The Legal Assistants of Tomorrow Might Not Look Like Assistants at All
As lawyers get more comfortable with administrative tasks—a process accelerated by remote work—law firms are reassessing the role of legal assistants. And the changes might be drastic.
March 31, 2021 at 12:30 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
As COVID-19 disrupted law offices across the world over the past year, attorneys learned to work in a new way: on Zoom calls, in Slack and Microsoft Teams chats and, crucially, with spouses, children and pets as co-workers instead of legal secretaries and law librarians. And, because Fido isn't particularly adept at data entry, many lawyers also found their plates full with administrative tasks that used to be handled by others.
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