Above the Law report
It took a pandemic for this to happen, but it’s undeniable that COVID-19 has had a major effect on the legal profession’s willingness to adapt.
Within weeks of the shutdowns last March, those of us who follow legal tech trends were cautiously watching as attorneys who were displaced from their brick-and-mortar offices began to use cloud-based software out of necessity. Seemingly overnight, lawyers were intensely focused on learning as much as they could about the remote working tools that would help them get work done in the short term, at least until things “returned to normal.” Notably, at the time, it was expected that the stay-at-home orders would be in place for a few weeks, at most.
I described this evolving situation in my Above the Law article from March 19 of last year:
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https://abovethelaw.com/2021/02/has-the-legal-profession-reached-a-tech-adoption-tipping-point/
