RESEARCH AND WRITING SERVICES
Your thorough and trusted research and writing resource.
Freelance. Contract. Project-based. Ghostwritten. Whichever term you prefer, here is how Ghost Legal can benefit your practice, your clients, and your peace of mind.
What does Ghost Legal do?
Ghost Legal provides high-quality, cost-effective, and time-saving work that meets your clients’ expectations and the busy demands of your practice. No matter what type of law you practice, my broad range of experience in civil litigation and criminal motions practice makes Ghost Legal an indispensable asset for meeting your deadlines and easing your workload. From complex cases to the most basic of actions, Ghost Legal can help. I work exclusively with attorneys and law firms and I don’t assist people representing themselves.
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Motions, briefs, appeals, and responses
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Research memorandums
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Pleadings and petitions
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Deposition summaries
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Bench briefs
How much does it cost?
Ghost Legal does not bill by the hour. Your concern is not the amount of time spent on a project, but the quality and accuracy of the delivered product. The billable hour distracts from the real purpose of working together: partner-level products at less than associate-level prices.
With upfront, flat-rate pricing, Ghost Legal adds stability and predictability to your bottom line. The pricing is transparent, so you can accurately predict and plan your outsourced research and writing.
For terms and conditions (come on, we're lawyers, we should all have them!), click here.
Is using Ghost Legal ethical?
The ethical considerations for freelance lawyers have been explored and permitted by the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, and most, if not all, other state bar associations. ABA Formal Opinion 08-451 approved of outsourced legal services, building on the ABA’s 1988 opinion on temporary lawyers (Formal Opinion 88-356).
In Formal Advisory Opinion 05-9, the State Bar of Georgia found:
“While a temporary lawyer and the employing firm or corporate law department must be sensitive to the unique problems of conflicts of interest, confidentiality, imputed disqualification, client participation, use of placement agencies and fee division produced by the use of temporary lawyers, there is nothing in the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct that prohibits the use of temporary lawyers.”
FAO 05-9 further observes:
“If a temporary attorney is directly supervised by an attorney in a law firm, that arrangement is analogous to fee splitting with an associate in a law firm, which is allowed by Rule 1.5(e). Thus, in that situation there is no requirement of consent by the client regarding the fee.”
Ghost Legal screens out potential conflicts and keeps all client confidences consistent with legal ethics standards. Although Ghost Legal does not form attorney-client relationships, it still carries its own malpractice insurance.