Legal Roundtable.

• Author: Bicknell, Lindsay
• Position: ROUNDTABLE

This month, Utah Business partnered with Kunzler Bean & Adamson to host a roundtable event featuring Utah's legal leaders speaking on court backlogs, the efficiency of legal tech, and navigating the law through COVID-19. Moderated by Jeremy Adamson, founding partner of Kunzler Bean & Adamson's litigation group, here are a few highlights from the event.

Clients, results & accolades

(in that order)

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What arc some of the biggest challenges your firms faced during COVID-19?

Jeffrey Handy | Shareholder | Babcock Scott & Babcock, PC

As the pandemic began we certainly had concerns as far as what this might mean for our respective clients, as they looked at what restrictions might mean for their businesses. Construction in Utah was an essential business, so work continued for them. And as you look around town, you can see construction has been going full force in spite of the pandemic. But there have been challenges that have come up. The price of lumber, concrete, and plumbing materials has all been skyrocketing and that's adjusted how our clients have had to approach bidding and performing a job because these situations are creating some instability and new circumstances.

Brian A. Lebrecht | President, Director, & Shareholder | Clyde Snow

The capital markets have continued to be strong. It's created opportunities for well-funded organizations and funds to go out into the marketplace and do acquisitions. That activity has been high. Good business owners who have quickly learned to adapt and were agile really took advantage of that. So the challenge has been closing transactions remotely, right? People were literally at kitchen tables when we used to be at conference room tables with large amounts of documents, so trying to get things signed and scanned and things like that have been a bit of a challenge.

Wade Budge | Attorney | Snell & Wilmer

The real estate market has been so hot that we've had to just throw as many resources as we can to meet the demand. I don't think...