Most law firms searching to hire a Filevine-trained paralegal remotely run into the same problem: candidates who list Filevine on a resume but have never managed a live matter in production.
The difference shows up on day one.
Why Filevine Experience Is Not Transferable From Other Platforms
Paralegals who’ve worked in Clio or MyCase can’t transplant that experience into Filevine without a ramp-up period. The matter management logic is different. The document automation is different. The way tasks, deadlines, and client communication flow through the platform is different.
A firm that hires a remote paralegal expecting Filevine fluency and gets platform familiarity instead loses weeks of productivity while someone learns on live cases.
That’s not a candidate problem. It’s a screening problem.
What Filevine-Trained Actually Means
Before placing any paralegal in a Filevine-dependent role, we verify three things:
Which practice areas they’ve managed inside the platform. Personal injury, immigration, and family law each use Filevine differently. A candidate with PI experience doesn’t automatically transfer to immigration intake workflows.
Whether they’ve built or maintained matter templates, not just worked inside ones someone else configured.
How they handle deadline tracking and task assignment when things break. A missed court date because a trigger didn’t fire is a real scenario, not a theoretical one.
Candidates who’ve worked in production reference specific failures they’ve caught and corrected. Candidates who haven’t give answers that sound plausible but haven’t been tested under pressure.
The Cost Case
Paralegals in the US run $25-40/hour depending on market and experience. In Latin America, a Filevine-trained paralegal with equivalent case management experience runs $12-18/hour with markup.
That math only works if the person is actually trained, not just listed as such.
What to Ask Any Staffing Firm
How do you verify Filevine experience beyond the resume? If the answer is “we ask them in the interview,” that’s not a screen. That’s a conversation.
The right answer involves a scenario-based assessment tied to the practice area the role requires.
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