According to the 2020 Clio Legal Trends Report, 23 percent of legal consumers thought law firms closed during the pandemic. This is largely based on their knowledge of court closures, leading to an assumption that the entire legal industry was shut down. 

Many law firms still operate with pen and paper time and billing systems, but that's a recipe for losing money. Of course, there's no time like the present to change your ways and recapture more of the money you make. 

With in-office work still now a very disjointed proposition for law firms, attorneys continue to struggle with managing a distributed workforce—often for the first time. 

As the coronavirus pandemic (hopefully) reaches its end in the United States, one thing has become abundantly clear: that attorneys should be moving as many analog processes as they can to digital processes.

Imagine now a world in which you built the assembly line first.  As a solo or small firm business owner, you too should add the processes before you hire.

There is a subset of DIY legal consumers that want legal information, advice and services, but they don’t want to pay a lawyer for those items, because they think that lawyers are too expensive, and because they think that they can do a passable job on their own. In certain instances, they’re probably right on both counts. 

One consistent bit of trouble lawyers have encountered during this pandemic is adjusting to working from home. Taking an entire work process and moving it to an out of office location for an undetermined amount of time was never going to be easy.  

In a perfect world, law firms would generate, consolidate and convert leads with crushing effectiveness. In the real world, law firm leads often disappear. 

The ongoing pandemic has been rough on everyone, in multiple aspects of life, from the personal to the professional. Lawyers are particularly hard-hit by isolation in even the best of times and suffer higher incidences of depression than the general population. This is especially an issue for solo attorneys.

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