T. Andrew Brown, a Rochester attorney who took the reins as president of the New York State Bar Association on Tuesday, pledges to form a blue-ribbon commission to study how the legal profession may adjust to post-pandemic life.

Brown, who will serve a one-year term as the association’s 124th president, said in his president’s message for June that the post-pandemic panel would be charged with identifying “what worked and what did not,” as attorneys, judges and litigants adjusted to a new normal throughout the past year and increasingly turned to virtual proceedings to keep the wheels of justice spinning.