March 2022 – Amata

Reception Services: Make Sure To Keep Your Phone Number

June 11, 2025March 18, 2022 by Amata Law Offices

While you may be looking to adopt a new feature like receptionist service to your operations in favor of growth, doing so while having to change your number can actually be counterproductive. There’s lots of reasons why keeping your company phone number the same is important to your business’ long-term operation and growth, the most important of which we outline in this article.

Changing Your Number Can Reverse The Work You’ve Done To Establish It

In many ways, your business’ phone number serves as a part of its overall identity. It’s an essential piece of information that serves as the gateway between your office and clients, and as such, making sure that it’s well established to the public is important. This is why many businesses will go to great lengths to ensure that their phone number is well advertised, whether through print media, online directories, or even word of mouth. If you change your phone number, you risk losing the connection that you’ve already established with your existing client base. Not only will they have a harder time getting in touch with you, but they may also be hesitant to do business with a company that seems to be in flux.

Changing Your Number Can Be Unnecessarily Difficult

If you have a business phone number that’s been around for a while, chances are that it’s already connected to your company name in some capacity. This alludes to the administrative headache that comes with having to change it. In addition to alerting your current client base of the change, you’ll also need to make sure that your new number is updated on all of your marketing materials, website, and any other online listings. This can be a time consuming and expensive process, particularly for small businesses who may not have the resources to spare.

Changing Your Number Can Disrupt Your Operations

During a time when many businesses are struggling, it’s important to make sure that you’re doing everything in your power to maintain the stability of your company. This includes ensuring that all aspects of your operation are running as smoothly as possible, and that any potential disruptions are kept to a minimum. Making a change to your phone number can disrupt the flow of your business and introduce unnecessary complications, which is why it’s best to avoid it if at all possible.

In short, there are a number of reasons why it’s important to keep your company phone number the same. If you’re looking to make changes to your operations, it’s best to do so in a way that doesn’t disrupt your business’ phone number.

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Brand New Offices for Attorneys – 161 N Clark

June 11, 2025March 18, 2022 by Amata Law Offices

It’s hard enough to find good office space for lawyers in Chicago. Brand new office space with on-site paralegal and administrative services? Practically impossible. Unless you mean the latest floor that will open up at 161 N Clark. It’s an offer by Amata, and here’s what you need to know.

What Is Amata?

Amata is a co-working space that is designed and tailored specifically for attorneys and legal professionals. It’s a workspace where everything has been carefully curated and set up for the specific needs of the legal profession.

Which means all you need to bring with you when you work at Amata is your client files and your laptop. It’s the perfect, private downtown law office where it’s all done for you.

Perfectly Situated

When they talk about real estate, they always say it’s all about “location, location, location.” That’s even more true when the real estate is going to be used for law offices. If you want to be seen as a top firm, have access to all the best cases and be taken seriously, you need to have your offices in the right part of town.

The new floor being opened up by Amata is located right across from The Daley Center and City Hall, and you don’t get more central than that. It’s right in the heart of the business district, a perfect location for your practice.

Stylishly Appointed

Let’s face it. Appearances matter. Your office, including the building, the décor and everything else tells your clients a lot about who you are, what you can do, and more importantly, what you can do for them.

Amata offices are always perfectly decorated. They’re understated, stylish, and designed to be modern and comfortable but also professional. In other words, they’re the perfect foil for your law firm’s brand.

Check out renderings for the new floor here.

On Site Services

One of the big differences Amata offers our clients is the option to make use of on-site paralegal and administrative services. You can take advantage of all the professional level help you need, when you need it, without having to hire full time staff of your own.

From answering the phone to helping with research, typing your briefs to welcoming visitors, it’s all done for you at Amata Law Office Suites. If you need to source an affordable and reliable court report or pick-up last-minute supplies on a Friday evening, the team at Amata has done it before and have the resources in place to take care of it.

Managed Buildings

If you’ve ever rented your own offices, there’s a good chance you’ve had to deal with cleaning, maintenance and repairs, maybe even some delayed and over-budget construction costs. There’s a lot that can go wrong in a building, and it eats up a lot of your time.

Amata offices come with all the maintenance, repairs and cleaning built in. You never have to worry about anything that doesn’t directly impact your clients. After all, if you wanted to be in property management, you wouldn’t have gone to law school!

Tech On Tap

Of course, Amata offices have the very best internet connectivity and all the technology you need to stay connected, including pre-established VLAN connections for your law firm to protect the privacy of your documents and communications. But there’s another level to the Amata legal office service.

Everyone who works from an Amata office also gets premium access to the Amata app, which allows you to call, text and email your clients without revealing your personal contact information. So, you can take your office in your pocket without risking your personal security and privacy.

Work From Home While Maintaining a Digital Office

We’ve all learned recently that many of the important functions of our businesses and jobs don’t actually require our physical presence. If you’re planning to keep your services hybrid, you can still use your Amata office space as a virtual office to receive your mail, answer and forward calls and more. It means you’re finally free to have the work life balance you’ve been struggling to find for years, while still offering your clients the service they expect.

Who Benefits Most from Amata Law Office Suites?

Amata Law Office Suites are the perfect solution for lawyers who practice on their own or have a small partnership or practice. They are perfect for law firms that need a satellite office or are expanding into a new market. They’re perfect for the virtual law firm or law firm where many of the attorneys have moved to a hybrid office model. They’re perfect for people who want to keep their overhead costs low, but still project a professional image.

Amata offices also have all the extra services you might need built in, so you don’t have to hire extra staff until you’re ready to.

Whether you’re just starting a law practice or winding down before you retire, this is the perfect solution for people who want the amenities without the responsibilities and high costs.

