Every so often, practitioners should probably reevaluate where the environmental legal market is going. That reevaluation helps direct all sorts of practice and personal development efforts. Now, in the middle of the shock created by the COVID-19 response, might be one of those times for reevaluation. When we all get back to the office, what will we be doing?

Now I am sufficiently gray, and probably adequately old, to pretend to profound wisdom on this score. But events affect different lawyers’ practices differently, and this pandemic is not very like anything that has happened during the careers of anyone now practicing. So, what follows are just some impressions to trigger each lawyer’s own thinking.

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