Category: IT Tech Series, ST: Connecticut, ST: Illinois, ST: Indiana, ST: Iowa, ST: Minnesota, ST: Nebraska, ST: Ohio, ST: Pennsylvania, ST: Tennessee, ST: Virginia, ST: Wisconsin (show less)
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Loosely characterized, we are now practicing law in the era we call “post-pandemic.” For members of a profession that that, for a century was notoriously unvarying in its systems and methodologies, the post-pandemic era has brought such rapid change in the processes used by attorneys, with consequential impact, that the results have been nothing short of transformational.
Imagine a year where, in the law office, audio-visual tools like Microsoft Teams and Zoom were practically non-existent, receiving a recipient’s signature on a document took at least a day, paying bills required check signers, and it was likely you had to be at work, onsite to have any access to your firm’s data network.
That was 2020.
Now, less than 36 months later, technology and tools that allow attorneys to practice law and work from anywhere are ubiquitous and forever gone are the days where clients and lawyers are required to meet in common areas for all meetings, endorsing and notarizing documents, mediations, and judicial hearings.