They’re also great for lawyers who want to expand their services into Chicago, but want to test the waters before they commit to a long-term lease.

So, whatever your situation is, if you’re looking for a clever workspace solution that is flexible and accessible, chances are you’ll find it on the new floor at Amata.

A Downtown Presence

Even if your law firm has a larger office space in another part of the city, there’s a good chance many of your clients work and do business downtown. Maintaining an office at Amata for those times when you need to meet a client and they don’t want to travel to your office is a great way to compromise. You don’t need to relocate, and they don’t have to come to you.

How Far Is the Project?

If you recognize the value of getting an office at the new floor that Amata is launching in 2022, you’re certainly not alone. There are hundreds of lawyers who are already using Amata offices to take their legal business to the next level. These offices are in demand, and they’re likely to be snapped up soon after they are released.

Currently, work is expected to be completed on the new floor of Amata offices at 161 N Clark in July of 2022, and applications will open closer to that time. If you’re interested in this innovative legal office option, you can sign up for early notifications now.

Getting early notifications about the new floor at Amata is easy. Simply sign up on the website or call the office to speak to someone for more information.

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Full-Service Virtual Offices For Lawyers

June 11, 2025March 18, 2022 by Amata Law Offices

Attorneys starting off with their own practice need an essential support system to grow and prosper.

Sure, you have the ability to take care of your filing, administrative tasks, and answering inquiries.

But do you have the time?

When you devote less time to mundane yet essential tasks, you have more time to work on settling a case in your favor.

Let us show you what a full-service virtual office can do for your practice.

Various Plans to Fit Your Needs

Amata offers four different levels of service, all at affordable prices that come in much lower than hiring full-time staff.

Business Address starting at $75. We handle the mail, scan the mail, notify you by email when it arrives, and forward mail to your chosen address. We also offer discounted FedEx services along with specialized messenger services.
Live Receptionist & Phone starting at $49. A live person answers your phone from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. CT. Transcription for incoming calls and messages that we forward to your phone or document system. Listen to your incoming messages through your cellphone.
Live Receptionist & Phone with Business address starting at $175 a month. You get everything from the first two plans plus access to one of seven physical locations for you to perform legal work.
Virtual Office Plus starting at $275 a month. You get everything from the first three tiers plus keycard access to a physical office space 24/7 as well as 24 conference room credits/month to use whenever you wish.

The average cost to rent office space in Chicago currently sits at $37.56 per square foot.

If you pay $275 a month to rent space at that rate, your office would be a closet with no windows!

We offer physical space to work, meet clients and meet other attorneys, as well as staff, for much less than it costs to rent an office and hire full-time staff.

Using our virtual office services for your law firm lets you save money while you grow your firm. Even better, it gives clients and prospective clients a professional first impression of your legal services.

We Hire Knowledgeable Staff

Every Amata staff member who works for you goes through a four-person interview process at first. You have peace of mind that everyone who answers the phone understands legal terms, knows how to speak to other attorneys who may call the office, and can perform initial screenings of potential clients based on your requirements.

Better yet, when you need expert assistance for your firm, our team of paralegals, legal administrators, law clerks and receptionists act as an extension of your business.

We Know the Industry

Our team has been helping the legal community in the Chicago area since 2002, and we have nearly 75 years of combined experience helping law firms with administrative tasks. We have experienced property managers who help you with conference rooms, ordering discounted supplies and setting up your workspace.

Over the past two decades of providing full-service legal office support, we’ve helped over 750 attorneys in 27 practice areas generate thousands of lead shares.

We Own All of Our Assets

What sets Amata apart from other full-service virtual offices for lawyers is that we own all of our assets. When you need to set up a time to work in an office space or meet with clients in a conference room, you don’t have a middle manager to go through.

Our company owns what you utilize. When you talk to us, you talk to the owners of the space, the supervisors of the employees, and the ones who provide your services.

Take Advantage of This Opportunity

Are you a growing legal practice? We give you room to grow with our scalable yet customizable services.

Our top service starts at $275 a month. Let’s say you double that for $550 a month.

That’s still a fairly cheap overhead. The rest of your expenses can go towards billable time with clients rather than hard costs. In less than a couple hours worth of billable time, you pay for a month’s worth of office expenses.

Even better, virtual offices may be more normalized as we emerge from the pandemic that gripped the world for two years.

It’s All About Your Clients

The American Bar Association notes that some law firms returned to their offices faster than other corporate service entities following the COVID-19 pandemic. Some law practices utilized a hybrid model with some in-office staff and some virtual.

The ABA says that it depends on the clients of attorneys as to how you should approach your office space. You are probably figuring out how to solve the in-office or work-from home paradigm of doing business. Hybrid models are emerging as the prevailing way to return to normal.

Amata gives you a chance to wow your clients with a dynamic office space and conference room in downtown Chicago. We still have some pretty spectacular views to make a lasting first impression and creating a wow factor for your big-name clients.

We also allow you the freedom to work from a park, your favorite lunch spot, or at home with your kids. Secure cloud-based services let you work from anywhere, whether you’re organizing files in Clio or billing a client in LawPay. Some clients can appreciate hearing the squeal of your kids playing in the yard while you work on their case because they value a work-life balance too.

And It’s All About You

You worked hard in law school. You busted all-nighters researching cases and studying for the bar. You deserve to run your law firm as you choose to, not what tradition says to do as you try to pursue clients to grow your practice.

A virtual office space gives you the freedom for more work-life balance because most or all of your administrative tasks are taken care of. You don’t have to worry about your image since we take care of those details for you as a law-focused support company that understands the legal world in America’s third-largest city.

Amata, An Entire Company as Your Support Staff

Let’s get started. Call or contact us for a tour of our locations if you’re serious about growing your law firm while keeping overhead low.

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