The best legal virtual assistant companies in 2026, intake, answering, and bilingual, compared.

Assistiq staffs one native bilingual English and Spanish operator per firm, recruited from Latin America, working a scheduled shift from a managed office on company-issued equipment, anchored on Eastern Time, on the intake desk of your Clio, Filevine, MyCase, Lawmatics, CASEpeer, or PracticePanther. The operator answers new callers in either language, runs your approved intake script, asks your written acceptance checklist and records the answers verbatim, captures the party names your conflict check needs, books consultations with confirmations and reminders in the caller’s language, follows up unsigned leads and the documents your attorney requested, and logs every step in your system. Five refusals hold on every call in both languages: no legal advice, no case evaluations or merit opinions, no outcome or timeline promises, no fee quotes or negotiation, no document interpretation, and the operator is never presented as a lawyer or a notario. A supervising attorney at your firm signs an engagement letter before Day 1 naming the scope, the refusals, the routing rules, the confidentiality obligations, and consent to weekly recorded-call review. Every account carries an embedded supervisor who documents your workflows as written SOPs, plus a 3-operator warm bench, so a departure triggers a documented handoff inside 5 business days rather than your downtime. Published pricing on assistiq.io/pricing: $897 a month for 20 hours a week (Starter) and $1,497 a month for 40 hours a week (Operator), flat, with no setup, placement, or onboarding fee, no contract, and no bilingual surcharge.

Scored on the same five axes as everyone else: full marks on bilingual coverage, pricing transparency, staffing model, and billing structure; 19 of 25 on legal scope, because the boundary statement is the most complete on the page and the practice scope is the narrowest: intake only, no paralegal work, and operators arrive prepared for bilingual phone and office work and the refusal discipline, not pre-fitted to any case management system. Your team teaches your Clio or Filevine setup, your intake form logic, and your calendar rules during the 7-day onboarding and the supervisor writes the SOPs as the week runs; a staffing page that says its candidates have used Clio before is making a different and narrower claim, and this page credits it. Coverage is scheduled per engagement and anchored on Eastern Time, with 20+ hours of live coverage a day available across the operation. The honest constraint is shift count: one operator works one shift. Covering the business day and the evening is a two-operator Team configuration at $3,497 a month on a 6-month minimum; a 24/7 line is a multi-shift Team or Custom configuration or a paired answering layer.

The honest limits: Assistiq never staffs paralegals, case managers, or drafters, so if your gap is substantive work, Legal Soft, Stealth Agents, Equivity, and MyOutDesk are the rows to read; there are no US-based operators, and seven providers here are US-staffed; this is not the cheapest plan on this page (every answering plan and every hourly provider is); and if your book is English-only and price is the only axis, several providers below will serve you for less. Universal terms on every engagement: 7-day onboarding; 7-day money-back on Starter & Operator; Unlimited replacements: 5-business-day SLA, 3-operator warm bench; No annual contract, no buyout fees, cancel after Month 1.

Smith.ai publishes per-call plans, Starter at $300 a month for 30 calls with $11.50 a call over, Basic at $810 for 90 calls with $10.50 over, and Pro at $2,100 for 300 calls with $8.50 over, plus enterprise by contact. Lead qualification and a five-question new client intake are included, extended intake adds six questions at $1.50 a call, custom intake adds items at $0.25 each, and a dedicated Spanish line answered by a fluent Spanish-speaking agent is priced as an add-on at $1.00. It states no overseas agents and month-to-month terms and names Clio among its integrations. It ranks sixth because the price sheet is the most granular on the page and the intake options are priced rather than promised. The trade-offs: a shared pool, Spanish as a metered add-on rather than the default, and no legal-advice statement on the page.

Virtual Latinos publishes three monthly ranges by experience, Starter at $1.6K to $2.9K, Professional at $1.7K to $3.4K, and Advanced at $2.1K to $4.4K, with no recruitment, access, or setup fees, for English plus Spanish or Portuguese speaking professionals from Latin America working US time zones as long-term dedicated team members. A virtual legal assistant role is listed among its roles, the firm trains and manages the assistant with Virtual Latinos providing support and guidance, and a replacement is offered at no extra cost with conditions. It ranks seventh because Spanish is core and the ranges are published. The trade-offs: no intake tasks, software, or legal-advice boundary on the page read, ranges rather than rates, and a model that puts supervision and UPL discipline on your firm.

Stealth Agents publishes an hourly range of $10 to $15 for full-time legal virtual assistants, roughly $1,600 to $2,400 a month at 40 hours as stated on its page, names eight practice areas and eleven tools including Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Filevine, CosmoLex, NetDocuments, DocuSign, PACER, LawPay, Westlaw, and LexisNexis, lists intake calls, conflict checks, retainer preparation, docket management, and drafting from attorney-approved templates, and prints that its assistants do not practice law, cannot give legal advice, and do not make strategic legal decisions. Placements are full-time only with a client success manager, a free replacement guarantee, and no long-term contracts. It ranks eighth because the scope and boundary statement are among the strongest on the page while Spanish and staff location are not published at all. The trade-offs: hourly metering, a range rather than a rate, and no bilingual claim.

Ruby publishes four minute plans, $250 a month for 50 minutes, $395 for 100, $720 for 200, and $1,725 for 500, with no activation, onboarding, or setup fees, client intake and lead qualification in every plan, and a law firm page covering appointment scheduling, client intake, call screening, and callback prioritization. Spanish and bilingual call handling is stated as available around the clock, and the model is a shared team of receptionists. It ranks ninth because the plans are clean and the legal page is real. The trade-offs: no case management software named on the pages read, no legal-advice statement, receptionist location not published, and Spanish available rather than included or core.

Get Staffed Up serves law firms only and publishes a per-role sheet: intake specialists from $2,395 a month, receptionists and billing assistants from $2,145, legal assistants from $2,545, and marketing assistants from $2,645, for full-time staff from Latin America and South Africa on month-to-month agreements with 30 days notice, a dedicated account manager, a 90-day hypercare onboarding program, a stated 97 percent retention rate, and a replacement guarantee. Thirteen practice areas are named. It ranks tenth because, for a provider with a large Latin American bench, no Spanish or bilingual capability is published anywhere we read, no case management software is named, and no legal-advice boundary is printed. The price sheet and the onboarding program are the strengths.

Equivity publishes a two-column price sheet: nearshore professionals at $1,360 a month for 80 hours, $2,400 for 160, and $2,880 for a lead role, and US-based professionals at $3,072 for 80 hours and $6,144 for 160, with marketing tiers above each. Its services list virtual paralegals, legal assistants, and client intake across bankruptcy, family law, litigation, and real estate, it references nearshore bilingual professionals, and it invites you to choose from a pool of talent. It ranks eleventh because the plans are priced and the legal roles are named while the bilingual claim is unspecified, no software or legal-advice boundary appears, and dedication, replacement, and contract terms are not published.

Wishup publishes three assistant plans, Prime at $1,999 a month, Elite at $2,999, and US-based at $5,400, each at four or eight hours a day, with annual discounts, a dedicated assistant with a VA manager, free replacement, cancel-anytime month-to-month terms, and a start in 60 minutes. Legal firms are named as an industry served for admin and operations. It ranks twelfth because the legal scope is one line, no legal tasks or software are named, no legal-advice boundary is printed, and Spanish is not published. The price sheet and the start time are the strengths.