Despite challenges that everyone in the legal space has endured amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the managing partner-elect at Connecticut-based Murtha Cullina says he’s optimistic about the industry’s outlook for 2021.

Intellectual property attorney Andy I. Corea, chair of Murtha Cullina’s business and finance department, will take over for the outgoing and term-limited Jennifer Morgan DelMonico next Jan. 1. The transition will cap off a year of continuous and unprecedented change but also a string of successes, he said, that have kept the firm healthy and busy.