After more than three years in a Buddhist retreat almost entirely cut off from the outside world, Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman Miami partner Anthony "Tony" Recio is back.

And of the "several little surprises" to which he returned—a global pandemic—takes the cake.

"No one expected this," Recio said. "But in some ways, I guess I jumped from one socially distanced setting to another."