For Large Firm Mergers, the Pandemic Put Compatibility to the Test
Tom Cole, managing partner of Troutman Pepper, and Steve Lewis, chair of Troutman Pepper, were quoted in the December 11, 2020 American Lawyer article, " For Large Firm Mergers, the Pandemic Put Compatibility to the Test."
"We decided it would be too heavy a lift, too much for our folks to do everything that needed to be done when they were learning to work remotely almost exclusively for the first time in their careers," Troutman Pepper managing partner Thomas Cole said. "But it turned out we really could do this during a pandemic."
"We've got a large IT group that needed to pull off the combination of the two systems. They were going to be working from home and we weren't sure if you can combine all that technology," firm chair Steve Lewis said. "We thought, let's take a pause just to make sure that when we come together, we're confident it's going to work, and our people are going to see it as effortlessly as possible."