Starting right before the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, new general counsel Smitha Mortis said she was just getting her bearings as the first and only lawyer at Branch Messenger Inc., a mobile payment app startup based in Minneapolis that provides fintech tools to the hourly worker.

Mortis assumed her role in December before the Christmas holiday, she said, but Branch made an official announcement about her joining the company last week. Now manning the one-person legal team remotely in Washington, D.C., Mortis said she plans to travel to Minneapolis for work once the pandemic ends. Branch has 77 employees who are all working remotely.

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