Extract from Victoria Hudgins’ article “Legal Technologists Could Face ‘Summer of Contract Work’ Due to COVID-19”
As-needed, part-time hiring of legal technologists may become the new norm as law firms balance tighter budgets and let go of full-time staff.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, law firms are slashing and furloughing their staff employees and freezing lawyers’ salaries as economic uncertainty grips the global economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Information technology staff, e-discovery experts, litigation support staff and other legal technologist roles aren’t necessarily at the top of the chopping block, said TRU Staffing Partners CEO and founder Jared Coseglia.
