Trial Engagement
10 hours. No charge.
Give us a real task from a live matter and judge the result on your own standards.
- No payment details needed
- No contract beyond the NDA
- Attorney-reviewed work
- Walk away with no questions asked
Remote Paralegal Support from Islamabad
The file work, done while your office sleeps.
HHLegalCo runs a remote paralegal desk for law firms in the United States, the United Kingdom and Pakistan. Research, discovery, drafting support and case organization, handled inside the software you already use, and reviewed by one of our attorneys before it reaches you.
Islamabad is 9 to 10 hours ahead of New York and 4 to 5 hours ahead of London.
Engagement Cover SheetForm RPS-1
Remote Paralegal Engagement
- Trial hours
- 10, no charge
- Before any file moves
- NDA signed
- Every task reviewed by
- Our attorneys
- Works inside
- Your own systems
- First task underway
- 2 business days
- Commitment for trial
- None
Exhibit A. The arithmetic
Most of a lawyer's day never reaches an invoice.
The hours go to chasing records, renaming files and summarizing transcripts. That work has to be done well. It does not have to be done by someone billing at partner rates.
2.6
8
8
Hours of an eight-hour day the average lawyer actually bills, according to Clio's Legal Trends Report.1
An attorney doing paralegal work
$349 / hr2The average US billable rate in 2025. Every hour spent indexing a production is an hour that could have been spent on the advice only an attorney can give.
rarely billed, often spentHiring a paralegal in-house
$62,890 / yr3The US median paralegal salary, before benefits, payroll tax, a desk, software seats and the weeks it takes to recruit and train.
plus overhead, plus the hiring waitHHLegalCo remote paralegal
10 hrs freeThen hourly or a monthly block of hours, scaled up or down with your caseload. No recruitment, no desk, no payroll.
- 1.Clio, Legal Trends Report: lawyers bill 2.6 hours (33%) of an 8-hour day.
- 2.Clio, Legal Trends Report 2025: average lawyer billable rate of $349 per hour as of January 2025.
- 3.US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: median annual wage for paralegals and legal assistants, May 2025.
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Exhibit B. Schedule of work
The work we take off your desk.
If a task follows a method and needs care rather than a law licence, it probably belongs on this list. Anything that needs legal judgment comes back to your attorney, flagged and ready for a decision.
| Item | Task | What it looks like in practice |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Legal research and memos | Case law and statute research written up as a short memo, with pinpoint citations your attorney can check in minutes. |
| 02 | Discovery management | Organizing productions, Bates numbering, privilege logs, and tracking what has been requested, served and still owed. |
| 03 | Document review | First-pass review and coding against your protocol, with hot documents and privilege questions set aside for attorney review. |
| 04 | Drafting support | First drafts of letters, discovery requests, motions and pleadings, built from your templates and your house style. |
| 05 | Medical records and chronologies | Record requests and follow-ups, page indexing, and treatment chronologies that a reader can follow without the binder. |
| 06 | Deposition and hearing summaries | Page-line summaries and topic indexes from transcripts, so the testimony you need is one search away. |
| 07 | Contract review | Clause extraction, comparison against your playbook, and redlines marked up for attorney sign-off. |
| 08 | Case and file organization | Matter setup, document naming, task lists and calendaring inside your practice management system. |
| 09 | Administrative legal work | Intake forms, client update drafts, time entry cleanup and the small recurring tasks that fill a Friday afternoon. |
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Exhibit C. Practice areas
Matched to the kind of law you practice.
A paralegal who understands personal injury files is not the same as one who understands immigration petitions. We match by practice area, not by availability.
Litigation
Support for the slow middle of a case, where deadlines stack up and the documents multiply.
- First drafts of pleadings, motions and discovery requests
- Exhibit lists, trial binders and witness files
- Deposition summaries and testimony indexes
- Docket and deadline tracking inside your calendar
- Research memos on procedural and substantive issues
Personal Injury
The records-heavy work that decides how fast a demand goes out.
- Medical record and billing requests, with follow-up until they arrive
- Treatment chronologies and provider summaries
- Demand package assembly from your template
- Damages and specials summaries
- Lien and balance tracking per client
Immigration
Careful preparation of forms and evidence, so your attorney reviews a finished package instead of building one.
