Remote Legal Work for Moms

Discover how mothers can find remote part-time work in law firms without requiring a legal degree, with roles paying between $17-$40 per hour. These positions include client intake, scheduling, billing, CRM management, social media, and administrative tasks that leverage the organizational and communication skills mothers already use daily.

• Law firms, especially small ones, actively seek trustworthy part-time remote help
• Most positions range from 5-20 hours weekly with firms willing to train the right person
• Moms make excellent candidates due to their organizational skills and emotional intelligence
• Start by identifying your transferable skills in areas like customer service, organization, or communication
• Learn basic legal terminology through free online resources
• Create a resume highlighting relevant skills, especially confidentiality
• Search for opportunities on LinkedIn, Indeed, FlexJobs, Upwork, and through local networking
• During interviews, emphasize your reliability, consistent availability, and interest in long-term growth

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Chapters

• 0:01 Introducing the Little Launch Series
• 0:33 Remote Law Firm Work Without Degrees
• 1:28 Why Moms Make Perfect Candidates
• 2:33 Steps to Get Started
• 5:02 Searching for Roles and Interviews
• 5:41 Final Tips and Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Welcome to the Little Launch series, a mini-series from Little Hands, big Plans, a podcast where we talk about building a life of freedom and intention after motherhood, one small step at a time. In each short episode of this series, I'll walk you through one practical, flexible business idea that you can start as a mom, right from home. These are low-cost, practical, nap-time friendly ways to build income without sacrificing the season you're in. Let's launch something little that could grow into something big. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about how to find remote, part-time work in law firms without a law degree. So a common misconception is that you need to have a background in law or a legal degree in order to work at a law firm, and the truth is that many firms, especially small ones, are actively looking for part-time, remote help, and this can be in things like client intake, client management, scheduling, billing and invoicing, crm management, social media, email marketing, legal blog writing and many other types of administrative support. Many firms are looking for people that are trustworthy, that they can rely on long term for part time help, because many firms offer boutique style practices. So here is what you can expect. Pay ranges typically are between $17 and $40 per hour. Depending on experience, most roles can be from as little as five hours to 20 hours or full time. Most firms are also very willing to train for the right person. Some things that firms look for is professional, detail-oriented and, importantly, to be dependable. So many firms is a great fit for moms that are looking to work on a part-time basis or that are looking to work full-time. But remote Law firms, especially smaller solo ones, don't want to hire full-time. But firms still need help with the day-to-day operations that keep things running, and so moms are often the perfect fit because in our day-to-day role as mothers, we manage schedules and details daily. We're organized and emotionally intelligent. We want flexible and meaningful work and we thrive with clear tasks and deadlines. If you interested, this is how you can get started.

Speaker 1: 2:33

Step one identify your strengths. While you don't need legal experience, you do need to be clear about how you can help. What is your background in? Do you have a past experience in sales or customer service? Are you really good at staying organized and keeping calendars inboxes? You really good at staying organized and keeping calendars inboxes? Are you good at communication, which is very good for either client communication or with opposing counsel? Can you update spreadsheets or handle invoices. If your background is in, let's say, accounting, can you draft basic content like newsletters or social posts.

Speaker 1: 3:13

Once you know what your strengths are, you want to be also clear about what type of firms or legal area you might be interested in. If you learn a little basic legal terminology, this can go a long way. Look up terms like what does a retainer mean? Client intake, what is docketing? What type of software do lawyers use? If you want to go deeper, there are free legal admin courses on YouTube and LinkedIn Learning. Then you want to create a simple resume or services profile.

Speaker 1: 3:49

You can highlight your transferable skills like admin, writing, tech communication and your ability to work fast and work with confidentiality. Confidentiality is extremely important for most law firms because of the type of work that we do. If you're looking in your area and you don't find someone that needs you, you can also offer your services a la carte to various different firms in the area. You want to search in the right places. So where would you find these types of roles? You can look on LinkedIn and connect with local lawyers, especially because we often post opportunities on there and also share opportunities by colleagues. There's also Indeed, wisehire, flexjobs, upworkcom and WeWorkRemotely those tend to be the main ones, but you can also meet local moms and playgroups and talk about your availability and see if they know someone, and it never hurts to also just reach out locally to firms that you're interested in working with and offering part-time support.

Speaker 1: 4:57

Next, once you land the interview or call, you want to emphasize what your skills are. You're going to give examples about how you've done this in the past or why you would be good at it. Share your, your availability. Most firms like consistency, so, even if it's 10 hours a month, when are those going to be? Every Monday, you know, in the mornings, afternoon, evenings it's good to be consistent. And you also want to highlight your desire for long-term, flexible role. Most firms will want someone that can stay with their team long term and grow with the firm, and just remember that most firms are more open than you think. They just need someone that they can trust. So that's it for today's episode. Nice and short. If this helped you and you are interested, connect with me on LinkedIn. I often share different opportunities that I hear about that are in line with what we're talking about here, and leave a review and share it with someone else.