This past November, Buffalo was fortunate to host the Court of Appeals for the first time since 2005. As I sat observing questioning from the outstanding jurists on our state's highest court – and enjoying the arguments in which I was not required to make any decision—I could not help but reflect that three years ago this type of historic visit seemed unthinkable.  Although today we are already defining ourselves as living in a post-pandemic world—or perhaps more accurately, we would like to stop discussing the world in relation to the pandemic—we are still feeling the reverberations of that difficult time.