Despite two years of disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, Baer has achieved remarkable successes in the areas of client service, business and pipeline development, recruitment and revenue. The group’s performance is the result, in part, of two critical innovations that Baer initially conceived at his boutique firm and then implemented at Cozen O’Connor.

The first is an intensive, hands-on training program for new attorneys. This initial “drinking from a firehose phase,” as he calls it, presents trainees with a curated reading list of regulations and statutes, differing takes on core technology and privacy-related agreements, and case studies. Andy leads seminars to deeply analyze and discuss those readings from a range of perspectives, and conducts trainings on the relevant technologies themselves, which is critical to understanding risk profiles. The second phase has trainees engage in role plays with senior counsel and participate in real-life negotiations. The key to the whole program is direct, intensive work with veteran attorneys.