The world is full of divides. There are socio-economic divides, cultural divides, religious divides and political divides. There are divides of every type.

In the legal community, there are divides that separate midsize and large firms from solo and small firms. During this COVID-19 pandemic, the economic parameters of that divide are even more distinct. For example, I sit on a board of a legal magazine, where 13 of the 18 board members have job assurance. In other words, when the pandemic ends, 13 of my colleagues know that they will be able to return to their offices and will have suffered none or minimal economic hardship. As a result, those board members are able to devote part of the quarantine period to arguing in emails about irrelevant minutiae, while five of us must focus on how to pay our staff and ourselves until, we hope, the situation returns to “normal.”

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