Featured Article: Adapting to the Outbreak Environment
The start of 2020 has brought much change to all of our lives as the COVID-19 pandemic has grown and spread exponentially.
In many communities around the state of Florida, the concept of attorneys working remotely from their homes became an unexpected reality, and did so nearly overnight, as leaders at all levels of our state government began requiring the closure of non-essential businesses in an effort to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Consequently, many Section members are struggling, both from the perspective of knowing what exactly is permitted and allowed in this dynamic environment that seems to bring new rules and regulations with each passing day, as well as from the perspective of knowing what their law firms need in order to quickly get up and running so that the attorneys and their support staff can work remotely from home while continuing to provide their clients with critically important legal services.
Read more about how best to handle client meetings, document signings, hearings, depositions, and mediations in the outbreak environment below.