From Law Week Colorado
Offices have flexibility to continue remote work, but details are still up in the air about specifics
Even as state and local mandates to prevent the coronavirus’s spread gradually ease, law firms are evaluating how to return to work. Colorado designated legal services as essential businesses, but firms have found the ability to meet with clients and hold events such as CLEs remotely gives them some flexibility to continue working remotely past the end date of stay-at-home orders.
Jay Kamlet, the founder of the shared office space LawBank and a solo real estate lawyer, has kept the office open and left it up to the individual attorneys who use it to decide whether to keep coming in.
He estimated about 95% of LawBank’s members have chosen not to come in but added he hasn’t had anyone decide not to renew their membership, some of which are month to month.
“I’m pleased, one, for their sake, and then also for the strength of this community; they feel like they’re getting something still out of this,” he said. “The fact that I’ve got people who are reaffirming the community we’re building is very comforting to me.”
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