For Legal Services Industry, Europe Travel Ban Brings Little Disruption
A European travel ban intended to curtail the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. may have a limited impact on the ability of legal tech companies and alternative legal service providers to operate internationally. But the real threat could be the toll the virus takes on a business' workforce.
March 16, 2020 at 11:30 AM
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The COVID-19 pandemic is already making its impact felt on the legal tech market. On Friday, a 30-day travel ban preventing foreign visitors out of Europe from entering the U.S. officially went into effect, which means that legal tech companies could find themselves pushing their own internal use of remote collaboration tools or communications platforms to the next level.
Chris DeConti, head of strategy at legal managed services business Factor, said that as of Monday all company employees were told to begin working at home, a total that amounts to about 500 people spread across locations like Belfast, Northern Ireland; London; and Wroclaw, Poland. It was one step on a broader business continuity plan that Factor has been ramping up over the last few weeks as the impact of the coronavirus continued to grow.
"We had to attend to some basics like making sure that everyone had a functioning laptop and just a little bit of housekeeping, but we had this business continuity plan in place and this is probably the most thorough test of it or real life application of it," DeConti said.
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