Well after another rather turbulent year dealing the pandemic, it appears that we may finally be rounding the corner. While this has been a trying time for everyone at many levels, as we have mentioned in prior newsletters the issue has resulted in a significant slowdown in judicial activity due to social distancing requirements and other health considerations. One of the main problems was the net effect of jury trials being non-existent the last year and a half and discovery processes generally slower than normal due to juggling around the restrictions. The courts are now starting to open back up and we are optimistic that the judiciary will start running at a normal pace again next year. In the meantime, much of our work on caseloads has been remote through electronic communications, Zoom conferencing and teleconferencing.
Throughout the pandemic, our firm has continued to work full time on all of our cases. For some period, a lot of this was done remotely, but since the summer of 2021 we have generally returned to working at our office locations with CDC recommended safety practices.
As with other businesses, we continue to pursue new and better ways of handling our responsibilities. My firm was one of the first to work with the judiciary 20 years ago to help create electronic filing and storage processes to significantly improve efficiency of handling cases and communicating with other parties. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of utilizing technology to enhance our work product and increase convenience to clients. Rarely do we even need clients to make arrangements for in office appointments these days. We handle most of the paperwork online and were one of the first firms in the country to initiate online legal contracting over a decade ago.
What we are initiating now is another enhancement to our communications with our clients on your legal matter. While the firm handles a wide range of cases on the plaintiff side with individuals and the business community, most of our cases are linked to multi-district consolidation orders as they involve many clients with the same legal issues. This resulted in the need to create a quarterly newsletter which hits the high points on each docket we are actively working in. To supplement that update, the firm is now initiating a process to send out periodic videos from our legal team to you via email so you can get firsthand updates on anything substantive taking place on a case you are involved in. Our firm has a very experienced in house IT department and communications department to assist our lawyers in sending out video updates to supplement the periodic newsletters. We hope that these videos and the FAQs we have generated online for our various caseloads helps keep you sufficiently informed about what is going on. Cases that are consolidated by the Courts involving a large number of similar claimants in the pharmaceutical arena, bankruptcy arena, plant explosions, asbestos exposure and other cases that are generically referred to as “mass torts” are typically transferred to a single judge to handle through the discovery process. This is more efficient but also causes delays due to the sheer numerosity of claims and lawyers involved. Please continue to understand that we are always doing what we can on our end to get the matters pushed to a satisfactory conclusion, and our firm doesn’t get paid until you get paid, so we are always as interested in as swift and successful outcome as possible.
If you need to contact with our firm, please continue using the email addresses and phone numbers we provided before, so you can reach the litigation group working on your case, or you may contact us through our website www.bcoonlaw.com. We will respond as soon as we can.
These have been trying times for everyone, but it looks like we are getting past the worst of it. And again, thank you for entrusting your legal matter with our firm.
Throughout the pandemic, our firm has continued to work full time on all of our cases. For some period, a lot of this was done remotely, but since the summer of 2021 we have generally returned to working at our office locations with CDC recommended safety practices.
As with other businesses, we continue to pursue new and better ways of handling our responsibilities. My firm was one of the first to work with the judiciary 20 years ago to help create electronic filing and storage processes to significantly improve efficiency of handling cases and communicating with other parties. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of utilizing technology to enhance our work product and increase convenience to clients. Rarely do we even need clients to make arrangements for in office appointments these days. We handle most of the paperwork online and were one of the first firms in the country to initiate online legal contracting over a decade ago.
What we are initiating now is another enhancement to our communications with our clients on your legal matter. While the firm handles a wide range of cases on the plaintiff side with individuals and the business community, most of our cases are linked to multi-district consolidation orders as they involve many clients with the same legal issues. This resulted in the need to create a quarterly newsletter which hits the high points on each docket we are actively working in. To supplement that update, the firm is now initiating a process to send out periodic videos from our legal team to you via email so you can get firsthand updates on anything substantive taking place on a case you are involved in. Our firm has a very experienced in house IT department and communications department to assist our lawyers in sending out video updates to supplement the periodic newsletters. We hope that these videos and the FAQs we have generated online for our various caseloads helps keep you sufficiently informed about what is going on. Cases that are consolidated by the Courts involving a large number of similar claimants in the pharmaceutical arena, bankruptcy arena, plant explosions, asbestos exposure and other cases that are generically referred to as “mass torts” are typically transferred to a single judge to handle through the discovery process. This is more efficient but also causes delays due to the sheer numerosity of claims and lawyers involved. Please continue to understand that we are always doing what we can on our end to get the matters pushed to a satisfactory conclusion, and our firm doesn’t get paid until you get paid, so we are always as interested in as swift and successful outcome as possible.
If you need to contact with our firm, please continue using the email addresses and phone numbers we provided before, so you can reach the litigation group working on your case, or you may contact us through our website www.bcoonlaw.com. We will respond as soon as we can.
These have been trying times for everyone, but it looks like we are getting past the worst of it. And again, thank you for entrusting your legal matter with our firm.