Attorney review required on every filing- USCIS form preparation for attorney review
- Evidence binders and exhibit indexes
- Document checklists and client follow-up
- Support on responses to requests for evidence
- Case status tracking across your matter list
Corporate & Contracts
Volume contract work and corporate housekeeping, done to your playbook.
- Contract abstraction and key-term summaries
- First-pass review of NDAs and vendor agreements
- Entity records, minute books and resolutions
- Due diligence checklists and data room indexing
- Compliance and renewal calendars
Family Law
Organized, accurate financial and factual records for matters where clients are already under strain.
- Financial disclosure organization
- Asset, debt and income schedules
- Chronologies of key events
- Draft client correspondence for attorney approval
- Document requests and tracking
Pakistan Courts
For firms in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and beyond who need extra hands on research and filings without adding to headcount.
- Case law research across PLD, SCMR, CLC, YLR and MLD
- First drafts of plaints, written statements and writ petitions
- Paper books and annexure indexing for High Court filings
- Cause list and hearing date tracking
- Urdu and English working translations of documents
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Exhibit D. Docket sheet
From first call to first task in two business days.
No onboarding project and no long contract. Five entries on the docket, and then you decide.
IN RE: YOUR FIRM'S BACKLOG
Remote Paralegal Engagement, HHLegalCo, Islamabad
Remote Paralegal Engagement, HHLegalCo, Islamabad
Matter No. RPS-2026
Status: Open
Status: Open
| Entry | When | Proceeding |
|---|---|---|
| Dkt. 1 | Day 0 | A 30-minute callYou tell us which task is eating your week, which software you use, and how you want work handed back. |
| Dkt. 2 | Day 0 | NDA signedOur non-disclosure agreement is signed and returned before you share a single document. Happy to sign yours instead. |
| Dkt. 3 | Day 1 | Paralegal matched, access set upWe assign a paralegal who knows your practice area, and you give them a user seat in your own systems. |
| Dkt. 4 | Day 1 to 2 | First task deliveredWork goes through an HHLegalCo attorney's review before it lands in your queue. |
| Dkt. 5 | After 10 hours | You decideCarry on hourly, move to a monthly block, or stop. If you stop, access is removed the same day and nothing is owed. |
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Exhibit E. Systems
We work inside your software, not around it.
Your matters stay in your practice management system. We log in with a seat you control, follow your naming rules, and leave a clean audit trail.
Clio
Matters, tasks, documents, calendaring and time entries.
Filevine
Projects, deadlines, document sections and intake.
MyCase
Case files, client messages, documents and workflows.
PracticePanther
Matters, tasks, contacts and time tracking.
Smokeball
Matter files, automated forms and document management.
Also at home inMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceDropboxAdobe AcrobatSomething else? Ask us.
Product names are trademarks of their owners. HHLegalCo is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
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Exhibit F. Why a law firm
A paralegal desk run by attorneys, not a staffing agency.
Most offshore paralegal providers place a person and step back. We are a practising law firm, so the work is checked by people who know what a court or a client will do with it.
| Point of comparison | Typical staffing marketplace | HHLegalCo |
|---|---|---|
| Who checks the work | Usually you, after it arrives | One of our four attorneys, before it reaches you |
| Legal background | Varies by placement | Legally trained staff, working in an active law practice |
| If the fit is wrong | Start the search again | We reassign the work at no extra cost |
| Confidentiality | Often a platform's standard terms | A signed NDA before any file is shared, and professional duties on top |
| Commitment | Minimum hours or placement fees | 10 free hours, then hourly or monthly with no lock-in |
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Exhibit G. Chain of custody
Your client's file, handled like evidence.
Every engagement follows the same five steps, so you always know who has touched a document and why.
NDA first
Signed before you send anything, including the first sample task.
Access you control
A named login in your own systems. You can see what we open and remove it with one click.
One paralegal per matter
The same person works your files, so knowledge stays in one place.
Attorney review
An HHLegalCo attorney checks the work before it is handed back to you.
Clean exit
When an engagement ends, access is removed and working copies on our side are deleted.
Your professional rules come first.
In the United States, ABA Model Rule 5.3 and ABA Formal Opinion 08-451 allow lawyers to use outsourced support, including overseas, as long as the lawyer stays responsible for the work and protects client confidences. In England and Wales, the SRA Code of Conduct keeps solicitors accountable for work done through people they delegate to.
