(Image via Getty)
Everyone is more forgiving about background noise on conference calls. I used to have a quick trigger finger for the mute button, and that seems a lot less necessary now. Clients have been tremendously patient about hearing my 2-year-old in the background.
— Michael Williams, a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis, commenting on his unique work-from-home situation during the coronavirus outbreak. Williams has 11 children, ages 2 to 20, and they all do work together around the same dining room table. “The silver lining of the COVID-19 shutdown is that we eat three meals a day together now,” he says.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.