How attorneys and legal professionals can work from home

Key quotes:

• "As legal professionals get back to the business of law, they will experience a new normal in the way that law firms look, operate, and deliver services."
• "Law offices will accommodate distancing recommendations by implementing various policies, including: Firm leaders will make the physical law office safer and more sanitary for lawyers, staff, and client visitors."
• "Other sanitation measures may include: COVID-19 has also placed a spotlight on employee wellness and the role that law firms should play in promoting optimal physical and mental health among its employees."
• "As such, the new normal will likely include sick leave measures that encourage employees to stay home when sick instead of coming to work and spreading their illness to other employees."
• "The new law firm will discourage this type of behavior instead placing value on health and providing sufficient sick leave policies."
• "Law firms may also implement counseling resources to help staff members deal with the mental and emotional challenges of the pandemic."

Key quotes:

• "Ineffective employee communication Like several other industries, the pandemic’s effect has forced the legal industry to speed up the automation of processes."
• "With the shift towards remote working, law firms are concentrating on infrastructure, including IT hardware, software, and cybersecurity measures to aid collaboration and measure staff performance."
• "The Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the value of chatbots for law firms, enabling them to streamline internal processes."
• "Adding a conversational interface to your app with Dialogflow Law firms are leveraging chatbots as the corporate source of knowledge for their employees, enabling lawyers and attorneys to effectively audit and obtain relevant documents."
• "Legal chatbots, offering up-to-date information and proactive delivery updates and alerts to employees, ensure optimal work productivity as well as customer service."
• "KLoBot is an enterprise chatbot builder platform that facilitates easy integration with NetDocuments, iManage, and many other legal software and services."

Key quotes:

• "For example, legal firms nowadays are adopting document automation technology that allows them to streamline critical processes, including document review, document redaction and form data capture."
• "Since clients expect instant and personalized digitally-proficient service, legal firms are looking to adopt technology solutions and best practices that facilitate communication anytime and anywhere."
• "Law firms need technology solutions that consolidate casework efforts and empower eDiscovery processes, making it easier to obtain what they are looking for and enable effective access control."
• "Moreover, people would not need to physically visit the courthouse, allowing legal firms to have more time to work in legal documents."
• "Until everything gets back to the new normal, courts can effectively proceed with the digital hearings and can even implement it post-COVID-19 for small legal cases to save more time and money."
• "Legal firms require technology solutions to implement effective and reliable work-from-home policies."