proposal Correspondences;
• Simple Cover letters;
• General Settlement Offer Letters;
• Medpay Demand Letters; and
• Liability Demand Letters.
• To read more about the Demand Letter Services offered by the Best Virtual Paralegal Team, click here.

• The Best Virtual Paralegal Team offers medical record review solutions that include record organization, indexing, chronology, and summary services. We help lawyers and paralegals meticulously organize and index documents before you review them.
• The Best Virtual Paralegal Team can save your team valuable time and money by summarizing hours of deposition testimony.

Research Services

The Best Virtual Paralegal Team founded the legal support services (formerly known as paralegal services) in 1990 (read our incredible story here) to provide legal support staff services to attorneys, solo practitioners, corporate counsels, large firms, and all attorneys. BVP has assisted more than 60K attorneys and legal teams on over 180,000 cases, projects, trials, and team-building projects yearly.

The Best Virtual Paralegal team offers legal research and general internet research to attorneys, solo practitioners, corporate counsels, large firms, and all attorneys. The turnaround time and overall cost of the research depends on factors such as the number and complexity of the issues, the juridical focus. Briefs are typically more expensive thana basic  Issues, reasoning, activity/action, conclusion (IRAC ) memorandums or internal memos of findings.

Key features of Best Virtual Paralegal’s legal research services are:

• No extra charge for using or access to our legal research for in-plan searches.
• Legal Research is typically billed on an agreed upon flat fee. We are completely flexible in the work product we provide our attorney clients.
• Our skilled paralegals provide affordable, reliable legal and general research to help attorneys evaluate cases, issues, trial preparation, strategic planning, or other purposes before or in support of litigation and prelitigation transaction analysis.

Writing Services

The dedicated paralegals within the Best Virtual Paralegal Team help our attorney-clients with pleadings in all fifty states at the state and federal levels. The services offered for pleadings include preparation and review services.

Drafting Services Include:

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  Affidavits
• Opening & Closing Statements
• Direct & Cross questions for Trial
• Affirmative Defenses
• Answers, Replies, & Oppositions
• Complaints | Petitions
• Correspondence
• Counterclaims & Replies
• Deeds and Other Real Estate Documents
• Discovery Documents (See below
• Motions for Attorney’s Fees
• Motions for Child Support
• Motions for Pet Care & Support
• Motions for Summary Judgements and Responses Thereto
• Motions for Visitation
• Motions in Limine
• Motions to Compel
• Motions to Dismiss and Responses Thereto
• Motions to Modify
• Motions to Quash Services, Services of Process
• Motions to Strike
• Notices of Hearings
• Notices of Removal
• Parenting Plans
• Pet Plans
• Settlement Agreements

Pretrial & Discovery

The Best Virtual Paralegal Team helps litigators juggle the pretrial and discovery demands when prelitigation and settlement fail. In ligation cases including federal, state, and local criminal cases we help our attorney-clients with the following discovery-related services:

·        Bills of Particulars

·        Deposition Summaries

·        Interrogatories (ROGGS)

·        Letters to Meet and Confer

·        Motions to Compel

·        Motions to Compel Discovery

·        Preparation of Depositions

·        Privilege Logs & Protection Letters

·        Request for Admissions

·        Request for Production (RFP)

Best Virtual Paralegal Discovery Services can include propounding, answering, gathering, reviewing, and organizing. Our dedicated legal support experts help lawyers and their clients navigate the discovery process with ease.

Trial Preparation & Document Reviews

Trial preparation and document review can include these streamlining services:

• Your choice of digital or traditional binder trial notebooks.
• Your choice of digital or traditional exhibit stickers.
• Indexes for pleadings.
• Indexes of production documents.
• Creation of timelines, videos, PowerPoint preparation of evidence.
• Witness bios and summaries.
• Document and production logs and summaries.
• Writing of open and closing statements.
• Creation of floor plans, accident maps, timelines, event charts, and more.

Fees, Costs, & Rates

The Best Virtual Paralegal’s Litigation Services help litigators set budgets that control resources, costs, and time. Many of the litigation services offered by Best Virtual Paralegals are billed and rendered on your choice of hourly, flat, and subscription fees. At the onset of services, each client is given the opportunity to sit down and discuss their budget. At this meeting, we will determine whether services will be billed hourly, flat, as a subscription fee. After the initial meeting, clients can upload or share new projects with us with or without another meeting.

We provide customized fee estimates after acceptance of a new project so the costs expectations align with the case budget. We let our attorneys-clients have complete control over case and service costs. The overall cost of the support staff services and litigation support projects depends on a variety of factors such as the complexity, number of issues, style, and the judicial focus of the services requested. We offer flexibility in terms of turnaround time, commitment of services, and style of the work product we offer and provide for our attorney-clients. The nature of the final work products is controlled by our attorney-clients. Best Virtual Paralegals do not exceed cost estimates, or budgets without consulting with its clients first before making any changes. The Best Virtual Paralegal Team welcomes limited budgets.

Need help now? Call or text us to speak to the founder, Holly A. Sheriff. There is no charge for the initial call or a service consultation, (717) 747-3588 or contact us for a quote.