A Relativity Fest Panel today provided their top takeaways of the impact of Covid on the legal profession. Here’s the Panel’s top ten and my top three.
Relativity Fest 2021 kicked off today. Like last year, this year’s version is a completely virtual. (Will we ever have a live conference again?). Relativity provides secure, end-to-end legal & compliance software to analyze data for e-discovery, litigation, investigations, and other uses. It’s a giant in the industry. Relativity Fest is its annual conference designed to educate and connect with customers and others in the field.
On opening day, a group of who’s who in ediscovery and real thought leaders in the legal ecosystem offered their views of the impact Covid has had on the legal profession, among other things. Not surprisingly, given the strength of the panelists, their views were pretty much spot on. The panelists:
James Francis IV Andrew Peck Jared Coseglia David Horrigan Ari Kaplan Debbie Reynolds Maribel Riveria Ines Rubio Zach Warren
And here are the ten takeaways the Panel identified:
There is an increased use of technology by lawyers in general as a result of the pandemic. Since the Pandemic, the speed of hiring has increased exponentially. Hiring and interviewing are now conducted more and more virtually. It’s no longer necessary to try to juggle various schedules of those with hiring decision making for live interviews. Entities who don’t adapt to the new hiring nimbleness will be severely disadvantaged in the great talent hunt that’s going on. There is a struggle between individual goals and desires regarding work and organizational goals and desires. We see this in the clash between individuals who want more remote work and firms and employers that pine for a full return to the office. Business and law firms are