As France redirects its focus away from containing the health crisis of COVID-19 and toward managing the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, law firms are also pivoting to refocus their client advice for the post-crisis era—and many of them are applying the lessons to their own operations as well, managing partners say.

Gide, a leading French firm, has launched “Gide Rebound,” an extension of the firm’s COVID task force team approach “to work on the consequences of the crisis on corporate life” with clients, according to a statement from the firm.