The legal industry, like most of corporate America, has had to embrace new technologies and methods to keep their businesses running amid COVID-19. Now, as we begin to overcome the crisis, businesses and their in-house legal departments are looking for ways to bring successful pandemic techniques into a post-pandemic world.

The widespread use of technology tools—namely video conferencing software—to communicate and facilitate collaboration among dispersed teams represents a dramatic change in how we work. The technology will no doubt persist due to the pandemic-driven acceleration of the shift to remote work and the digital workplace. That’s a good thing, but it would be a shame if the primary technology-related change to survive the pandemic was more virtual meetings.