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Legal & compliance support for law firms & In-House legal teams

By Zack Pennington, CEO Updated

Compliance deadlines don't wait, and neither do FOIA requests, immigration audit timelines, or court filing windows. Attorneys and legal operations managers who are already billing hours or managing teams often don't have bandwidth to own the administrative layer of compliance work: tracking, organizing, and flagging, without something slipping. Nacho's US-based fractional EAs and specialists handle that layer so your legal staff stays focused on practice, not process.

Tools we work with: Clio Docketbird PACER

Can a Virtual Assistant handle legal & compliance support for lawyers and law firms?

Yes. Nacho matches lawyers and law firms with a vetted, 100% US-based Executive Assistant or Specialist who owns legal & compliance support week after week, not a one-off task. Onboarding starts with a $300 Delegation Strategy Plan, your Talent Budget starts at $1,000 a month, and matching takes about a week.

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How it works

How delegated legal & compliance support works for lawyers and law firms

A Nacho EA supporting legal and compliance work operates inside the tools your team already uses: Clio for matter and document management, PACER for federal court docket monitoring, and Docketbird for deadline alerts and filing tracking. Day-to-day, that might look like pulling docket updates each morning and flagging anything with a response deadline, maintaining an organized FOIA request log with status and due dates, or building out an immigration audit preparation checklist and gathering the supporting documents your attorney needs before a client meeting. Your role is to review, decide, and sign off: the EA handles the retrieval, organization, and calendar management that keeps those decisions timely. Nacho has logged 55 time entries for legal and compliance support work across client engagements, so the workflows here aren't being built from scratch.

Off your plate

What comes off your plate

Before your EA's first week, pull together a list of your active matters that have compliance components: even a rough spreadsheet with matter names, relevant deadlines, and the tools or portals involved is enough to get started. The most common mistake attorneys make when delegating this work is assuming the EA needs to understand the legal strategy; they don't: they need to understand the process, the deadlines, and where things live. The clearer you are about those three things upfront, the faster the EA can take the tracking and organization off your plate entirely.

  1. FOIA Request Tracking and Status Management

    EA maintains a running log of submitted FOIA requests, tracks agency response deadlines, and flags overdue responses or required appeals windows.

  2. Compliance Deadline Monitoring via Docketbird

    EA configures and monitors Docketbird alerts for court filing deadlines, reviews incoming notifications daily, and updates the internal deadline calendar accordingly.

  3. Immigration Audit Preparation Support

    EA organizes I-9 documentation, compiles employee files against audit checklists, and flags any missing or expiring records ahead of scheduled audits.

  4. PACER Docket Pulls and Case Monitoring

    EA runs scheduled PACER searches on active matters, downloads relevant filings, and routes new entries to the appropriate attorney or matter folder in Clio.

  5. Document Filing and Matter Organization in Clio

    EA uploads, labels, and organizes compliance-related documents within Clio matters, ensuring naming conventions and folder structures stay consistent across the practice.

Your stack

Tools our team works with

We adapt to your existing stack, no forced migrations.

PandaDoc
SharePoint
Airtable
Notion
Google Workspace
DocuSign

...and many more!

Client proof

Trusted by lawyers and law firms

Nacho supports lawyers and law firms including Advantage Evans, La Firma Inmigrantes Primero, Rupal Law, handling everything from legal & compliance support to broader operational support.

The model

What delegating to Nacho actually looks like

This is ongoing delegation to one vetted, US-based person, not a task posted to a marketplace.

  1. Start with a Delegation Strategy Plan

    A one-time $300 onboarding fee pairs you with a Client Success Manager who maps what to hand off first. See the full process.

  2. Get matched in about a week

    We match you with a vetted, 100% US-based Executive Assistant or Specialist in your time zone. If the fit is not right, the Nacho Guarantee re-matches you free.

  3. Set a monthly Talent Budget

    Budgets start at $1,000 a month and draw across Executive Assistants from $40/hr, Specialists from $65/hr, and Fractional Executives from $125/hr. Up to $200 of unused budget rolls over each month. See pricing in detail.

  4. Three months, then month to month

    The initial term is three months so the working relationship has time to compound, then it rolls month to month. Book a discovery call to size yours.

Talent Budget

What delegating legal & compliance support costs for lawyers and law firms

Drag the sliders to build a monthly plan that fits your workload.

Executive Assistants
from $40/hour
15 hours $600
Specialists
from $65/hour
10 hours $650
Fractional Executives
from $125/hour
5 hours $625
Your monthly budget
$1,875

Starting at $1,000/month. One-time $300 onboarding fee includes your Delegation Strategy Plan.

Good questions

Frequently asked questions

Can a Nacho EA access PACER and Clio on behalf of our firm?
Yes: EAs routinely work inside client-provided accounts for PACER, Clio, and Docketbird under your firm's credentials and access controls. You maintain ownership of all accounts and data; the EA operates as an authorized user within whatever permission level you set.
Is this appropriate for in-house legal teams, or is it primarily for law firms?
Both. In-house legal teams often use Nacho EAs for compliance calendar management, regulatory filing tracking, and document organization work that doesn't require attorney-level judgment but still needs to be done accurately and on time. The workflows are similar, the matter context is just internal rather than client-facing.
What's the difference between what a paralegal does and what a Nacho EA handles for compliance support?
A paralegal typically works on substantive legal tasks under attorney supervision: drafting, legal research, case preparation. A Nacho EA handles the administrative and operational layer: tracking deadlines, organizing documents, monitoring dockets, and preparing materials for attorney review. The EA is not providing legal services; they're making sure nothing falls through the cracks on the process side.

Ready when you are

Get compliance tracking off your plate

Nacho's monthly talent budget starts at $1,000 with a one-time $300 onboarding fee, including a Delegation Strategy Plan built around your firm's specific compliance workflows. Up to $200 of unused budget rolls over each month, and there's no guesswork about what your EA should be doing on day one.

Not sure yet? See how it works, compare the Executive Assistant, Specialist, and Fractional Executive roles, or read why we stayed 100% US-based.