This article from Law 360s is being updated on the status of over 90 law firms with regard to layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts and summer program changes. Click firm names in the chart to get details.
As discussed in our Covid call today, we are at the phase of planning our return to work where a survey of attorneys and staff is a good idea. Here are some survey questions and discussion about privacy rules affecting what you can ask and how you have to keep the data.
With a lot more people on Zoom and lots of bored people at home, jumping on random Zoom conferences and playing porn or just being verbally disruptive is becoming a thing. Is hour firm using zoom? Are you sending educational messages, blocking zoom or taking other actions?
Are your cloud providers still performing well? Have you had to implement any performance mitigation strategies? Microsoft Azure traffic is up 775% and they are implementing some load limiting strategies, such as slow xbox game downloads during the day.
One Chicago firm has setup a physical mail processing location in Wisconsin, just over the border from Chicago. Physical mail is being redirected there, scanned and the digital image sent to attorneys and staff working from home. This gets around the stoppage of physical mail delivery in population centers.