HOW GENERAL COUNSEL CAN EMPOWER THEMSELVES IN THE POST-COVID LEGAL SECTOR.

Last year, the 2019 PwC 2019 Law Firms’ Survey was given the theme: ‘Adapting to a new world’. In that, 80% of the UK’s top law firms viewed technological change as the key challenge to be addressed over the next 2-3 years.

But even the eerily prophetic work of PwC could never have predicted a global scenario like the one we have found ourselves in. The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted countless businesses, altering lives and upending the economy in a way that has never before been seen during times of peace.

Countless articles, reports, blogs and social media influencers outlined their 2020 vision statements for eDiscovery, but none could have possibly foreseen such far-reaching impact. But has the global outbreak of COVID-19 really created any new problems for those in the legal space, or simply taken away the ability of its existing problems to go on unaddressed?