We build our process around those duties: you set the instructions, you sign off the final product, and nothing goes to a court or a client under our name. We do not claim security certifications we do not hold. If your firm has its own vendor questionnaire, send it over and we will answer it in writing.
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Exhibit H. Terms of engagement
Three ways to work with us.
Start with the free hours. If the work is right, pick the arrangement that fits your caseload, and change it whenever your caseload changes.
Part-Time Support
Hourly, or a monthly block of hours
For firms with steady overflow: a few matters, a recurring task, or a busy season that comes back every year.
- No minimum hours on the hourly plan
- Monthly hour blocks at a fixed rate
- Same paralegal on your matters
- Monthly invoice with task-level detail
Dedicated Monthly
A full-time paralegal for your firm
One paralegal working only on your files during agreed hours, as close to an in-house hire as remote gets.
- Full working day dedicated to you
- Priority matching and start
- Covers more than one practice area
- Scale up or down month to month
Rates are agreed in writing on the first call, before any paid hour is worked.
Practising on your own?
Solo attorneys feel this most. You are the lawyer, the paralegal and the office manager. Hand us the research, the drafting and the file organization, and keep your evenings for the work that needs you.
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Exhibit I. The people
The four attorneys behind the desk.
Every piece of paralegal work is reviewed by one of these four attorneys, matched to the area they know best.
M. Furqan Shabbir
Attorney
Ten years of contract management and commercial drafting inside a multinational. Reviews contract and corporate work.
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Waqar-ul-Hassan
Attorney
A decade managing litigation for a national telecom and two banks. Reviews litigation, discovery and recovery work.
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Ammar-ul-Hassan
Attorney
Compliance work for a firm in Denver, Colorado, under SEC and FINRA rules. Knows how US firms expect work to be handed back.
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M. Hadees Siddiqui
Attorney
Research and case briefs for the Office of the Attorney General for Pakistan. Reviews research memos and exhibit work.
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Exhibit J. Questions
What firms ask before they start.
If your question is not here, ask it on the call. A straight answer is part of the trial.
After the intro call and the NDA, we work up to 10 hours on real tasks from your files at no charge. You do not give us payment details and you are not signed up for anything. At the end you tell us whether to continue.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, at our office in G-11/3. The paralegal desk is part of HHLegalCo, a practising law firm, not a separate agency or a marketplace of freelancers.
Islamabad is 9 to 10 hours ahead of New York and 4 to 5 hours ahead of London. For US firms, that means tasks sent at the end of your day are worked on during ours. For UK firms, our afternoon overlaps your morning, so you can talk in real time when you need to.
Yes. Firms across Pakistan use us for case law research, first drafts of plaints and petitions, paper books and annexure indexing, and translation between Urdu and English. Billing is in rupees for local firms.
No. Paralegal work supports your attorneys. Your firm gives the instructions, makes the legal calls and signs off everything that goes to a court or a client. Our attorneys review the quality of the work, they do not take over your matter.
Yours. We work in Clio, Filevine, MyCase, PracticePanther and Smokeball, along with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Dropbox. If you use something else, tell us on the call and we will confirm before the trial starts.
An NDA is signed before any document is shared. We work through logins you create and control, one paralegal is assigned per matter, and working copies on our side are deleted when the engagement ends. We will also complete your firm's own vendor or security questionnaire.
Yes. Most firms start part-time, either paying by the hour with no minimum or buying a monthly block of hours at a fixed rate. You can change plans from one month to the next.
Tell us, and we reassign your work to someone better matched, at no extra cost.
Monthly, with a task-by-task breakdown of the hours. Your rate is confirmed in writing before the first paid hour, and payment details are set out in your engagement letter.
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Exhibit K. Intake
Tell us the task you would hand over first.
One short form. An attorney reads it and replies within one business day to set up the call.
What happens next
We look at your task, check we have the right person for your practice area, and come to the call with a plan.
- 01We reply within one business day
- 02A 30-minute call at a time that suits your time zone
- 03NDA signed, access set up
- 04Your first free hours start
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Closing Statement
Send us one task. Judge us on the result.
Ten hours of attorney-reviewed paralegal work, free, from a practising law firm in Islamabad.