In today’s Spotlight on PILMMA series episode, Raquel Gomes, the founder of Staffi, joins us to discuss how hiring virtual assistants can help law firms support their operations.
This episode and the next several will feature PILMMA speakers in our “Spotlight on PILMMA” podcast series.
As law firms scale their practices, having the right support staff in place is essential. Now, more than ever, law firms have options when it comes to how to fill these roles. You can opt for a traditional route of having someone in office. You can hire remote workers who still work for your firm directly. You can hire agencies and outsource responsibilities. Or you can hire virtual assistants who are managed by an outside company.
In this episode, we discuss:
How hiring the right team can give lawyers time freedom
What roles can virtual assistants fill
The financial benefits of hiring virtual assistants
Visit Raquel online here: https://getstafi.com/what-is-stafi/.
We’ll be at PILMMA Super Summit 2025: https://optimizemyfirm.com/pilmma-2025/.
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Transcript:
Welcome to the Personal Injury Marketing Minute, where we quickly cover the hot topics in the legal marketing world.
I'm your host, Lindsey Busfield. In the age of remote hiring, we are well beyond the need to exclusively have employees in office, or even in the same state.
While some roles are helpful to fill on location, you can streamline operations and find substantial savings by filling the positions with virtual assistants.
Continuing our Spotlight on PILMA series, Raquel Gomes of STAFI joins us today to discuss her upcoming PILMA presentation, How to Thrive with VAs.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
Raquel Gomes
Thank you for having me. So, let's start out, tell me a little bit about yourself and about STAFI. All right, so I grew up in the south of Brazil in a very traditional family where my father was an entrepreneur and my mom was fully dedicated to her family.
And I heard often that because I was a woman, I had to choose. I couldn't have everything I wanted from life.
And my mom, she lived her life like that. And I love and admire her to death, but she's an incredible lady.
But that never sat well with me. That really created an inner fire. And I studied psychology actually to challenge those limiting beliefs.
And I decided early on that my mission was to help women believe that they can get to live a full life with everything they dream and desire.
She We've We've done it. it. well done. While having the time to do the things we love, while being able to be present for our families, while being able to stop working to go get my daughter from school, because that's what I cherish, and, you know, to take on those guilt-free vacations where you can bond with your family and friends, and I feel that time is our most valuable asset, and being able to be present is the most expensive luxury there is, and if you're doing everything yourself for your business, you're killing yourself.
That's not a life that I want for me, and it's not a life that I want for any law firm owner out there either.
And that's what we do at STAFI. We provide you with the support that your business needs in order for you to be able not only to grow your businesses financially, but also to be able to live the life of your dreams in your own terms.
And we do this by providing the best talent there is in Latin America. They're fully bilingual, college-educated, trained, and ready to go.
And we also Go one step further and provide you the support to alleviate you from onboarding, training, and managing of that VA because the truth is, anyone can tell you that they can get you good VAs, but then it's on you to onboard them, to train them, to coach them, and to incorporate them into your firm.