What Meeting Means Now: Video Conferencing Is An Essential Law Firm Technology
As ‘social distancing’ has now become part of the American lexicon, it will never be ‘business as usual’ again for law firms. Everything you did in-perso n before, you now need to be able to do virtually, as well. Since law firms have thrived on traditional business models, built on handshakes and in-person meetings, that can be a difficult conversion; but, it’s not impossible. Even when in-person meetings are off the table, it’s important to be able to talk with people, to see their faces, to make a visceral connection with them . In some cases, like for client intake, you may use meetings as a way to authenticate identity. It may be how you cement referral relationships. Maybe you just prefer visual meetings to the phone or email. Whatever the case, for now, and potentially more often moving forward, it may make sense to convert all or some of those meetings to video conferences....