As we find ourselves on the other side of this pandemic, we are now seeing just how much of a lasting impact COVID-19 will have on our legal system. In almost all fields of employment, there has been an increase of people moving remote- permanently. According to Forbes.com, 61% of workers prefer to work fully remote, and “by 2025, an estimated 70% of the workforce will be working remotely at least five days a month”. This, in addition to already established advances in technology, has resulted in the rise of the virtual paralegal. Simply put, a paralegal’s job is to assist attorneys by maintaining communication with clients, as well as helping them prepare for hearings, trials, and meetings. However, all...
Law firms around the world are still looking for ways to cope with COVID-19 and its impact, and so do law firms in Asia. While they are being exposed to many opportunities, some of them more exciting than the others, certain things will never be the same. The first quarter of 2020 brought a complete or partial lock down in almost every jurisdiction in Asia, which impacted business and legal work in a negative way. While deals have been held up due to the inability to accomplish certain tasks that were once taken for granted, Asian law firms for the most part have been engaged in keeping the staff safe and ensuring business continuity. Technology allowed law firms to move...
Covid-19 has created a lot of confusion around the world. However, it also made the world a smaller place. Many businesses had to transform their approach to customers, product delivery, marketing and so on. Those who survived the pandemic and now thrive are the ones who were able to see change as an opportunity to grow and faced the times of adversity with grace. Those who did not, had to close down. These times of adversity represent great tests for us as individuals and entities. They show our commitment to ourselves and to others because without commitment everything fades away. Just a year ago we were terrified about the impact the pandemic had on our lives, but today this is...
The world became so small even before the pandemic. We’ve seen trends of exodus to and from different countries, especially after the Marx’ era vanished. For us, humans, it can be traumatic to strongly believe in something or someone and then watch how that faith crushes down right in front of us. We also like to think that we are very different. Be it born in the middle of New York or somewhere in an Eastern European village. We like and tend to believe that our country was the worst, that our politicians were more corrupt, that the country we were born in was just unbearable. We like to consider ourselves as victims, because that’s probably the only role model...
If you have read my articles, you've probably noticed that a trend has been flushing across the board. What is interesting is that my pre-pandemic research content was more focused on the Law Firm of the future, which seemed somewhere far and "yet to look into", and here I am today, not too long after, writing in the present moment. Little did I know that the future was going to arrive so fast. It is also interesting to write remotely about the impact of the pandemic in another country or even another continent in a time where it seems like the world stopped. It is very difficult, however, to judge the situation from afar while sitting in a New York...
